The Team
Ventseslav Avramov
Ventseslav joined NBGI Private Equity in October 2008. Prior to that he was a senior consultant at Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services in Sofia where he gained exposure to multiple industries carrying out various projects including due diligence assignments, valuations, and lead buy-side and sell-side mandates. Additionally, he was an Account Officer in the Large Corporate Clients division of Eurobank EFG Bulgaria.
Ventseslav has a bachelor's degree from the American University in Bulgaria.
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.
Theodoros Malfas
Theodoros joined NBGI Private Equity Limited in 2001. Prior to that he worked for Laiki Bank Group in Greece, UK and Cyprus for 7 years, having held account manager and senior equity analyst positions with the credit and investment banking divisions respectively. Previously, he worked as a private equity analyst with SFS.
Theodoros graduated from University of Athens (LL.B, corporate & commercial law concentration) and attended the Corporate Finance Executive Programme at London Business School.
Omiros Millas
Omiros is an Investment Director in the SEE fund. He is also leading NBGI's proprietary deal flow origination effort across its buy-out funds and is responsible for co-investments and other business development activities.
Omiros joined NBGI's investment banking arm in 1998 and has been Head of Corporate Finance until 2009 when he assumed his current role in NBGI PE.
Omiros is a graduate of Economics and Social Policy from Royal Holloway, University of London.
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.
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.
Onur Ozyurt
Prior to joining NBGI Private Equity, Onur was a Vice President at PineBridge Investments (former AIG Investments) where he worked at several private equity transactions in Turkey and in the Middle East. Previously, he worked for a premier Turkish corporate finance boutique, where he developed expertise in M&A transactions and debt financings. Onur also worked as the Strategic Planning Manager at Deva Pharmaceuticals, where he coordinated the sale of the majority stake to a financial investor.
Onur is a graduate of Bogazici University’s Business Administration Department, and also holds an MA degree in Finance from the same university.