Robert Ricciardelli

Robert Ricciardelli is a Director at Excelsior Capital Partners, a boutique financing and advisory firm based in Asheville, North Carolina that specializes in the renewable and alternative energy sectors and also serves media/entertainment and commercial real estate clients. The firm provides equity financing, debt structuring, structured finance, strategic planning, and consulting. Ricciardelli brings more than twenty (by some accounts twenty-five) years of banking and investment experience to the role.

Earlier in his career, Ricciardelli was a managing partner of Turnstone Capital and a founder of RLR Ventures (also associated with Hanover Investment Partners), both New York City–based financial advisory and private-equity firms. He was also a founder and managing director of Golden Gate Investment Advisors in Los Angeles — a venture-capital-oriented fund that provided capital to early-stage companies and oversaw the planning, capital formation, and development of small energy projects in the southwestern United States. He additionally served as Managing Director of Cedar Lane Asset Management, overseeing the Cayman Islands–based Cedar Lane Entertainment Fund.

His institutional banking career includes executive roles at Standard Chartered Bank and ANZ Investment Bank, where he worked in the structured trade finance and project finance groups. In that capacity he advised on international infrastructure projects spanning power plants, heavy industrial manufacturing, mining, and oil & gas assets, and later handled media and telecommunications financing for cellular networks, multiplex cinemas, and media ventures. More recently he has been described as CFO/COO of Pacific Lake Capital (an integrated media company), CFO of Ocean Aviation (an FBO/aviation project developer), and CFO of the emerging-markets–focused Colombia Investing.

Ricciardelli holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College (1986) and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business (1995). He holds FINRA Series 7, 63, and 79 securities registrations.

• Concentrates on renewable and alternative energy and power, with additional activity in media/entertainment, commercial real estate, and broader infrastructure.
• Works across the capital stack — equity financing, debt structuring, structured finance, and project finance — rather than only writing equity checks.
• His earlier fund, Golden Gate Investment Advisors, supplied venture capital to early-stage companies and financed small energy projects, indicating comfort with project-stage and early-stage risk.
• Serves institutional investors, family offices, and operating companies expanding in sustainable energy or undergoing digital transition.
• Deep structured trade finance and international infrastructure background (power, industrial, mining, oil & gas, telecom/media), including emerging-markets exposure such as Colombia.
• Check size, formal fund structure, and stated startup thesis are not publicly disclosed.