Speakers

facultyModerator - Ceasar Anquillare
Chairman and CEO, Winchester Capital

Mr. Anquillare is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Winchester Capital, the private transatlantic investment banking company based in New Haven, CT and London. Winchester Capital specialises in global private equity and strategic international mergers and acquisitions transactions. Winchester was founded in 1986 by Mr. Anquillare and the family investment office of the late Hon Averell Harriman, a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman and former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. Upon the appointment of the Hon Pamela Harriman as U.S. Ambassador to France in 1995, Mr. Anquillare acquired the firm together with his London colleagues. Winchester subsequently entered into a Global Co-Investment Agreement with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, where Mr. Anquillare also served as Adviser for private equity and technology based investments.

Mr. Anquillare holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science (Georgetown University and Fairfield University). He undertook further post graduate studies in law at the University of London. Mr. Anquillare serves as a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Anquillare also has served as an adviser to the U.S. Agency for International Development during the administrations of the late President Ronald Reagan and former President George H. W. Bush. In 2002 Mr. Anquillare was appointed Honourary Ambassador to the United Kingdom and European Union by the Governor of the State of Connecticut. Mr. Anquillare is a director of the St. George's Society of New York and also the British-American Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Inc.