Anthony Zambelli

Bio

During the last 25 years, Mr. Zambelli has dedicated his professional career to advising business owners and principals in planning business strategy and executing acquisitions, divestitures and financing transaction activities. He has provided counsel and transaction support services in connection with more than 120 acquisitions, divestitures and financings involving small and middle-market size companies located throughout the United States, North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition to his advisory work, Mr. Zambelli has been a principal investor in more than fifteen privately-held companies in which he actively participates as an advisor on strategy, growth and finance matters. Prior to forming Seneca Partners, LLC, Mr. Zambelli founded and served as Managing Director of Manchester Capital LLC, an investment and merchant banking firm specializing in middle- market size merger, acquisition and corporate finance transactions. He has expertise in the formation and growth of ethnic minority owned companies as well as assisting business executives to navigate through the process of management buyout transactions. Before founding Manchester Capital in 1998, Mr. Zambelli established and led the Great Lakes Region Corporate Finance practice for Deloitte & Touche LLP. Under his leadership, the practice grew to the second largest Corporate Finance practice within the firm and achieved record profitability. Before joining Deloitte & Touche, Mr. Zambelli spent seven years as Senior Manager of the Midwest Corporate Finance practice of PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLC focusing on M&A transactions. Prior to PWC, he spent three years advising on acquisition and recapitalization transactions with Tunstall Consulting, a regional investment banking firm located in the Southeast U.S. Before his experience in Corporate Finance, Mr. Zambelli was with KPMG Peat Marwick for more than three years as a financial consultant and with Michigan National Corporation for one year as Manager, gaining a broad range of accounting, finance and SEC reporting knowledge. Mr. Zambelli serves on the Board of Directors of a number of privately held companies providing counsel on business strategy, finance and growth. These companies serve a variety of business sectors within the manufacturing, service and technology industries. In addition, he served from 1999 to 2009 on the Board of Trustees as Vice Chairman and Treasurer for GreenPath, Inc., a non-profit organization that is one of the country’s largest and most successful debt management, bankruptcy and credit counseling agencies serving consumers throughout the U.S. Mr. Zambelli also served from 2007 to 2009 as a Member of the State of Michigan Pre Seed Fund Investment Committee, representing the Oakland University and Oakland County, Michigan Smart Zone. Mr. Zambelli graduated from the Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the states of Michigan and Florida (inactive status) and he is also a member of the Association for Corporate Growth. In addition, to his professional responsibilities, Mr. Zambelli is a State Certified Volunteer Firefighter for Bloomfield Village (Bloomfield Township), Michigan.