Financial Communication: Roberto Patriarca wins the Professional of the Year Award

On November 14, Roberto Patriarca, CEO at Community, was awarded with the ‘Professional of the Year’ prize in the ‘Finance PR’ category during the awards ceremony of the 10th edition of the Financecommunity Awards, the annual event hosted by financecommunity.it, which celebrates outstanding figures in the Italian financial sector.

The jury, which was made up of industry experts and representatives of leading financial institutions, motivated the choice as follows: Roberto Patriarca has been involved in the most relevant deals for the financial and economic system, supporting entrepreneurs, investors, and managers in creating communications strategies and protecting their reputation. In 2024, he was chosen by Community’s management to serve as the company’s CEO.

The award is a testament to the market’s recognition of the high quality and expertise that Community, a long-standing leader in the communications advisory field, can offer. He has been contributing to the success of the company founded by Auro Palomba for over 20 years, supporting strategically meaningful national and international clients. As of this year, he also holds the role of CEO, alongside Managing Partner Marco Rubino, Senior Partner Giuliano Pasini, and Partners Pasquo Cicchini and Giovanna Benvenuti, to jointly lay out the company’s growth path. In 2022, Community was among the co-founders of Excellera Advisory Group, Italy’s biggest corporate affairs advisory firm.

This award presented to Roberto Patriarca is a continuation of the one earned last year by Community as best financial communications team, a prize the firm has won five times since the launch of the Financecommunity Awards in 2016.

‘Our industry’s ability to help customers forge trust-based and transparent relationships is now facing increasingly, ever-intricate challenges. Social shifts and the AI-promised revolution will make it vital to foster increasingly sophisticated listening skills to be able to design effective communication strategies,’ said Roberto Patriarca, CEO at Community. ‘This award is a tribute to the amazing team at Community, because it is the fruit of our working method, which is based on continuous exchange and sharing of successes. It is a way of working and practicing our job that leads us to push communications boundaries to provide increasingly innovative, integrated, and data-driven solutions. I would like to thank the jury and the team at Community for this award, as we will be pursuing excellence in order to face future challenges in the best way possible.’

With offices in Milan, Rome and Treviso, and a network of partnerships stretching into several other countries, Community is a multidisciplinary group employing over 70 professionals and working in the creation, management, and defense of the reputation of companies and financial institutions. Founded in 2001, today it is part of the Excellera Advisory Group. The company has gradually widened its range of services, aiming to establish its own distinctive approach in each of them: from traditional and digital communications, public speaking and media training skills to the ability to draft full tailor-made sociology surveys and market research.