25+ years of experience in private equity, financial services, and fintech
Global leader in technology and operations optimization
Expert in operations outsourcing, automation, and AI
New York
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Alberto Corvo is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Financial Services in New York. He leads the firm’s Financial Markets Infrastructure practice. Mr. Corvo brings more than 25 years of global experience and proven results as a CEO, executive manager, and private equity investor in financial services and fintech.
Mr. Corvo has been recognized as a global leader in the field of technology and operations optimization through outsourcing, automation, and AI. As a technology, operations, and risk consultant to top players in the industry, he has overseen, designed, and delivered large operational re-platforming and restructuring projects, focusing on efficiency and cost control through technology, AI, and outsourcing structuring.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Corvo was a Partner at PwC, where he led the Capital Markets Technology and Digital Assets practices. Before PwC, he was the CEO of Motive Labs and a Senior Founding Partner of Motive Partners.
Previously, Mr. Corvo was the Managing Principal at eClerx, the first publicly traded Indian knowledge processing outsourcing company, which experienced a growth of 13 times the share price in three-and-a-half years. During Mr. Corvo’s tenure, eClerx was named the number one business process outsourcing company in financial services, with eight of the top 10 global banks as clients.
Prior to eClerx, Mr. Corvo led Murex’s business development, expanding the business to the largest global banks, large asset managers, hedge funds, global insurance companies, and central banks.
Mr. Corvo earned a master’s degree in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Milano and an MBA from Yale School of Management. He has been published and has spoken extensively on technology and financial markets, and is a fluent speaker of Italian, Spanish, French, and English.
Atomic settlement is moving from experiment to market infrastructure. Whilst banks, asset managers, and market commentators often frame narratives around distributed-ledger settlement as a new product or asset class, its biggest implications are architectural.
Financial institutions do not have a core banking problem. They have a decisioning problem. For decades, banks optimized Systems of Record (SoR) to post transactions with precision and maintain regulatory integrity. That battle has largely been won. What now differentiates institutions is not how accurately they book activity, but how intelligently and quickly they make decisions.
In the second article in our three-part series, we reveal how and why institutions must evolve from traditional environments built to record transactions toward modern, composable ecosystems engineered for intelligence, connectivity, and velocity.
The financial industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the need to evolve from static systems of record to dynamic systems of intelligence, interoperability, and real-time settlement. Read our first article in our three part series.
