DARIO SCHIRALDI

SENIOR ADVISOR
STRUCTURED FINANCE
DUBAI / GLOBAL

Dario Schiraldi is a senior banking executive with over twenty years of financial services experience leading large organizations on both the buy and sell side. 

After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Schiraldi managed institutional sales organizations in global markets out of New York and London, working for Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank for over 17 years. 

Subsequent to his years in the investment banking division where in his last role he had oversight of Deutsche Bank’s European institutional sales for equity, fixed income, currencies and commodities, a Euro 5 billion business comprising of over 500 professionals spread across 12 countries, Mr. Schiraldi was an integral part of the turnaround of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management.

In that role, he was both Global Head of Sales for Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management, the bank ́s global retail and institutional asset management franchise across Active, Passive, and Alternatives, comprising around 900 professionals and AuM of around €750 billion, and Chairman for Europe, Middle East & Africa, comprising an additional 950 FTEs in 27 marketing and manufacturing locations spread across 21 countries. He left Deutsche Bank in the middle of 2016.

Today Mr. Schiraldi advises clients across a variety of industries through VIDA Ventures, and manages his own investments through VIDA Holding, his personal family office investment vehicle. VIDA Holding detains investments in both early and late stage companies in a variety of industries ranging from technology to real estate, media, and food.