Bio

Lina Russo is a Managing Director and the Head of Strategy and Capital Formation of Mill Point Capital. Prior to joining Mill Point in 2023, Ms. Russo was a co-founder and Partner at Acalyx Advisors, where she managed all aspects of private equity fundraisings, including the identification of high conviction General Partners, the development of marketing strategies and the successful execution of these fundraisings. In addition, Ms. Russo worked closely with a broad set of Limited Partners to facilitate their investment processes and decision-making. Prior to co-founding Acalyx, Ms. Russo was a Partner with MVision, where she ran multiple deal teams raising funds in North America and Latin America. Prior to joining MVision, Ms. Russo was with Merrill Lynch’s private equity funds group, which focused on raising institutional capital for private funds. She also spent several years in Merrill Lynch’s principal investing group, which made direct investments into private companies, and in the investment banking group, providing M&A advisory and raising public debt and equity for telecommunication service providers. Ms. Russo is a magna cum laude graduate of New York University, where she earned a B.S., with a double major in Finance and Economics and a minor in Political Science. In addition, she earned an M.B.A. from Columbia University as a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.