Lance Vitanza

Lance Vitanza is a Managing Director, Senior Research Analyst, and Digital Asset Strategist in TD Cowen's Equity Research Group.

In his role as Digital Asset Strategist, Mr. Vitanza publishes thematic research on digital assets and the evolving intersection of capital markets, financial services, blockchain, distributed ledger technologies, and other emerging digital asset-related business models. His work spans bitcoin and digital asset treasury companies, market structure, digital payments, tokenization, and the broader implications of digital asset adoption across public markets.

Mr. Vitanza joined TD Cowen in 2016 as part of the acquisition of certain businesses from CRT. He joined CRT in 2010 as a senior research analyst covering the media and telecommunications industries.

Prior to returning to the sell side, he was a principal and senior analyst at Knighthead Capital Management, a credit-oriented hedge fund he helped launch in 2008. Before Knighthead, he spent five years as a senior analyst on the distressed and special situations desk at Concordia Advisors, a global multi-strategy hedge fund.

Prior to working on the buy side, Mr. Vitanza spent five years in leveraged finance, including positions as an associate at BT Alex. Brown and as a vice president at Goldman Sachs.

He began his career working for Dr. Arthur B. Laffer at his San Diego-based economic research and consulting firm.

Mr. Vitanza graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern California with a degree in economics.