Our People

Anthony H. Mannara

Founder/Chief Executive Officer
FirstEurope is overseen and managed by Anthony Mannara, CEO, who is an Independent Financial Advisor. In 2002, Mr. Mannara founded the predecessor to the Company, namely FirstEurope Srl, an international M&A and Corporate Finance Advisory company headquartered and operating out of Milan Italy, that serviced the financial needs of a broad range of international businesses in a variety of industries.
Prior to FirstEurope, Mr. Mannara has served as Head of Foreign Direct Investments in New York for the Italian Trade Agency, an Italian government organization. He has had a long career in brokerage and banking in New York, Rome, and Milan. His heavy interrelation between the capital markets in Italy and the United States commenced in earnest in 1990 when Citibank transferred and assigned Anthony as Vice President and Relationship Manager for Multinational Corporations in Rome.
During his decades of experience in Italy, Mr. Mannara also served as Head of Equity Research for Milla & Co. SIM in Milan Italy, (Now Banca Leonardo). Anthony served as a Swiss Fiduciary when he founded and managed one of the first Euro-based hedge funds, Tiberius Ltd, based in Lugano, Switzerland. The company’s asset management activity evolved into the Company and its initial role in finance advisory: FirstEurope. Now based in New York, the Company provides European and U.S. companies with strategic merger and acquisition advisory services coupled with access to capital in the international private and public financial markets.
Mr. Mannara earned his MBA from the Columbia Business School and his BA in Economics from Vassar College. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63, 24, 27, and 79 licenses and is a Certified Valuation Analyst, CVA. Anthony also serves as a Professor of Practice in New York City at Hunter College and Fordham University where he teaches Securities & Investment Analysis and Macroeconomics to a wide range of students with varying backgrounds, where he draws upon his extensive experience. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Italy.