Richard K. Ronzetti is the Retired Partner and Global Head of Investment Analysis and Asset Management at Marathon Asset Management, an alternative investment firm, where he served on the Investment, Risk Management and Executive Committees of the firm and worked in the development of investment programs for institutional investors in the U.S. and worldwide.
At Marathon, Mr. Ronzetti oversaw investments in leveraged loans, securities, portfolios and private equity investments in restructurings and stressed situations across the corporate, bank and mortgage sectors in the U.S. distressed cycle of the early 2000s while leading the buildout of research and asset management groups. In several Latin American and European countries, Mr. Ronzetti led several of the first restructuring investments under new bankruptcy regimes in the media, utility, banking and real estate industries. In conjunction with the regulatory overhaul of the European banking sector from 2012-2016, he worked in building out the firm’s strategy and team for the acquisition and structuring of real estate and corporate loans. Blackstone made a strategic investment in Marathon in 2016.Mr. Ronzetti has been advising ventures on the formation of global dislocated credit investing funds and the formation of fintec-vehicles for the provisioning of emerging market sme/corporate financing in recent years.
Prior to his work at Marathon, Mr. Ronzetti worked in global investment banking with Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney; high yield and commercial mortgage securitization with Drexel Burnham; and private equity and structured investments with IFINT-USA, an investment office of the Agnelli family, the controlling shareholder of FIAT Worldwide.
Mr. Ronzetti worked with leaders of the Becker Friedman Institute to formulate the Ronzetti Labor Markets Initiative, which seeks to contribute to the achievement of broadly-disseminated gains from economic growth through rigorous research in labor economics. Mr. Ronzetti is a Founding Partner with his wife Elise in the Office of Personal and Career Development at Wake Forest University, which has developed nationally-recognized programs integrating career assessment and training with liberal arts undergraduate education. He serves on the Investment Committee of NYU-Winthrop Hospital where he is also a member of the Board of Regents. Mr. Ronzetti has also recently joined the Villa I Tatti Council of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Fiesole, near Florence, Italy.
Mr. Ronzetti holds honors degrees from Harvard College in Government and Economics (A.B. 1982) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration (M.B.A. 1986).