ROBERT RICCIARDELLI, STRATEGIC FINANCE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER, has over twenty-five years of finance and investment experience. Previously, he was a managing partner of Turnstone Capital and a founder of RLR Ventures, both New York City-based financial advisory and private equity firms.
In his banking career, Robert has worked as an advisor to international infrastructure projects and as an executive at Standard Chartered Bank and ANZ Investment Bank, where he was an associate in the structured trade finance group and a manager in the project finance group, respectively. He has also served as founder and CEO for startups in health technology and renewable energy.
In the project finance field, Robert has handled the financing of infrastructure projects such as power plants, heavy industrial manufacturing facilities, mining, and oil & gas assets. Subsequently, at ANZ he served as a senior manager in the media & telecommunications group that financed cellular telephone networks, multiplex cinemas, and other media businesses.
Robert was a Managing Director of Cedar Lane Asset Management, the former asset manager of the Cedar Lane Entertainment Fund, a Cayman Islands-based entertainment lending fund in the media and entertainment space. Robert received a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth.