Cinali Named Hughes Corporate Vice President for Strategic Planning
and Business Development Business Wire, May 12, 1999
Prior to joining AT&T in 1995, Cinali managed mergers and acquisitions for GE Capital's commercial sector and served as vice president in GE Capital's Equity Group. Before his service with GE Capital, Cinali was a strategy consultant with Bain and Company of Boston, where he provided advice and expertise to help Bain clients pursue their strategy development, business restructuring and cost and productivity improvements.
Mr. Cinali co-founded Springwell Capital Partners in April 2001 after leaving Hughes Electronics, where, as Corporate Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, he oversaw all of Hughes’ strategic investment activities. At Hughes, Mr. Cinali formulated the strategy to divest manufacturing operations while focusing on higher growth services businesses. He also established the Technology and Ventures Group to make early stage equity investments. Prior to Hughes, Mr. Cinali spent four years as head of Mergers & Acquisitions at AT&T Corp. where he and his team successfully developed and executed over $90 billion in transactions including wireline, wireless, cable, broadband services and Internet transactions as well as the sale of non-strategic assets. Mr. Cinali also spent six years at GE Capital and completed several corporate mergers and acquisitions, equity and leveraged financing transactions. Prior to GE Capital, he was at Bain & Co. as a strategy consultant.
Well, well well. No I haven’t. Look at all the connections to Bain’s. Mitts darlin’.