Christian Certa joined Invicta Finance in September 2025 and is responsible for Sales and Originations. Before joining Invicta Finance, Christian had a 9-year career with Credit Suisse Aviation & Yacht Finance (last two years UBS group), covering the largest portfolio of the team. Christian originated the largest jet and yacht financing ever done by the bank and was the sales director with the largest volume of financings ever closed in one year (more than 450m USD). Before that Christian had an 11-year career with General Electric (GE). At GE Christian was for 7 years sales director for GE Corporate Aircraft Finance EMEA where he gained extensive aircraft finance & operating leasing and aircraft remarketing experience and was also responsible of the run-off of the European jet portfolio. Previously Christian was heading a branch network at GE Money Bank Switzerland and held roles as sales manager for industrial leasing with GE Capital.
Christian holds a Master degree from Bocconi University Milan and an MBA from RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam. Christian holds the Italian, Swiss and German citizenships and is also fluent in French and English and is conversational in Russian. Christian is an avid sailplane pilot, skier and (average) tennis player and is also a legally certified translator for German and Italian.
