Prior to joining Alerion in August of 2005, Mr. Cioffi was a Senior Vice President at GE Equity, a division of General Electric Capital Corporation. During his seven years at GE, he invested over $120 million in 12 companies and sat on the board of directors of seven of those companies. Mr. Cioffi led investments in Productivity Solutions, Inc., Iridian Technologies, Speechworks International, and Universal Technical Institute. His realized investments yielded over a 30% IRR.

During his last two years at GE, Mr. Cioffi oversaw a team in charge of GE Equity’s $700 million private equity and venture capital fund portfolio. This portfolio consisted of 90 limited partnership interests. He sat on the advisory boards of ten of these partnerships.

Prior to joining GE Equity in 1998, he was with Evaluation Associates Capital Markets in their funds management business. He started his finance career with Chase Manhattan in their Private Banking Group where he spent five years including completion of Chase’s Management Development Program. Prior to Chase, Rob worked on the staff of U.S. Senator James M. Jeffords.

Mr. Cioffi graduated with an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and earned a BA in political science and economics from the University of Vermont. He currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the University of Vermont.
 

cioffi@alerionpartners.com