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Anita Antenucci
Ms. Antenucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of 3Wire Partners, a investment and merchant banking firm advising and partnering on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and capital placement for aerospace, defense and government contracting companies. From 2002 to 2022, Ms. Antenucci was a Senior Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey’s Aerospace • Defense • Government practice and a member of the firm’s board of directors prior to its IPO in August 2015. Prior to that, she served as the Co-President and Managing Director of Quarterdeck Investment Partners, a boutique industry investment bank acquired by Jefferies Group in 2022. Antenucci has three decades of investment banking experience and has been involved in over 300 transactions for an array of Fortune 500 and international companies, small-caps, entrepreneurs, and private equity owners. Her clients have included most of the world’s leading aerospace/defense contractors. With degrees from Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies and Northwestern University, Antenucci is the Chair of Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre Company and a Life Director of the Space Foundation. Antenucci is also a Director at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment. Anita is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.


