Raffaele Savi

Managing Director, Global Head of BlackRock Systematic and Co-CIO and Co-Head of Systematic Active Equities (SAE)  

Raffaele Savi, Senior Managing Director, is Global Head of BlackRock Systematic (BSYS).

He is also Co-CIO and Co-Head of Systematic Active Equities (SAE). Mr. Savi is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee and its Investment Sub Committee, Talent Sub Committee, and Aladdin & Technology Sub Committee. Additionally, he is the GEC Executive Sponsor for BlackRock's Interfaith, Culture and Allies Network (ICN).

As head of BSYS, Mr. Savi leads the firm’s quantitative investing teams, including fixed income, equity and factor strategies.  In 2006, Mr. Savi joined Barclay's Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009.  At BGI, Mr. Savi was global head of portfolio management for active equities and also served as its head of investments for European active equities. Mr. Savi joined BGI from Capitalia where he held several executive roles in its asset management division between 1998 and 2005.  

His industry experience includes serving as board member and advisor to several pension funds and investment companies. Mr. Savi is a lecturer for the Master of Financial Engineering Program at Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley since 2022. He was Adjunct Professor of Quantitative Finance at the University of Rome from 2002 to 2006. Mr. Savi earned a degree in electronic engineering from the University of Rome in 1997.