Salvatore Massaro

Salvatore ("Sal") A. Massaro is a co-founder and Managing Director of EGL, which he helped establish in 1988. EGL operates both as a venture capital investor (EGL Ventures) and as a merchant/advisory bank (EGL Holdings), backing and advising middle-market entrepreneurs across "high tech to no tech" industries. Massaro is credited as one of the firm's General Partners and has spent his career directing mergers, acquisitions, fundraisings, and investment transactions — the firm reports more than 200 completed transactions since its founding.

Before co-founding EGL, Massaro built a career in private equity, investment banking, and financial management spanning more than two decades. He worked at Prudential-Bache Venture Capital, served as Chief Financial Officer at Telesphere International, and was a member of Price Waterhouse's Management Advisory Services Group. This mix of operating (CFO), advisory (Big-Eight consulting), and institutional venture experience underpins EGL's hands-on, operator-friendly approach to backing companies.

Massaro earned a B.S.B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has been active in the venture and SBIC (Small Business Investment Company) community: he served as Regional President of SORASBIC (the Southern Regional Association of SBICs, roughly 1998–1999) and as a member of the Board of Governors of NASBIC (now the SBIA). He has also been a board member of the Atlanta/Southern Capital Forum since 1990 and served on the board of Metabolic Testing Systems, Inc., among various EGL portfolio-company advisory roles.

• Invests through EGL Ventures in early- and growth-stage companies, with a stated preference for information technology, telecommunications, and healthcare products and services sectors.
• Takes a broad, sector-agnostic "high tech to no tech" view via EGL Holdings — including specialty chemicals, consumer goods, manufacturing, and professional/business services — reflecting a middle-market entrepreneur focus rather than a single vertical.
• Pairs capital with operating and corporate-finance expertise: M&A advisory, senior/subordinated debt and equity sourcing, strategic partnerships, and business development — a hands-on, "shepherd to growth, merger, or acquisition" model.
• Emphasis on companies EGL can help grow toward an exit (acquisition or IPO); the firm's track record skews toward companies later acquired or taken public rather than pure venture write-offs.
• Geographic focus on the U.S. (Atlanta / Southeast base) with selective cross-border (U.K./Europe) transactions.