Marco Franceschini

Marco Franceschini is Global Head of Client Engagement at Waystone, responsible for strengthening client relationships, enhancing the client experience and supporting the firm’s continued growth across its global platform. He has more than 20 years of experience spanning alternative investments, financial technology, capital markets and strategic client management, with deep expertise in building businesses, developing institutional relationships and delivering technology-enabled solutions to the asset management industry.

Throughout his career, Marco has successfully led high-performing teams, driven commercial growth and developed long-term partnerships with asset managers, private markets firms, institutional investors and financial services providers. He brings extensive experience working with C-suite stakeholders and helping organisations navigate growth, operational change and evolving client demands.

Prior to joining Waystone, Marco served as Director and Head of Private Markets Relationships at BlackRock for Aladdin in the Americas, where he led strategic client relationships across the private markets ecosystem. He previously held senior leadership roles at fintech platform Eleven and Bloomberg, helping to build and scale technology solutions for the alternative investment industry. Earlier in his career, Marco spent a decade with Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking in a series of client relationship and business development roles where he helped create a client franchise and grow the wallet with asset managers in the alternatives space.

Marco holds a Master’s in European Business from ESCP-EAP and a BA (Hons) in Modern European Studies from University College London. He is fluent in English, French and Italian and has a working knowledge of Spanish.