Bio

Valentina is a Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director at BDO Capital Advisors with more than 23 years of investment banking experience. Valentina advises privately-held and family-owned businesses with transaction structures including leveraged recapitalizations, shareholder transitions, management buy-outs, exclusive sales, corporate divestitures and equity financings. Valentina has closed transactions in a variety of industry segments including Business Services and TMT, Manufacturing & Distribution, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Consumer & Retail. Geographically, Valentina is focused on managing BDO Capital’s relationships and clientele along the Eastern Seaboard. Prior to joining BDO Capital in 2002, Valentina served as a Director at Andersen Global Corporate Finance, LLP, a middle market investment banking firm. While at Andersen, Valentina was responsible for developing the firm’s investment banking Products Group where she had a particular focus on clients within the Manufacturing and Distribution sectors. In addition, Valentina was a key architect in the firm's Technology Group, developing it’s go to market strategy and contributing to the firm's growth across a variety of technology sectors including software, hardware and IT services.