Ms. Antenucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of 3Wire. With three decades of experience in investment banking, Ms. Antenucci has amassed expertise in corporate strategy, M&A, and financing. She has collaborated with a broad spectrum of Fortune 500 and international corporations, start-ups, innovators, private equity groups, and family offices. Her M&A clients have included the world’s largest aerospace and defense companies, such as General Dynamics, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, and TransDigm, and the most accomplished industry investors, such as AE Industrial, Carlyle, J.F. Lehman, Huntsman Family Investments, and Veritas Capital.

Prior to founding 3Wire, Ms. Antenucci spent 20 years at Houlihan Lokey, where she built and led the Aerospace, Defense, and Government practice, along with starting the firm’s Business Services and Transportation practices. She was a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Board of Directors through its IPO in August 2015. Prior to Houlihan Lokey, Ms. Antenucci was a founding member and Co-President of Quarterdeck Investment Partners (later Jefferies Quarterdeck), a boutique M&A merchant banking firm in ADG industries.

Ms. Antenucci received an M.A. in Strategic Studies from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Political Science from Northwestern University, and she has studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques. In addition to being a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, she is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, a Director at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) and the Conservation Innovation Fund, and a Life Director at the Space Foundation. Ms. Antenucci is also a Board Member of TSE-listed AirBoss of America Corp.