Lorenzo Zamboni

Lorenzo Zamboni is a Partner at Astorg, where he serves as Co-Head of the firm's Flagship Fund and Head of Italy, and sits on the Flagship Fund Investment Committee. Within Astorg he leads the Industrials practice and is also active in Healthcare and Advanced Materials. He is based in the firm's Milan office and is a graduate of Bocconi University.

He joined Astorg in 2009. Before that, he spent five years at the international private equity firm 3i, working on transactions across a broad range of sectors. He began his career in the Transaction Services department at KPMG in Paris, advising corporates and private equity funds on cross-border M&A deals — experience reflected in the Paris phone line still associated with his Astorg contact details.

Astorg is an independent, European mid-market buyout firm whose tagline is "uncovering value through the art of listening." It seeks to partner with strong management teams to acquire — very often from founding families — businesses with attractive growth prospects, supporting them with governance and capital. Zamboni was co-opted as a Partner in 2015 (announced alongside Stéphane Epin) and has since become one of the senior figures driving the firm's flagship strategy and its expansion in Italy.

• Invests through control buyouts, not minority/venture/seed positions — the relevant "stage" is established, cash-generative businesses, not early-stage startups.
• Targets successful, entrepreneurial, often family-owned companies with attractive growth prospects that benefit from experienced governance and growth capital.
• Sector lens centered on Industrials (his sector responsibility), extending into Healthcare and Advanced Materials.
• Strong Italian and broader European focus; comfortable with cross-border and buy-and-build / M&A-driven value creation.
• Value-creation playbook emphasizes organic growth, international expansion, and add-on M&A under Astorg ownership — as he described at the Surfaces Group exit, "We are parting from a great company led by a great management team, and we are proud to have co-written a successful chapter of its history."