Charlie Santoro is a Vice President in Mesirow Investment Banking. He joined Mesirow as an Investment Banking Analyst in 2018. He was promoted directly to Associate in 2020 and to Vice President in 2023.

Charlie is responsible for supporting senior bankers and clients throughout the transaction process and provides valuation analysis as well as advisory services for transactions across a wide range of industries including aerospace and defense, business services, consumer and retail, distribution and supply chain, food, beverage and agribusiness, healthcare, industrials, paper, plastics and packaging and technology, among others.

Prior to joining Mesirow, Charlie served as a consultant in the Risk and Compliance group at Protiviti, where he performed due diligence on behalf of financial institutions as it relates to structured finance and asset backed lending facilities across a number of different asset classes.

Charlie graduated with high honors from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in Finance and earned his M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He holds FINRA Series 63 and 79 licenses.