Mark V. Santo

Mr. Mark Santo is a Principal at Renaissance Partners LLC.
He is a senior international business executive with extensive experience in the management of cross border mergers and acquisitions as well as the representation of foreign enterprises seeking entry into the North American marketplace.
He has served in senior executive roles involving initial and secondary offerings upon U.S.
and European stock exchanges and has managed critical post-acquisition integration strategies for foreign clients with respect to their U.S.
Operations.
Early in his career, he joined the Finmeccanica Group of Rome, Italy.
In 2001, he was a founding member of Glengary Ventures LLC, an early stage private equity fund.
While at Glengary, he served as COO of Nanodiecltrics Corporation, an early stage solar cell technology enterprise.
In 2003, he acquired Parvus Corporation, an aerospace electronics group based in Salt Lake City on behalf of a European based multinational, the Eurotech Group of Udine, Italy.
Mr. Santo has also recently served as an Adjunct Professor at Duquesne University’s John F.
Donahue Graduate School of Business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he taught Strategic Formation and Implementation.
He was also elected to serve as President and CEO of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, an eighty-three year old Cleveland based institution.