Cristiano Vinattieri
Director
Cristiano Vinattieri is a Director in the Growth Capital Advisory team in London. Cristiano provides a broad range of advisory services to private fast-growing companies in need of capital solutions. Cristiano worked on the majority of the team's critical technologies projects advising companies and governments across semiconductor, AI, next gen-compute, robotics, energy resilience, space and defence.
Prior to joining Lazard, Cristiano was first an equity research associate at Numis and then joined the Venture Broking team where he helped scale the team both on the technology and business angle. Cristiano started his career in New Jersey at a pharmaceutical consultancy as an analyst where he worked on cross-border advisory, he then moved to London to join a FinTech in its business development department.
Cristiano graduated magna cum laude from Rider University with a bachelor of science in business administration and a double major in Finance and International Business. He speaks Italian, fluently.
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