Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Richard Sapio





Richard Sapio is the CEO of Mutual Capital Alliance, Inc.
http://www.mutualcapitalalliance.com Richard Sapio, 45, is the Founder and CEO of Mutual Capital Alliance, Inc. (“MCA”), a Dallas-based Holding Company, which Richard Sapio founded 15 years ago, in March 1994. After a 6-year investment banking career, and after making Partner of Barre & Company, Inc., Richard Sapio started MCA to make opportunistic investments in private companies, intellectual properties, and real estate. MCA has more than 40 direct and indirect holdings; which include a merchant bank - Mutual Capital Partners, a private-equity fund - Mutual Capital Partners Fund I, a distressed loan-acquisition business - Peterson, Goldman & Villani, Inc., and, a nurse staffing agency - Quality Care Professionals, Inc. MCA also has several commercial real estate holdings.


Richard Sapio founded the USA Mutuals family of mutual funds in 2001 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of MCA. It has 3 publicly-traded mutual funds. In 2005, Richard Sapio co-founded Astoria Partners, a private investment partnership, which has made 7 investments to date in private companies and distressed real estate. Richard Sapio is an active LP in Scientific Health Development, which invests primarily in medical-device companies.

Richard Sapio earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Richard Sapio was President, and served for 7 years on the Board of the Dallas Chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization (“EO”). Richard Sapio is also the founder of the YPO/EO Dallas Mentorship Program, which went national in 1999. Richard Sapio is the co-author of the yet-to-be-published (and 5-year passion), “Financial Fitness – 6 Steps to Achieving a Long-Term Wealth Consciousness”. Richard Sapio is the co-Founder and 3-year Chairman of MIT’s Gathering of Titans Program. Richard Sapio serves in the role of past-President of The Dallas Roundtable. He also serves on the Advisory Committee and is an active donor for The Entrepreneurs Foundation of North Texas. One of Richard Sapio’s passions is learning, and he is in his 5th year at The Stagen Leadership Institute, currently in the Graduate Leadership Program. Richard Sapio lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, Melissa, and their son, Luke.



Mutual Capital Alliance, Inc.

Mutual Capital Alliance, Inc. (MCA) is a private holding company, founded in 1994, by Richard Sapio. The company’s holdings include investments in financial services companies, medical device technologies, healthcare, and distressed debt/real estate. The company has more than two dozen holdings. MCA seeks to leverage its relationships and capital throughout its alliance of like-minded entrepreneurially-minded individuals and companies – to accomplish conscientious and worthwhile business objectives.