Yuri Vanetik

Yuri Vanetik is a private investor, philanthropist, and political coalition builder.

He is the principal of Vanetik International, LLC, a management consulting firm.  In the past, he served as executive within the financial sector, and advised boards and principals of public and private companies on capital formation, marketing, acquisitions and dispositions, and other strategic planning matters.  Presently, he serves on corporate boards, boards of non-profits, and political organizations.

Mr. Vanetik began his legal career, practicing corporate law with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, in Pittsburgh, PA.  Subsequently, he served as founding partner of Iger, Koehler & Vanetik, LLP, a law firm specializing in corporate governance, counseling boards of publicly traded companies and representing independent directors, and committees on which they serve.  Generally, his legal practice and experience has centered on corporate combinations, and finance.  He began his entrepreneurial career in the technology space, and subsequently moved into finance.  In the finance industry, Mr. Vanetik and funds he advises make investments in private equity transactions domestically and abroad. 

A passionate community volunteer, Mr. Vanetik serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross (Orange County).  He was appointed to the Homeland Security Council for Region 1, and serves there on the Board of Governors.  Mr. Vanetik is a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute in California, and  National Trustee for the Kennedy Center National Symphony in Washington, DC.  Recently, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Mr. Vanetik to serve on the California Criminal Justice Council.  Mr. Vanetik has been appointed to the  Advisory Board at the University of California, Irvine, Center for Unconventional Security Affairs.

In the last presidential elections, he served as State of California Co-Chair, and as All American Vice Chair for Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign, and subsequently was selected to serve on  Senator McCain’s Kitchen Cabinet. Mr. Vanetik is a major donor with the RNC (Republican National Committee - Regents, Team 100, Eagles), and has served in the financial leadership of the organization.  He is also a major donor and is active in the leadership of the RGA (Republican Governors Association).

Mr. Vanetik received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley with Highest Honors, (Phi Beta Kappa) and is an executive graduate of the Anderson Business School at UCLA (Management).  Completing further graduate research at Oxford University (Exeter College), where he was a researcher in political philosophy, Mr. Vanetik earned his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings, where he was the President of the International Law Society, and the recipient of the coveted American Jurisprudence Award.  Mr. Vanetik is also graduate of the Wharton-Spencer Stuart Directors Institute on Corporate Governance and Stanford Law School’s Directors College.  Mr. Vanetik completed SEC Institute Reporting and Audit Program.