Donato Saponara

Donato Saponara

Allianz Real Estate

Donato Saponara is the Head of Transaction for West Europe Region and Country Head of Italy in the Allianz Real Estate Group. He is responsible of pursuing a multibillion acquisition strategy in the West Europe Region (France, Benelux, Iberia and Italy) and overseeing of the portfolio owned in Italy by Allianz Investors including all main asset classes (office, retail, hospitality).

Mr. Saponara is leading several Board and Advisory Committee for Allianz and is sitting in Senior Management Committees in the Western Europe Region.

Prior to joining Allianz in 2014, Mr Saponara spent 14 year in Morgan Stanley acting as Director Co-heading the Italian Investing team, leading billions of acquisition, sale and refinancing deals.
Mr Saponara graduated magna cum laude from Bocconi University in Milan.