CANNONBALL CAPITAL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Partner at DLA Piper
Florian Hirschmann is a lawyer and partner at DLA Piper in Munich, advising financial investors as well as strategic investors in the field of corporate law, with a focus on national and international private equity and M&A transactions, venture capital and joint ventures. As an advisor to the Cannonball Group he actively advises on investments and structuring, as well as acting as an active sparring partner.
Prior to his move to Reed Smith LLP in 2018, Florian worked as a partner for leading American and English law firms in Munich and Frankfurt.
Florian completed his studies at the Universities of Frankfurt a. M, Cambridge and Milan. He holds a completed apprenticeship as an industrial manager and speaks fluent English and Spanish.
A selection of transactions Florian has provided legal advice on are:
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Citigroup Global Markets German Corporation
Hans W. Reich is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Citigroup Global Markets German Corporation and has been Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Bank since October 2008. He is also member of the European Advisory Board to Citigroup.
Moreover Hans W. Reich is member of the International Advisory Council of the Chinese Development Bank, as well as Hon. Chairman, Financial and Investment Committee Charoen Pokphand Group Co. Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand.
Furthermore, he is Member of the Board for the Foundation of Capital Markets Research, Frankfurt (since 2004)
Prior to joining Citigroup Mr. Reich was Chairman of the Board of the KfW Bank Group (1999-2006) as well as Member of the Board from 1990-1999. He began his KfW career in 1966 in the field of Export and Project Financing.
During a career spanning over 56 years, he has brought his expertise and experience to the following supervisory and advisory boards:
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Member of the Board
Pietro Cinquegrana has 30 years of international experience in investing, advisory and consulting. He is a Managing Director at CDIB Capital International, a global institutional investing group. Pietro is based in New York and focuses on direct private investing with a broad and flexible mandate. Prior to joining CDIB Capital, he was a Managing Director at Hudson Hill Capital, a long-term-oriented US private investment firm with flexible capital and a broad investment mandate. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Aleph Capital Partners, a European investment firm focused on flexible capital solutions, from 2014 to 2016. In 2013 and 2014 Pietro was a member of Vitol Investment Partners, an energy private equity fund, where he completed investments in Europe and in Asia/Australia. Until October 2012, Pietro was a Managing Director at Fosun-Pramerica Fund - a US$600 million private equity fund managed by Fosun International, a Chinese investment holding company - with a focus on investing in European niche-leading companies.
Previously, between 2009 and 2011, Pietro was a Managing Director at Apollo Global Management - as Head of Acquisitions in their Hong Kong office - and a Managing Director of Holdfast Capital Limited in Hong Kong, which was bought by Apollo.
Prior to moving to Asia in 2009, Pietro lived in the U.S. for over 18 years. Between 2007 and 2009, he worked for two years at Ospraie Special Opportunities, a US$1.2 billion private equity and special situations fund based in New York. From 1994 to 2005, Pietro worked at Morgan Stanley in various capacities: between 1999 and 2005, he was an Executive Director in Princes Gate Investors, a US$1.2 billion private equity fund closely affiliated with Morgan Stanley.
Previously, he was a Vice President in the M&A Department, and was a member of the three-person team that raised and invested the Morgan Stanley Bridge Fund, a US$600 million bridge loan fund (1995-1997). Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Pietro worked at Seacor Holdings Inc., was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group Corp, Inc. from 1993 to 1994, and a Financial Analyst in the Corporate Finance Department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in London from 1989 to 1991.
Pietro has been a board member of several companies, including Core Metals Group (private company), GST Telecommunications (publicly listed company) and two private joint ventures.
Pietro received an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Serafino Ferruzzi scholar. He received a M.Sc. in Economics from Oxford University and a B.Sc. in Monetary Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Pietro is fluent in English, Italian, and French, and holds both U.S. and Italian citizenships.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
Robert Salzl advises the Schörghuber Foundation in Munich, of which he was an active member until summer 2014.
From 1996 to 2006, he was a member of the Holding Board of the Schörghuber Group and from 2009 to 2014 a member of the Board of Trustees. The Schörghuber Group is involved in the areas of hotels (Arabella Hotels), beverages (Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, Kulmbacher, etc.), real estate development (Bayerische Hausbau) as well as investments and seafood. Robert Salzl was responsible in particular for the hotel operations and aircraft rental divisions as well as all central purchasing activities.
From 1962 to 1996, he worked for Deutsche Lufthansa AG as a flight captain and instructor and was also responsible as chief pilot and from 1992 head of flight operations.
He is a member of the supervisory board and various advisory committees in selected companies, institutions and associations. From 2013 to 2018, he was president of the Upper Bavaria Munich Tourism Association.
Mr. Salzl supports Cannonball's efforts to expand client relationships in Europe and actively advises on investment opportunities.