Privately Speaking: Joe Giannamore of AnaCap Financial Partners

What happens when you launch a private equity firm dedicated to investing in financial services at a time when asset valuations are so madly inflated you can’t find anything to buy? You adjust your strategy and build start-ups. But then what do you do when Lehman Brothers blows up and turns an already challenging predicament into something altogether more dangerous? Throw in the towel? In his first ever interview, AnaCap Financial Partners founder Joe Giannamore, a former internet entrepreneur and horse riding professional, explains to Philip Borel how and why his firm has managed to get through it all

Joe Giannamore likes to talk, and there are certain words he loves to use. ‘Sequencing’, for example. Sequencing matters. Because when you’re Joe Giannamore, sequencing how to tackle a problem step by step is a big part of what you do.

 If you do it well, you give yourself a chance to succeed even when the odds look stacked against you.