Our Team
Carmine Bruno
Carmine Bruno, an Associate out of New York at SierraConstellation Partners, is a finance professional with three years of experience in both advisory and investment roles. He has worked with clients across a variety of industries including consumer & retail, information technology, healthcare, professional services, and transportation & logistics.
Prior to joining SierraConstellation Partners, Carmine worked at Aleutian Capital Group, a New York investment banking firm that provides M&A advisory and acquisition services in the North American middle market. As an analyst, Carmine was responsible for originating new opportunities, creating marketing materials, performing valuation analysis, and advising companies throughout the M&A process.
He began his career as T3 Trading Group LLC, a Registered SEC Broker Dealer & Member of FINRA/SIPC. As an equity trader, he managed a self-directed portfolio utilizing fundamental and technical analysis.
Carmine has a BA in Economics from Hamilton College. He holds FINRA licenses Series 57, Series 63, and Series 79.
Carmine enjoys watching sports, reading comics, trying new restaurants and is a fan of the Indianapolis Colts and the New York Mets. He was an all-conference football player in high school and college, and fortunately left the sport with just a few broken bones.
Notable Assignments
- Financial modeling support for a publicly traded telecommunications company with over 15 separate business units. Responsibilities included developing and maintaining the 13-week cash flow, creating client’s operating model, and developing a carve-out analysis for underperforming units.
- Financial modeling support for an omnichannel retailer of women’s clothing. Developed and maintained a 13-week cash flow model and operating model that served as the basis for a forbearance agreement with senior lender after company experienced an event of default and liquidity crunch.
- Operational support for an omnichannel retailer of food products. Created a waterfall analysis to determine recoveries for impaired stakeholders after closing on mezzanine financing. Subsequently negotiated with over 50 creditors out-of-court and lowered client’s AP balance by over 50%.
- Financial modeling support for an omnichannel retailer of food products. Developed and maintained 13-week cash flow model that served as the basis for capital investment.
- Financial modeling support for an omnichannel retailer of consumer discretionary goods. Responsibilities included four-wall analysis, pricing analysis, and implementation of best practices for client’s 13-week cash flow model.