Roland A. DeSilva

Senior Advisor

Roland is a partner emeritus at Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips in New York, which he co-founded in 1996. Roland has completed more than 170 transactions in the media sector, notably MJH Life Sciences’ acquisition of the healthcare properties from Informa; Vestar’s acquisition of MediMedia from Cinven, The Carlyle Group and Apax Partners; Randall Publishing’s sale to Wachovia Capital Partners; and deals for companies such as Primedia, Petersen Publishing, Scholastic, CurtCo Freedom Group, Freedom Magazines, MultiMedia HealthCare, Media/Communications Partners, International Thomson Business Press, Hanley Wood and VNU. Roland served on the Authors Guild Foundation Board and is an emeritus board member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board. He currently serves as the president of 969 Park Ave Coop, is a director on the board of BallenIsles Homeowners Association and is vice chairman of World Information Transfer. 

Prior to his investment banking career, Roland served as chief executive officer, chief operating officer, international director and publisher with Thomson Corp., McGraw-Hill and Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. (Chilton Company). He was also the founder of U.S. Business Press, a nine-magazine business-to-business publishing company. He is a former member of the Long Island University Board of Trustees.