Featured Speaker

Brian Pitera

Brian is a Managing Director in Capstone’s Financial Advisory Services (FAS) practice.With more than 15 years of professional leadership experience, Brian’s expertise lies indriving performance improvement transformations, managing mergers and acquisitions,and providing C-level interim management advisory services to businesses in transition.
Brian has a proven record of success on more than 400 projects, providing strategicguidance to Private Equity firms, Family Offices, and both private and public companiesduring significant events, including strategic transformations, transaction diligence, andpre/post close integrations or separations. Industry and sector experience includesHealthcare; Medical Devices; Pharmaceuticals & OTC; Industrials; Food & Beverage;Consumer Packaged Goods; Luxury Goods & Specialty Apparel; and Retail, Wholesale &eCommerce.
Before joining Capstone Partners Brian held a number of leadership positions includingco-founding Blossom Growth Partners, a management consulting firm dedicated to mid-market businesses in high-growth phases. In this role, he played a key part in stabilizingbusiness performance and realigning processes for scalable growth. Brian has also servedas a Partner at Grant Thornton, where he led the Transaction Advisory Services (TAS)Operations and Performance Improvement practice. Additionally, he spent time atATKearney and Alvarez & Marsal, advising Private Equity Firms through M&A andPerformance Improvement EBITDA acceleration. Over the past 15 years, Brian has beenextensively involved in client expansions around the world, navigating organic growth andacquisitions for clients in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.