Frank DiBello is President/Chief Executive Officer/Founder and Chairman of the ITV Group, a strategic and investment advisory firm for technology and aerospace companies. The Group serves domestic and international clients with strategic development and business execution issues as well as in creating integrated financing strategies for capitalization of a company’s strategic or development objectives. Mr. DiBello also serves as Managing Partner of Aerospace Capital Partners, an Infrastructure Fund directed at investments in energy, aerospace and telecommunications.
Mr. DiBello served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Florida’s Aerospace Finance Corporation, established by the Florida legislature to assist financing new and established companies applying aerospace technologies to space, aviation and defense markets. He previously served as Vice Chairman of the SpaceVest Management Group, the sponsoring organization of the SpaceVest family of investment funds, and a Managing Director and General Partner of the several SpaceVest Venture Capital Funds.
For 24 years, Mr. DiBello managed KPMG Peat Marwick’s Aerospace and Defense Industry Practice, where he advised major U.S. and European aerospace and defense companies on strategic direction and execution for global market competitiveness.
He was also founder and managing partner of KPMG’s Space and Advanced Technology Practice focused on the strategic development and financing of businesses applying advanced space and telecommunications technologies to commercial markets. Among other assignments, he had responsibility for overseeing a five-year national outreach program to support NASA’s mission of stimulating industrial interest in the International Space Station and in space-related research, development and applications.
In 1985, Mr. DiBello received the Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the Defense Department’s highest civilian honor, for his volunteer work as Board Chair and President of the United Services Organization. He was also founder of the Space Business Roundtable in Washington, D.C. Mr. DiBello has taught at the Defense Systems Management College and International Space University. He received his BS in Mathematics from Villanova University and did graduate study work at The American University and George Washington University.
Mr. DiBello has served on numerous defense and space governmental and industry related Boards and Commissions, and is a frequent industry speaker and advocate.