Michael A. Carrazza has been Chairman and Director of Patriot National Bancorp, Inc., and Patriot Bank since its recapitalization in October 2010. He is also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Solaia Capital Advisors LLC, an investment management company specializing in the acquisition and development of middle market companies. He currently serves as a director of Siena Lending Group, one of the largest independent asset-based lending platforms in North America, and RTX Fintech & Research, a CFTC regulated institutional swap trading platform.

Mr. Carrazza has more than 30 years of operating and investing experience and has led transactions across the financial services, technology, industrial, aviation, and media sectors. Before establishing Solaia Capital, Mr. Carrazza was co-founder of Bard Capital Group and worked for the executive staff at Mitchell Madison Group and Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Mr. Carrazza earned his MBA in Finance from The Stern School of Business at New York University, his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and studied at The Juilliard School.