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Alberto Bazzana
Verified Expert in Finance
Finance Expert
Alberto has been instrumental in the underwriting, management, and sale of energy and infrastructure assets totaling more than $5 billion. Before moving into banking, he led teams in consulting engagements across nine countries and several sectors. He has an executive MBA from Wharton and worked as part of General Electric's foremost management development programs. Alberto enjoys freelancing as it enables him to work with a diverse clientele.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
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Work Experience
Vice President
MUFG
- Led deal teams to structure and support various acquisitions in the energy sector.
- Trained a team of analysts to support origination and underwriting activities.
- Built an extremely loyal customer base, creating a solid base of recurring business.
Vice President
ING Capital
- Underwrote, managed, and restructured US oil and gas assets.
- Presented monthly and quarterly status updates on each asset and proposed key investment decisions to internal and external stakeholders.
- Built and managed several financial models for internal income and cash projections and investment decisions, such as upsizing, downsizing, and divestitures.
Assistant Vice President
GE Energy Financial Services
- Underwrote, managed, restructured, and sold more than $1 billion of assets located in the U.S., Mexico, Europe (France, Italy, Ireland), and Asia (Turkey, Jordan, Japan)—focusing on the solar, wind, and power sectors of the energy industry.
- Co-led a successful sale of a more than $400 million international portfolio of infrastructure assets—leading the valuation, structuring, closing, and stakeholder management.
- Managed the restructuring—refinancing, management reshuffle, change in strategy—of assets in Southern Europe and supported a successful restructuring of U.S. assets.
- Presented monthly and quarterly status updates on each asset and proposed key investment decisions to internal and external stakeholders.
- Oversaw the day-to-day activities of several assets worth $1.3 billion in Japan, Europe, and the Middle East.
- Built and managed several financial models for internal income and cash projections and investment decisions, such as upsizing, downsizing, and divestitures.
- Led a specially created task force that successfully launched a $300 million solar distributed generation fund.
Manager
GE Corporate
- Led a team to support the financial, IT, and operational integration of a more than $3 billion acquisition with sites across tax jurisdictions in the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, the Netherlands, India, Brazil, and Switzerland.
- Co-led the set up of a multi-million dollar service shop in the Middle East in the form of a joint venture with the local government.
- Performed a bottom-up and top-down global market size analysis for an energy service business to redefine its go-to-market strategy and regional focus areas.
- Built the valuation model for a company in the silicone industry to assess whether structural market changes would result in a potential impairment.
- Completed a financial management program and corporate audit staff, two of GE premier leadership programs for personal and professional growth worldwide recognized for developing leaders through extensive training and practical leadership roles.
Other Experience
Education
Executive MBA Degree in Finance and Strategy
The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA, USA
Master's Degree in Econometrics and Economics
LUISS Guido Carli University - Rome, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Finance
LUISS Guido Carli University - Rome, Italy
Certifications
Energy Risk Professional
GARP: Global Association of Risk Professionals
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