Antonio Vitti

Antonio Vitti was the co-founder and CEO of Merchant Atlas, a venture-backed start-up that pioneered sales automation with machine learning and curated data-at-scale (acquired in 2016). Before that, he was the Hong Kong-based Director of Business Development for Franklin Templeton’s emerging market private equity subsidiary with responsibilities for fundraising from institutional investors in the Asia Pacific region. Before Franklin Templeton, Antonio worked in BlackRock’s San Francisco private equity commercial real estate group developing greenfield commercial and residential real estate projects in the US Western region. Before then, he worked at Lehman Brothers in San Francisco as a sell-side equity research analyst covering financial service sector stocks. Earlier he worked in Lehman’s New York City office managing capital markets and counterparty trading risks for fixed income and equity derivative products. Antonio started his career at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York. He received his MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and his undergraduate degree from Villanova University. Antonio is a mentor to students and alumni at UC Berkeley’s SkyDeck technology start-up incubator.