Partner and Co-Founder of Claros DD where she conducts background research and first-person interviews. Based in the U.S. and Italy, Tiziana worked as a Reuters correspondent for 28 years, reporting on popes, mobsters, fraudsters and political crises. She started her career writing about the growing Italian public debt from Milan and moved on to cover economics, M&A and investing. In the last ten years, she has been carrying out due diligence research for investment firms and corporations. She enjoys understanding the ins and outs of a good business and the people who lead them, as well as the perils and pitfalls of long-term investments. She enjoys talking to people and has made more than 2,000 due diligence calls.

She speaks her native Italian, English and Spanish.

Email: tiziana [at] clarosdd.com

Partner and Co-Founder of Claros DD where she works as researcher, editor and client relations manager. Liz is based in Madrid and has more than 25 years’ experience interviewing businesspeople thanks to her background in international communication, due diligence research and journalism. In 2023 she founded Claros with Tiziana Barghini to help investors delve into what makes a winning leadership and culture. Earlier she worked as a communications advisor, writer and researcher in business intelligence. Before that, she was a correspondent for Reuters news agency in Europe specialising in listed companies. She is innately curious and loves interviewing people from all walks of life.

She has a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Liverpool, in her home city, and speaks Spanish, French and English. 

Email: liz [at] clarosdd.com

Partner at Claros DD and acts as an editor and project manager. John was an editor and  chief of reporters at Forbes in the heyday of business magazines in the 1980s and 1990s. Later he turned to buy-side research, working directly with portfolios managers at several investment firms and managing projects at third-party research providers. Building on his journalism background, his expertise lies in due-diligence field research: contacting former employees and other knowledgeable sources to learn about management capability, product differentiation, and how well or poorly a company is positioned in its market.

A life-long New Yorker, he moved to rural Berkshire County, MA with his wife a few years ago where they are restoring a nineteenth century barn and taming an old, overgrown cow pasture. 

Email:  john [at] clarosdd.com