Mr. Cinali is a restructuring and transactions executive with extensive senior leadership experience with both public and private companies. He has served on the boards of public companies in Chapter 11 cases, has advised companies’ undergoing multi-jurisdictional restructurings and has purchased/sold assets in 363 situations. He is a co-founder of Springwell Capital Partners.
Prior to Springwell, Mr. Cinali was the Corporate Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Hughes Electronics where he led the strategic transformation of Hughes into an Americas-based services business. Before Hughes, Mr. Cinali spent four years as the VP of Mergers & Acquisitions at AT&T Corp. where he and his team successfully developed and executed over $90 billion in transactions including the divestitures of dozens of non-core businesses and the purchase of companies in the wireline, wireless, cable, broadband services and Internet sectors. Mr. Cinali also spent six years at GE Capital and completed several corporate mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, leveraged financing transactions and restructurings. Prior to GE Capital, he was at Bain & Co. as a strategy consultant and participated in a number of operational and strategic realignment of businesses.
Mr. Cinali has a BS/BA in Engineering and Economics from Brown University and a MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.