Michele Valenti joined Resource Capital Funds in December 2016, after having served as global chief operating officer of private equity at Deutsche Bank. Ms Valenti was with Deutsche Bank for 17 years and held various chief operating officer and business management roles in the Bank’s private equity, infrastructure, real estate and hedge funds units in New York. She also held chief operating officer and business development roles with Deutsche Bank in their Emerging Market Equities and Latin America divisions. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Ms Valenti was with Nomura Securities, Merrill Lynch and Mahoney Cohen & Company. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Accounting and International Business) from New York University and was a Certified Public Accountant (New York).