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Riccardo Cannaviello is the founder of Symmetry Advisors, where he brings over 20 years of international and U.S. experience in merchant banking, dealmaking, transaction origination, high technology & life science commercialization, and entrepreneurship. As an international merchant banker, Riccardo led deal origination in Hong Kong and China for Millennium Capital Partners, a boutique firm specializing in cross-border advisory work. He initiated proprietary opportunities representing nearly $1 billion in enterprise value, including Chinadotcom which went on to be one of the most successful IPOs on NASDAQ, and he advised a leading Chinese state-owned brewing company on matters of privatization and defense from an unsolicited acquisition offer. Riccardo currently leads licensing negotiations for Zvonar Digital, a digital media technology company. Previously, Riccardo originated and led the corporate restructuring of Immersive Media Research which resulted in the spin-out of Zvonar from IMR. As a technology commercialization advisor, Riccardo played a key role in the spin-outs of a pediatric device and a cardiac device developed by the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. On behalf of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Riccardo has provided commercialization advisory services to over a dozen SBIR Ph. 2 recipient companies in the life sciences sector. As an entrepreneur, Riccardo co-founded Zybernetix, a San Diego based neurotechnology company specializing in brain-computer interfaces for the homeland security, healthcare, and videogame markets. As interim executive, Riccardo led business development efforts at Parity Computing, an unstructured data management company where Riccardo focused on customer development in life sciences and IP law, as well as in Parity's legacy market, electronic publishing. Riccardo holds an MBA from UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University. He was born in Rome, Italy.