Massimo Chiodi

Massimo Chiodi, also referred to by KPG as “Max,” is a Managing Director at KPG Capital Partners, LLC, an alternative-investment placement agent and third-party marketing firm founded in 2000 by Kenneth Gettinger. KPG provides advisory services and capital introductions to alternative investment managers across private markets, public markets, and real estate, with investor relationships that include family offices, RIAs, pensions, foundations, endowments, and wealth and asset-management platforms.

Chiodi began his investment career in the Zürich office of UBS. KPG states that he was later promoted to Head of Institutional Sales in New York, where he directed European sales operations. After UBS, he spent two years as Senior Vice President at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and then moved to Merrill Lynch’s Foreign Exchange Group.

In 2001, Chiodi joined KPG, reuniting with former UBS/DLJ colleagues. His firm bio emphasizes more than 20 years of investment-services experience, a trading background, world-markets expertise, and the ability to match suitable investors with KPG clients and advise both sides on requirements for deal closure.

Chiodi earned a BBA from KV Zürich Business School. KPG says he holds Series 7, 66, 3, and 79 securities registrations; third-party regulatory-index data lists CRD number 3049049 and no reported disclosures, but founders should verify directly through FINRA BrokerCheck or SEC IAPD before relying on regulatory status.

• KPG is not presented by its primary website as a conventional angel investor or direct startup VC. Its stated business is capital introduction and advisory work for alternative investment managers.
• KPG says its primary focus is capital introduction and that it engages with managers that “demonstrate excellence and differentiation” in their disciplines.
• KPG works with private-market managers looking to build and expand their investor bases, and advises them on marketing strategy, structure, fee options, and messaging.
• The firm’s private-market exposure includes private credit, private equity, real assets, and venture capital, with a focus on helping managers formulate and execute capital-raising strategies.
• In hedge funds, KPG works across global macro, equities, emerging markets, fixed income, commodities, and currencies, and says it has successfully arranged seeding structures.
• Chiodi’s personal edge appears to be cross-border investor coverage, institutional-sales experience, foreign-exchange/trading background, and multilingual fluency in English, German, Italian, Spanish, and French.