Manuela Sperandeo

Manuela Sperandeo, Managing Director, is Head of EMEA iShares Product. She’s responsible for driving the product innovation agenda for the ETF and indexing business, ensuring it continues to answer investor demand and emerging industry trends.

Previously, Manuela was Global Head of Sustainable Indexing. In this role she led the sustainable strategy for BlackRock’s indexing business, including product innovation, research and client engagement. Prior to this, she was the EMEA Head of Factor, Sustainable and Thematic ETFs.

Manuela joined Blackrock in April 2014 from Barclays, where she spent six years working across several roles in the Investment Bank, Wealth and Investment Management divisions. She was a Director at Barclays Capital Fund Solutions, an asset management business specializing in absolute return and alternative indexation strategies and before this, she was a member of the Product Development team focusing on investment products for Barclays private and retail clients. Before her time at Barclays, she worked as an investment analyst at Alpstar, a credit hedge fund and in Structured Derivatives Sales at Credit Suisse.

Manuela was a founding board member of the European chapter of Women in ETFs. She earned an Economics Degree, with distinction, from Bocconi University in Milan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Named by Financial News as one of the top 50 most influential figures in sustainable finance, 2023