Richard Pinto, Senior Vice President of Augustus Global, has three decades’ worth of invaluable relationships and client successes. He works closely with a diverse array of business and institutional leaders, and government decision makers and media across the U.S. and from more than two dozen countries. His clients range from foreign governments and defense firms to small cap companies and innovative start-ups.
In 2018, prior to joining August Global, Richard founded and managed the Rhode Island International Trade Center in Providence, the state’s capital. The trade center served as a preferred landing spot and incubator for dozens of foreign companies entering the U.S. market.
Previously, Richard was CEO of Fabiani Pinto, an international business development consulting firm and a sister company to Washington, D.C.-based government relations firm Fabiani & Company. He joined Fabiani & Company at its founding in early 2002.
From 2002 to 2014, Richard was based in Rome, Italy where he established, grew and managed Fabiani & Company’s international practice with offices in Milan, Bologna, London and Brussels. During this period, Richard and his account teams sourced, signed and serviced client accounts totaling more than $15 million in revenue.
From 1994 to 2001 Richard was a senior consultant to both Cassidy & Associates (then Washington, D.C.’s largest lobbying firm) and its public affairs subsidiary Powell Tate.
From 1990 to 1993, he served as staff assistant to then Connecticut’s senior U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd in press, campaign, and personal aide capacities. Before heading to Washington, Richard was editor of Black Rock News, a Bridgeport, Connecticut weekly newspaper, and production coordinator with The New York Times Company Magazine Group headquartered in Trumbull, Connecticut.
Richard has traveled to 52 countries, also lived and worked in New York, London and Madrid, and speaks Spanish and Italian. He has been an active member of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and served on the boards of the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation and the American Overseas School of Rome.
Richard is a 1988 graduate of Amherst College. He is the proud father of Aristide, Luca and Livia, born in London, New York and Rome, respectively.
