Silversmith Capital Partners Promotes Rafael Urdaneta to Chief Financial Officer

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Silversmith Capital Partners today announced the promotion of Rafael Urdaneta to Chief Financial Officer. Since joining Silversmith in 2018 as Vice President of Finance, Raf has played an integral role in all finance and compliance related matters of the of the firm.

“Over the past four years, Raf has developed into a leader internally,” said Silversmith Managing Partner, Jim Quagliaroli. “His technical knowledge, incredible work ethic, and his strategic mindset has served the firm well as he has guided the day-to-day activities of the finance and compliance functions. We are very excited to promote him to CFO.”

Raf has over 15 years in finance and accounting experience. Prior to Silversmith, Raf served as a Controller at Summit Partners where he was actively involved in all aspects of the management company. He also provided support to Summit’s fund and compliance teams. Previously, Raf was a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Asset Management Practice focusing on alternative investments. He received his MBA, MS, and BS in Accounting from the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University.

About Silversmith Capital Partners
Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with $2.0 billion of capital under management. Silversmith’s mission is to partner with and support the best entrepreneurs in growing, profitable technology and healthcare companies. Representative investments include ActiveCampaign, Appfire, Centauri Health Solutions, DistroKid, impact.com, Iodine Software, LifeStance Health, Panalgo, Unily, Upperline Health, Validity, and Webflow. The partners have served on the boards of numerous successful growth companies including ABILITY Network, Archer Technologies, Dealer.com, Liazon, Liberty Dialysis, MedHOK, Passport Health, SurveyMonkey, and Wrike. For more information about Silversmith, please visit www.silversmith.com.