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Mr. Scozzafava has over 14 years experience in venture capital and leveraged buyout investing and has extensive capital markets experience. Most recently Mr. Scozzafava founded and served as CFO of WiseBuys Stores, Inc., a chain of retail stores throughout northern New York with sales of over $30 million since inception. Prior to founding his own company, Mr. Scozzafava was a Director of Prudential’s Merchant Banking Group where he helped find, evaluate, negotiate, and structure leveraged buyouts of companies in industries that included telecommunications, media, business services, and manufacturing industries. Mr. Scozzafava also held a senior management position at Prudential’s employee limited partnerships where he completed approximately 40 venture capital and LBO investments. Mr. Scozzafava was responsible for the Funds’ public market securities acquisitions and dispositions, which included over $30 million in transactions with profits approaching $15 million that helped generate overall Fund returns in excess of 40% per year during this period.
Prior to joining Prudential, Mr. Scozzafava was member of Lehman Brothers' Merchant Banking Group, where he analyzed leveraged buyout and growth equity investments across various industries. Mr. Scozzafava began his career with GE Capital Corporation, where he completed the company’s Financial Management Program while serving various analyst positions with GE Investments, GECC Vendor Financial Services, and Kidder Peabody.
In March 2006, New York State Governor George E. Pataki appointed Mr. Scozzafava to the Board of Trustees to the New York State Power Authority ("NYPA"). Mr. Scozzafava also sits on the Governance and Audit Committees of NYPA, whose mission is to provide clean, economical and reliable energy while promoting energy efficiency and innovation. NYPA had revenues of over $2.5 billion in 2005.
Mr. Scozzafava received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude with concentrations in economics and mathematics with Honors distinction from Hamilton College in 1992. During this period Mr. Scozzafava held capital market positions at Tucker Anthony and Merrill Lynch in New York City. | 