Rick Vitón

Richard L. Vitón is a Partner of Inter-Atlantic Group which he joined in 2008 and is a member of Inter-Atlantic Group’s investment committee. Mr. Vitón is also a director on the board of Inter-Atlantic portfolio company, Homeowners of America Holding Corporation. With over 20 years of financial services experience as a senior level investment banker and previously in a corporate finance role, Mr. Vitón has significant industry client relationships and extensive transaction execution experience. Mr. Vitón specialized in the insurance sector with particular strength in its cross-over with other financial services sectors including asset management, transaction processing, finance companies an banking and has advised the largest Hispanic-owned investment bank. Mr. Vitón was most recently a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group of Credit Suisse from 2005 to 2007, where he was recruited to rebuild Credit Suisse’s insurance practice with a focus on cross-divisional coordination with the Fixed Income and Asset-Backed Securities areas. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Vitón was a Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank from 1997 to 2005, having founded a Chicago office and Insurance Group for Dillon Read prior to its acquisition by Swiss Bank and merger with UBS. In addition to senior client relationship responsibilities for the insurance sector Mr. Vitón also served for a period as Chief Operating Officer of the Financial Institutions Group assisting in managing and growing the group from 10 to 50 professionals. At UBS Mr. Vitón completed over 150 financing and merger and acquisition transactions totaling over $60 billion, including a variety of large cap, small cap, cross border and structured products transactions. Prior to joining Dillon Read, Mr. Vitón was in the Chicago office of Dean Witter Reynolds from 1990 to 1997, where he was a Midwest region generalist and a founding member of the Insurance Industry Group within Investment Banking. Mr. Vitón started his career as Senior Corporate Finance Analyst at Sears, Roebuck and Co. where he was a member of a small team with responsibilities for Sears’ global capital markets activities and financial strategies. Mr. Vitón holds a Master of Management degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Northwestern University. Mr. Vitón is a member of the Association of Insurance and Financial Analysts.