Lindsay Patrick is Managing Director and Head of Strategic Initiatives and ESG at RBC Capital Markets. She leads the Sustainable Finance Group, and with her team, spearheads the provision of solutions and advice for RBC’s institutional and corporate clients across all areas of sustainable finance that incorporates both environmental and social perspectives. Lindsay is also responsible for the advancement of the RBC Capital Markets’ business strategy, supporting the firm’s overall growth and performance ambitions. Lindsay has two decades experience in investment banking, spanning trading floors across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
Vito Sperduto is a Managing Director and Co-head of Global Mergers and Acquisitions at RBC Capital Markets. He is responsible for the bank’s overall M&A effort across all industry sectors. Vito has almost 30 years of investment banking experience, during which he has advised on over 200 transactions with a combined value exceeding $250 billion, including advising Raytheon Company on its $90 billion merger with United Technologies Corporation and $2 billion acquisition of Websense from Vista Equity Partners; and Houghton International on its $1.5 billion merger with Quaker Chemical. Historically, he has extensive sector experience with origination and execution of transactions in general industrials and diversified services (with a focus on aerospace, defense and government services), communications, media and entertainment, technology, business services, and consumer and retail.
Prior to RBC, Vito was most recently Managing Director and Head of Software M&A coverage for CIBC World Markets in New York, where he worked across the defense, consumer, business services and technology sectors. He has previously worked for SoundView Technology Group, Smith Barney and Kidder, Peabody.
Vito is a member of RBC’s U.S. Regional Operating Committee, RBC’s U.S. Investment Banking Management Committee. He is an active leader of RBC’s community service programs (including, co-captain of the RBC's New York Race for the Kids) and diversity initiatives (including, co-executive sponsor of RBC PRIDE USA). Vito is the Chairman of the Board of Play Rugby USA (using rugby as a tool to mentor over 3,000 NYC children ages 8 to 18). He earned his B.A. from Harvard University in Computer Science / Engineering Sciences.
