Alex Tarantino

Managing Director, BlackRock - Global Head of eFront Sales

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

About

Experience

  • Managing Director at BlackRock
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    Global Head of Sales for Aladdin Alternatives Technology and services.

  • Colmore (Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain)
    • Co Head, Colmore
      May 2024 - Mar 2025 · 11 mos

    • Commercial Director and Co-Founder
      Feb 2017 - May 2024 · 7 yrs 4 mos

      Colmore, A Preqin Company, was acquired by Blackrock in 2025. The business was a spin out from a leading Fund of Fund, delivering cutting-edge technology and services to private market investors, allowing for real-time portfolio monitoring, fee validation and accounting. Colmore’s industry-defining solutions are made for the fintech era, designed to give investors more control, clarity and confidence. Headquartered in Birmingham, UK and Dallas, TX, the team has many years of in-house private market experience. By 2025 grew to 380 team members strong.

  • Director, Business Development at SS&C GlobeOp
    Jun 2013 - Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Product Manager, Private Equity & Venture Capital at PrivCo
    Jun 2012 - May 2013 · 1 yr

  • Analyst - TMT Investment Banking at Oppenheimer & Co.
    May 2011 - Jun 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Analyst in lead-managed and co-managed public and private offerings of debt and equity transactions • High involvement in project-related work including meetings with senior client management, key board members, relevant advisors (financial, legal, industry, etc.), valuation, projections, strategic review, corporate governance, due diligence, and preparation of client presentations • Construct dynamic financial models and perform valuation analyses, including discounted cash flow, leveraged buyout, sum-of-the-parts, comparable company and precedent transaction analyses • Planned and developed DCM-East Startup Showcase, a competition of startups pitching to a panel of Venture Capital investors looking for funding and partnership opportunities Select Transaction Experience: Available upon request