Santa Fe, New Mexico
Richard A. Vinchesi
Founder & CEO, Olympic Advisors
Managing Director, Stock Securities
If you have a corporate finance problem I can't solve, you are in serious trouble.
For over 35 years I have built businesses with founders and executives across industries and through various stages of growth, advising on all the elements that achieve the mission: optimal strategy, leadership, organization, go-to-market, sales, marketing, operations, exit planning, and eventual exit. I have completed dozens of equity and debt transactions of all shapes and sizes. Clients come for a combination that is uncommon in one person: investment banker, full-time chief financial officer, and hands-on consultant to startups and growth companies.
A career spanning investment banking, growth consulting, and executive management
Most advisors know one of these jobs. I have done all four, and I still do the last two every week.
Investment banking
Salomon Brothers
I began my career at Salomon Brothers in New York, serving corporate clients in their pursuit of public equity and high-yield debt. Lead-managed transactions with my direct involvement raised more than $3 billion.
Operating executive
Chief Financial Officer
I then served full time as CFO and COO of technology companies on the East Coast and in Silicon Valley, including Inter-Act Electronic Marketing and Personify. I built and led teams, planned and enabled growth, raised equity and debt, and oversaw SEC reporting.
Consulting & Executive Management
Olympic Advisors
As Founder and CEO I work hands-on with founders on business growth and corporate finance. Consumer products, software and technology, eCommerce, and music and entertainment. Founders often say we built the company together.
Investment Banking
Stock Securities
In parallel I am a Managing Director of Stock Securities, the Stamford investment bank through which I advise on sell-side mergers and acquisitions and raise capital for select clients.
Capital formation experience at every stage of growth
Growth companies from pre-revenue through more than $200 million in sales. Seed / Angel / Micro-VC / Venture Capital / Private Equity & A wide variety of debt structures.
- $0.5MAngel financings for early startups
- $1–50MSeries A through F preferred stock
- DebtBank / non-Bank, ABL, merchant, mezzanine, venture, and shareholder loans
- $75M–$1BIPO and high-yield transactions for larger companies
Consumer products · Software & technology · eCommerce · Music & entertainment
“Rich and I built this company together.”
What founders say while on the journey and at the exit.