Robert Bertagna

Bob is currently the CEO of Minerva Ventures LLC, which is his family office focusing on providing strategic advice and capital to start-ups and other high growth ventures.
Prior to establishing Minerva Ventures in 2021, Bob was an investment banker that advised and managed groups of bankers that advised CEOs, CFOs and Boards on the full range of value-enhancing corporate strategic transaction alternatives such as mergers, acquisitions, separations and recapitalizations.
His advice included not only providing assessments of the most attractive value-enhancing alternatives, but also the full scope of advice on tactically executing and then negotiating strategic transactions to produce optimal results.
As an investment banker, Bob most recently was the Vice Chairman and Head of M&A at Macquarie Capital.
Bob also had senior level investment banking positions at Barclays and Lehman Brothers, and was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Groups at Credit Suisse and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Bob is currently serving as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Union College.
Union College, founded in 1795 and located in Schenectady, NY, is a highly selective, private, residential, liberal arts college with engineering.
Bob earned a BA, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Union College and earned and MBA from Harvard Business School.