Equita Capital SGR

Balthazar Cazac is Managing Partner and a Board Member at Equita Capital SGR, where he heads the firm's Infrastructure practice and leads its Green Infrastructure activities. He holds a Ph.D. and works in renewable energy investment, with experience spanning fund management, M&A, project development, capital raising, and strategic advisory.

Bekim Krasniqi is a Partner in private debt at Equita Capital. He has transaction experience across sectors including consumer goods, retailing, advanced manufacturing, support services, facility management, technology, and e-commerce. His areas of focus include private debt, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, distressed M&A, financial restructurings, equity capital markets, and structured finance.

Rossano Rufini is a Board Member at Equita Capital SGR, where he holds executive responsibility over the private equity division, including Club Deal strategies, and chairs the Equita Smart Capital ELTIF Investment Committee. He co-sponsored and served as Co-CEO of EPS Equita PEP SPAC in 2017 and promoted the Equita Smart Capital ELTIF in 2021, a PIR Alternative–compliant private equity fund that reached a €100m final close in June 2023. He has more than 25 years of experience in private equity, including work on leveraged acquisitions and a track record as a Non-Executive Director.

Former Managing Director and Legal Director of a portfolio management company who joined to help form Dièse.

Giuseppe Mapelli is a Portfolio Manager at Equita Capital SGR. Prior to this role, he spent nearly seventeen years working as a financial analyst on an equity research team in Italy before transitioning to portfolio management.

Matteo Morelli is a Principal in the Alternative Asset Management team at Equita Capital SGR, where he works with the Private Equity and Debt teams. He previously worked in the Corporate M&A team at Equita SIM. Born in Naples, he graduated from the University of Southern California in 2018 on a water polo scholarship and is now based in Milan.