Alfredo Piacentini started out in 1981 in a company specializing in market surveys before joining Lombard Odier & Cie in Geneva in 1985, first as a financial analyst, and then as an expert in the management of funds, mergers and acquisitions, and finally as an institutional asset management expert in London. A founding partner of Banque SYZ & CO SA and member of the Executive Committee, he is in charge of private and centralized asset management, as well as the Oyster funds division where he manages the Oyster Italian Opportunities fund. He is also responsible for the Group's bank in Nassau and vice-chairman of Banca Albertini Syz & C., the Group’s bank in Italy.