Dino is a Partner at Chicago Atlantic focused on originations and President of Chicago Atlantic BDC, Inc. (Ticker: LIEN). Since 2001, Dino has managed traditional and alternative investment portfolios and advised corporations and institutional investors across the global capital markets. Prior to Chicago Atlantic, Dino was a Partner and Co-Head of Credit at Silver Spike Capital, a cannabis focused private credit firm.

He was also a managing partner at Madison Capital Advisors, a middle-market asset-backed lending and advisory firm focused on emerging growth companies in the cannabis, life sciences and tech sectors. Prior to Madison, Dino spent over 10 years as an investment banker at the top-ranked Equity Capital Markets team at Barclays in London, and as a senior research analyst at Forest Investment Management, a global multi-strategy hedge fund. With Barclays, he advised on and structured over $8bn of equity, derivative and debt transactions and while at Forest, he specialized in credit and equity research and was part of the portfolio management team managing a $500mm+ multi-strategy portfolio.

MBA (Finance and Entrepreneurship), Esade
BSBA (Major: Finance, Minor: Economics), University of Delaware
CFA® charterholder, CFA Institute