Manuela Sperandeo, Managing Director, is Co-Head of European iShares, responsible for leading the European iShares franchise, driving the growth of indexing and UCITS ETF adoption. She co-chairs the iShares EMEA Executive Committee and is member of the BlackRock European Operating Committee and the BlackRock European Client Committee. Manuela also serves on the board of iShares PLC.
Manuela has held a number of roles at BlackRock before, including Head of Europe & Middle East iShares Product, responsible for driving the product innovation agenda for the index business, Global Head of Sustainable Indexing, and Head of Factor, Sustainable and Thematic ETFs for the EMEA region. Manuela joined Blackrock in April 2014 from Barclays, where she spent 6 years working across several roles in the Investment Bank and the Wealth and Investment Management divisions. Most recently she was a Director at Barclays Capital Fund Solutions, an asset management business specializing in absolute return and alternative indexation strategies. Prior to Barclays she worked as an investment analyst at Alpstar, a credit hedge fund and as a Structured Derivatives Sales at Credit Suisse.
Manuela has been a founding board member of the European chapter of Women in ETFs and has been recognised among the "Top 50 Most Influential Women in Sustainable Investing" and Investment Week "Investment Woman of the Year (Large Firms). Manuela earned an Economics Degree, with distinction, from Bocconi University in Milan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
