Ignacio Sarria, Managing Director, joined new Mountain in 2013. Before joining New Mountain, Mr. Sarria was CEO and co-founder of Arcano Capital, an alternative investments firm specializing in fund of funds, secondaries and co-investments that manages over $1.5bn of capital for international institutional investors from Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Latin America.
Prior to founding Arcano Capital in 2005, Mr. Sarria worked as an investment banker for ten years at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust, focusing on leveraged buy-out transactions. Mr. Sarria served as head of the Mergers & Acquisitions team for Spain and Portugal covering the largest corporate accounts in the Iberian Peninsula as well as the largest international private equity firms. Prior to that, Mr. Sarria worked for Arthur Andersen on auditing and consulting projects for large industrial and financial services firms.
Mr. Sarria earned a B.A. from the University of Navarra. He has also participated as an exchange student at Hohenheim University in Stuttgart (Germany) and the Harvard Business School summer program.