Maria Elena Gatt Floridia

Maria Elena Gatt Floridia is a Managing Director at HSBC Global Private Banking in London, where she is part of the financial markets division within the bank's special segments team. She focuses on financial services professionals, including private equity professionals, hedge fund managers, and other sophisticated investors with a minimum of £4 million in investable assets.

She has built one of HSBC's larger HNW client portfolios through consistent year-on-year growth, with colleagues attributing her success to thorough preparation, hard work, and a breadth of offering spanning investment management, structuring, succession planning, philanthropy, and bespoke lending. She describes her role as being the steady presence clients reach out to before they act, particularly during market volatility.