The Team

Pavlos Stellakis

Chairman & CEO, Pavlos has broad corporate experience in both the UK and Continental Europe, with over twenty five years involvement in Investment Banking, Private Equity and Consultancy and having been on the Boards of several private and public companies, including main Board positions at NBG and Hill Samuel Bank where he was Head of European Investment Banking. Pavlos is the Founder of NBGI, a London and New York based investment banking goup where he is President & CEO.

Pavlos is an Economics graduate and holds a masters degree in Applied Economics from Oxford University.

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Yannis Voyatzis

Prior to joining NBGI Private Equity in December 2006, Yannis was a Vice President at Citigroup Venture Capital International in London, where he was responsible for originating, structuring and executing private equity transactions in Central Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. Before joining Citigroup in April 2000, Yannis worked as a Senior Consultant at Chemintel, a London based consulting firm specializing in the petrochemicals industry.

Yannis holds an MBA from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France, and an MEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK.

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Mete Ikiz

Mete is an Investment Director of NBGI Private Equity’s Turkey Fund. Prior to NBGI Private Equity, Mete worked in investment banking for 13 years leading many primary and secondary public offerings and M&A transactions. Before joining NBGI Private Equity, Mete worked for a year as the Assistant General Manager responsible for Corporate Finance of Unicorn Capital, owned by Unicorn Investment Bank which has operations in Turkey and the MENA Region. From 1997-2007, Mete was the Head of Corporate Finance at Yapi Kredi Invest, where his main business responsibilities included originating, structuring and executing investment banking transactions.

Mete holds an MBA from Bentley College in Boston and a BA degree from Bogazici University in Istanbul.

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Stelios Fragos

Stelios joined NBGI Private Equity in May 2009, with 7 years of experience in advising on corporate finance transactions and in strategy consulting. He previously was an Associate Director at NBGI, heading the M&A team for the SEE region, where he worked on a variety of corporate finance advisory and equity capital market transactions across sectors, advising both the private and the state sector. Prior to joining NBGI, Stelios also worked as a strategy consultant for Mars & Co. advising a range of international leading blue-chip corporate clients in key projects in Europe and the US.

Stelios holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Yale University.

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Levent Yesildag

Prior to joining NBGI Private Equity, Levent worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse in New York and UBS Investment Bank in London where he worked on M&A and leveraged finance transactions focusing on the industrials sector. Before business school, Levent worked as Vice President of Finance and Business Development at Demirdag Ltd., a private company trading construction materials in Turkey and as a Senior at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Istanbul, Turkey.

Levent holds an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York and a BS in Economics from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.

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