Roberto Ippolito

Roberto Ippolito is Managing Partner of a leading hybrid capital fund (private equity and private debt) and Professor of Principal Investing at Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi. Roberto has 20 years’ private capital experience in sourcing, structuring and investing in all parts of the capital structure (senior debt, junior debt and private equity) of Italian SMEs across several industries and 3 years’ management consulting experience (with a focus on business due diligence and performance improvement). Former Head of Leverage Finance at General Electric Capital Italy, Roberto has held managerial roles at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, DAM Capital (Anschutz Group), Bain & Co. He also held junior positions at Goldman Sachs (Merchant and Investment Banking) and Istituto Mobiliare Italiano (Merchant Banking), Roberto is a Fulbright scholar, a British Chevening scholar, one of the Twenty Leaders for the 21st Century according to the British Council, one of the Emerging Young Leaders according to the Council for US-Italy. He has written academic and popular articles and books on economics and finance (with a focus on private equity and private debt) and teaches to various Executive courses and Masters at the London Stock Exchange Academy, IFF, ESCP and 24 Ore Business School.  Roberto received a MBA from the University of Chicago, a MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and a Summa Cum Laude BSc in Business from LUISS University. He is a CFA (Dottore Commercialista) and CPA (Revisore Ufficiale dei Conti) in Italy and FSA registered in UK.