Gabriele Bavagnoli
Founding Partner
After a 20-year career in strategy consulting and private equity, Gabriele Bavagnoli founded Milano Capital in 2014 and has been its Managing Director since then, where he co-led – together with Gianluca Longhi – syndicated investments in Studitalia and Nashi-Argan.
In 2017, together with Maurizio Borletti and Paolo De Spirt of the Borletti Group, he co-founded Spactiv, a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, which raised € 90 million from Italian and international investors in an oversubscribed IPO. He served as Spactiv CEO until September 2020.
From 2014 to 2016 he was Managing Director at Idea Capital – a leading Italian Private Equity Firm with more than € 1.5 billion assets under management – where he co-led the creation of a € 200+ million Private Equity Fund focused on Food & Beverage, and carried out the leveraged buy-out of Gruppo La Piadineria, a fast-growing restaurant chain, in which he served as Board member. The investment was later sold at more than 12 times the entry value.
From 1997 to 2014 he has been at McKinsey & Company, where in 2007 he became Partner in the Milan Office. Inc. Within McKinsey, he advised global Retail, Consumer Goods and Telecom clients in Italy, UK, US, the Netherlands, Eastern Europe, and Africa on strategy, finance, and commercial topics. He also advised several Private Equity firms in due diligence and performance enhancement efforts.
Before McKinsey he acquired experience in M&A at Morgan Stanley in London. Since 2014 he is board member and since 2017 President at FBH, holding company of Baraclit, a family-owned business and the largest Italian manufacturer of prefabricated buildings. In 2013 he orchestrated the foundation of Dianax, a biotech company specialised in portable diagnostic tests. He is also a member of the NonExecutiveDirector Community and has been an angel investors within Italian Angels for Growth.
He holds a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University, New York, a Laurea cum laude in Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and a Liceo Classico Diploma.