ABOUT US
Neweleven Capital invests in selected companies and sectors , focusing primarily in Greece and offers advisory services to institutional investors and companies.
We are primarily focused on three core sectors: Food & Beverages, Technology and Tourism, while we are flexible to look at special situations and deep value opportunities outside those areas.
We provide capital and strategic resources and we work in partnership with management teams to help companies create value by improving their organizations, creating synergies, optimizing capital structures and expanding in new products and markets outside Greece.
We are flexible to invest in various types of transaction and/or co-invest with other investors that share the same values with us. Our mandate allow us to invest on different stages such as Expansion, Growth, Acquisition.
We typically take a minority shareholding, but a majority is also possible .
Food & Beverage
Food and Beverage – We focus at food processing companies and agribusiness. We look for companies that want to exploit further their export potential, either through product development or market expansion. We are also interested in companies that invest in the efficient use of primary resources.
technology
Technology – We specifically look at companies, across cycles that are involved in Internet of Things, Security, Big Data Analytics and Smart TV.
tourism
Tourism – We are interested in both hospitality and tourism service companies.
Our team works together with corporates and institutional investors sharing our deep knowledge and expertise in transactions involving Greek assets.
Our team has been involved in numerous transactions during the last years and has a deep understanding of the local corporate and banking ecosystem. We work together with institutional investors and corporates, helping them identify, evaluate and obtain various types of distress and non-distress assets.
We have an on-going dialogue with domestic industry leaders, bankers and other market participants and we use our deep local knowledge and relationships to provide updates and insights for the sector in focus.
Neweleven Capital offers independent and comprehensive buy-side advisory services that indicatively include corporate and government access, consistent sourcing of investment projects, identification and approaching potential acquisition targets, advising during the negotiation process, proposals on the most suitable transaction structure, coordination or the acquisition process, debt restructuring and value added post acquisition services.
DISTRESSED ASSETS
Iraklis Kounadis
Iraklis Kounadis is the founder of Neweleven Capital. Over the past 25 years he served in several management and Board positions within the Greek investment banking sector. Iraklis was the CEO of Investment Bank of Greece from 2002 to 2011. Under his management IBG was transformed from a small domestic broker to Greece’s leading brokerage & investment bank with international presence and leading market shares. From 2010 to 2011, Iraklis served as deputy CEO in Marfin Egnatia Bank.
Costis Sinanidis
Costis Sinanidis has 18 years of experience in financial analysis both in the sell and the buy side, in sectors such as banks, energy, food & bev, gaming and retail. Costis was for many years the Director of Research and then Director of Equity Sales in Investment Bank of Greece, a leading Greek brokerage. Both his teams have been ranked several times in the top 3 positions for Greece Research and Sales by Reuters Extel. Until recently, Costis served as a member of the European Securities Network executive committee.
Sofia Tiniakou
Sofia Tiniakou has 15 years of experience in senior private banking and wealth management positions in UK and Greek firms. During these years, Sofia managed the balance sheets of high net wealth individuals and provided advice on strategic asset allocation decisions. Sofia has also a 5 year experience in the Greek Tourism industry serving at a senior management position in one of Greece’s largest hotel chains.
George Theodoris
During the last 25 years, George has exceled his general management, corporate finance and investment banking skills through top management roles in the strategy consulting, financial services and food & beverage sectors. Under his capacity either as CFO or CEO has served at the boards of international and local corporates and financial institutions and successfully led various business reorganizations and growth strategy projects. He received his MBA from McGill University in Montreal and his MEng in computer engineering from the University of Patra. He currently serves as a commissioner at the Hellenic Gaming Commission, the regulator of off-line and on-line gambling markets in Greece.
Dimosthenis Kyriazis
Dimosthenis Kyriazis received his diploma from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2001 and his MSc degree in “Techno-Economics” in 2004. Since 2007, he holds a PhD in the area of Service Oriented Architectures with a focus on quality aspects and workflow management from NTUA. His expertise lies with service-based, distributed and heterogeneous systems, software and service engineering. As a Senior Research Engineer of the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)of NTUA, he has participated in several EU and National funded projects leading research related to distributed computing. He is currently a Lecturer at University of Piraeus, focusing research on virtualization technologies, techniques of the Internet of things domain and approaches for big data.
Elena Dagia
Elena has graduated from the Economic University of Economics and Business in 2009. She joined Neweleven Capital in 2014, as a junior support analyst. Elena has 6 years of experience in the Greek banking and legal services sectors.
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by email:
info@newelevencapital.com
by call:
tel: (+30) 210 6814901/911 fax: (+30) 2106814911
by location:
105 Dionisou Av.,
14572 Drosia,
Athens
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