Sofia Bianchi is an international finance professional with 35 years of experience in: i) serving on and advising boards on strategy, value creation, corporate finance, corporate governance, and ESG; ii) financial and operational restructuring of corporations and funds; and iii) fund management: special situations, infrastructure, debt and mezzanine.
She is the Founding Partner of Atlante Capital Partners, which invests in structurally undervalued businesses. Until 2020 she was Head of Special Situations, as well as a Member of the Investment Committee for Debt and Infrastructure, at the CDC (now BII), the United Kingdom’s development finance institution. Previously she was Head of Special Situations at BlueCrest Capital Management, a multi-billion British-American investment firm.
As Deputy Managing Director of the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, she was a lead participant in establishing and running the fund, which was the first of its kind. Prior to that, she was a senior banker at the EBRD and an executive in the M&A team of Prudential Bache.
Sofia currently holds several positions as an independent non-executive director. She serves on the Board of Ma’aden, the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East, where she represents the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF). She is also a member of the board of directors of Manara Minerals, Ivanhoe Electric and Yellow Cake. In Canada she is the chair of the board of Canagold Resources, a TSX listed gold development company.
