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Andreas Dal Santo is a Partner of BlueVal in New York. Andreas has more than twenty years of experience in financial services, including a combination of business valuation, investments, and management consulting.
Before joining BlueVal, Andreas managed more than $1 billion in European, North American, and Emerging Market assets for Arca Fondi, a $35 billion investment manager based in Milan. As Head of Global Emerging Markets for Arca, Andreas invested in more than 20 countries, gaining extensive experience in business modeling and valuation across a broad range of sectors. Before that, he was a specialist in North American Tech, Media, and Telecom investments for Arca, which he followed from the Y2K bubble through the 2008 recession.
As a Consulting Director of Research for the New York representative office of the Bank of Italy, Andreas has insight into how monetary and fiscal policy, trade, interest, and currency exchange rates affect the environment for business valuation and for managements’ strategic decisions.
Andreas couples his experience in business valuation, investments and business analysis with a deep passion for mathematics and computer science that has led him to venture into quantitative finance, business innovation, and Fintech. Andreas brings significant insights into emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, to his valuation work.
Andreas is serving as a member of the Artificial Intelligence in Forensic and Valuation Services Workgroup of the AICPA. He is currently a member of the board of the CFA Society Italy and has served as a member of the board of the CFA Society of New York.
Andreas is the co-author of Chapter 4: “Seed Stage Valuation and the Venture Capital Method” in Early Stage Valuation: A Fair Value Perspective (Wiley: 2020). He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), holds the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) credential of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management (ARPM) Certification.
- CFA Institute – Charter Financial Analyst
- AICPA – Accredited in Business Valuation
- AICPA – Member of the AICPA Forensic and Valuation Service Artificial Intelligence Workgroup
- ARPM – Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management Certificate
- CFA Institute Most Innovative Project Award for the invention of the Fund Management Challenge (ed-tech).
- CFA Research Challenge – Mentor
- CFA Research Challenge – Regional semi-final panel judge
- CFA Research Challenge – Regional quarterly and semi-final panel judge
- CFA Research Challenge – EMEA semi-final panel judge
- Former Director at-large of the Board of the CFA Society of New York
- Current Member of the Board of the CFA Society Italy
- Former Secretary of the Board of the CFA Society Italy
- Lecturer on financial topics in European and US universities
Books
Chapter 4: Seed Stage Valuation and the Venture Capital Method in Puca A., Early Stage Valuation. Wiley Finance 2020
Insights
- Member of the CFA Institute.
- Member of the CFA Society Italy (Board Member).
- Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
- Member of the AICPA Forensic and Valuation Service Artificial Intelligence Workgroup.
- Master of Science in Economics and Finance with honors, University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice, Italy.
- Columbia Business School Executive Education – Certificate in Mergers and Acquisitions.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Certificate of Completion of the Future of Commerce Program
