Marco Bellino Email Address

Managing Director

Ardian, founded in 1996 and led by Dominique Senequier, is an independent private investment company with assets of US$60bn managed or advised in Europe, North America and Asia. The company, which is majority-owned by its employees, keeps entrepreneurship at its heart and delivers investment performance to its global investors while fuelling growth in economies across the world. Ardian's investment process embodies three values: excellence, loyalty and entrepreneurship. Ardian maintains a truly global network, with more than 430 employees working through 12 offices in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid, Zurich, New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Singapore, Jersey, Luxembourg. The company offers its 550 investors a diversified choice of funds covering the full range of asset classes through Ardian Funds of Funds (comprising primary, early secondary and secondary activities), Ardian Private Debt, Ardian Direct Funds (comprising Ardian Mid Cap Buyout, Ardian Expansion, Ardian Growth and Ardian Co-Investment), Ardian Infrastructure, Ardian Real Estate and customized mandate solutions with Ardian Mandates.

Marco Bellino joined ARDIAN (formerly known as AXA Private Equity) in March 2013. Prior to this, he was a Senior Associate in Hutton Collins, a pan-European preferred capital investment fund based in London. While in Hutton Collins, Marco completed three investments (Caffé Nero, Hunter Boot, and The Vincent Hotel Group) and was involved in the monitoring of Aquafil. Before joining Hutton Collins, Marco spent four years with the investment bank UBS in Milan working within the Italian country coverage team, executing numerous M&A and equity capital market transactions for clients across a range of sectors (inter alia, Philips acquisition of Saeco International Group, Zignago Vetro IPO, Ladbrokes acquisition of Italian betting licences). Marco graduated from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. He is fluent in Italian, English and French. Specialties: Products: Mergers & Acquisitions, Leveraged Finance, Private Equity Sectors: Consumer goods, Gaming, Shipping, Leisure, Chemicals