Robert Bertagna

I currently run Minerva Ventures LLC, which is my family office. https://www.linkedin.com/company/70915172/admin/manage-admins/ . Through Minerva, I provide a combination of strategic advice and equity capital to start-ups and other high growth ventures. Given my professional and philanthropic background, I have expertise in financial services, private equity, education, infrastructure and in industrial-related end markets. Before establishing Minerva Ventures LLC in 2021, I was for my entire career an investment banker that advised, and managed groups of bankers that advised, CEOs, CFOs and Boards on the full range of value-enhancing corporate strategic transaction alternatives such as mergers, acquisitions, separations and recapitalizations. The advice included not only providing assessments of the most attractive value-enhancing alternatives, but also the full scope of advice on tactically executing and then negotiating the strategic transactions to produce the optimal result. My principal philanthropic pursuit is supporting the education of young people. I feel strongly that in this country we need to provide every child the chance to live the American Dream through the opportunity for a high-quality education. Furthermore, I am heavily engaged in higher education, particularly in supporting the transformative experience of a liberal arts education.