The Team
Belinda Berkeley
Belinda joined NBGI Private Equity in May 2007 with 6 years
experience in advising on private equity and corporate finance
transactions. She previously worked at BDO Stoy Hayward where she gained
experience working on a variety of private equity transactions,
particularly within the retail sector.
Belinda is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a graduate in Psychology from Newcastle University.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7661 5684
Richard Babington
Richard is an
Investment Director at NBGI Private Equity. He joined having previously held
internal corporate finance positions at Elementis plc and Ascot plc, two
UK-listed companies operating in the pharmaceutical, chemical and engineering
sectors.
Richard has a particular interest in pursuing transactions in the Food,
Manufacturing and Industrial sectors and is a Board Director of investee
companies Pasta King, Peter’s Food Service and FSG.
Richard is a graduate of Brasenose College, Oxford where he read Mathematics.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7661 5659
Rupert Brown
Based initially in Edinburgh and later in London, Rupert gained experience working on a variety of private equity transactions and financial restructurings across a wide range of sectors. Rupert is a qualified Chartered Accountant and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with MA Hons in Politics.
Lawrence Dean
Lawrence is an Investment Director at NBGI Private Equity and sits on the UK Fund Investment committee. He started his career in corporate finance at SBC Warburg (now UBS), where he advised on a number of high profile deals in the industrial and support services sectors, areas which are core to NBGI's investment strategy and in which Lawrence is active in originating transactions.
Prior to joining NBGI in 2002, he was part of the team at Travelselect, a VC-backed online travel company that was successfully sold to Lastminute.com. His hands-on business experience in this role has led to an ongoing interest in travel, consumer, online businesses and related TMT opportunities.
Lawrence graduated in Economics from Durham University.
Tel: +44(0) 20 7661 5650
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.
Mark Owen
Mark has considerable experience in both private equity and industry. He was a founder director of NBGI Private Equity in 2000 following six years with Granville Private Equity Managers. Prior to that he worked for five years with Schroders Corporate Finance runningtheir private transactions team. He has also spent ten years in industry, in the US with Combustion Engineering, a diversified engineering and services group, and Champion International, a paper and building products manufacturer.
Mark graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge and has an MBA from Wharton.