Rick Camoirano

Rick Camoirano is the Chief Financial Officer of W/F Investment Corp., a Los Angeles-based private investment firm that describes itself as an early-stage provider of capital and strategic partner. W/F’s site lists him as “Rick Camoirano, CPA” and says he has served as CFO of the firm since 1984.

Before W/F, Camoirano began his career at Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, the predecessor firm to Deloitte & Touche, working in the New York and Los Angeles offices. He holds B.A. and MBA degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

At W/F, Camoirano’s CFO role has included finance leadership roles at several W/F-related operating companies: Century City Savings, which W/F formed and later sold to American Liberty Savings Bank; Morrison Automotive Group, a seven-franchise new-car dealership group in Glendale, California; and Camera Platforms International, a public company serving the entertainment industry. W/F also says Camoirano manages the company’s real estate investments.

• W/F describes itself as an “early stage provider of capital and strategic partner” that is “highly selective” and “always take[s] a hands-on approach.”
• The firm says it provides “debt and equity” to businesses with a “unique product or service” in an “otherwise crowded or emerging new market.”
• W/F’s value-add model includes operating capital plus legal, accounting, and strategic-alliance support tied to a mutually approved business plan.
• The firm’s historical pattern is operationally intensive investing: acquiring, financing, restructuring, or managing businesses where W/F can improve growth, viability, profitability, or exit potential.
• W/F’s later-stage/distressed focus includes fiscally troubled public companies, formal reorganizations, operational turnarounds, and reverse-merger or roll-up strategies.