Biography
John Cristiano is a Partner with Grant Thornton’s Transaction Advisory Services. He is a highly skilled senior financial executive and team leader with over 20 years of experience analyzing companies and industries and delivering value-added, actionable advice to clients to help them make more informed business decisions. Cristiano has completed over 200 M&A due diligence engagements exceeding $20 billion in transaction value for private equity and strategic corporate clients across a spectrum of industries, including financial services, technology/media, manufacturing, retail, and aerospace and defense. He has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures including buy- and sell-side due diligence, performance analysis and improvement, forecasting and modeling, integration/separation, and enterprise valuation.
Before joining Grant Thornton, Cristiano was a managing director of corporate finance with FTI Consulting. Earlier, he was an equity analyst with UBS Investment Bank, Robertson Stephens and Prudential Securities. He began his career at Ernst & Young.
Industries
- Financial services
- Manufacturing
- Technology
- Aerospace and defense
- Retail
Service experience
- Advisory
- Transaction advisory
Professional qualifications and memberships
CPA — New York