Leslie Carranza is the Managing Partner of Adara Capital. Prior to founding Adara Capital, Ms. Carranza was a Managing Director of Ridgeway Capital Group, LLC. While at Ridgeway Capital, Ms. Carranza raised in excess of $275 million for alternative investment managers in the private equity and hedge fund arena both in developed and emerging markets.

Prior to joining Ridgeway Capital in New York, Ms. Carranza served as an Executive Search Consultant conducting senior level assignments for a variety of private and public real estate owners, developers, private equity funds, family offices and investment managers. Prior to recruiting she served as an Account Executive with Bloomberg LP. Ms. Carranza spent the first eleven years of her finance career as an Institutional Taxable Fixed Income Salesperson for Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan and Cowan & Company.

Ms. Carranza earned an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.E. in Civil Engineering, graduating magna cum laude, from Villanova University.

Ms. Carranza currently holds Series 7, 63 and 79 registrations with FINRA.