Callisto Capital Advisors SMPC (IKE)

Founded Callisto Capital Advisors SMPC (IKE) in February 2016.

Callisto Capital Advisors SMPC advises on business and finance Institutional Investors, Financial Institutions and Family Offices.

 

He led Capital Product Partners LP (Nasdaq CPLP) as CEO and CFO from Sept 2014 until summer of 2015. Prior to that and for two years he held the position of Deputy CEO and Member of the Board of National Bank of Greece Group (NBG Group). He led the negotiations with the EU DG Comp, the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) and the Bank of Greece to agree the restructuring plan of NBG Group. He also led the effort to recapitalize the Bank after the PSI (two rounds of capital raising totaling €3.6bn and debt financing of €750mil in 2013 and 2014) and the ongoing efforts to shed non-core assets to shore up capital. He chaired NBG Group’s ALCO, Asset Management Business and the Astir Palace SA (hotel and leisure business) and oversaw a number of the group’s subsidiaries including NBG’s real estate business. He served on the Board of Hellenic Exchanges SA (2012-2014).

 

He returned to NBG following two successful years with the Hellenic Republic as the Director General of Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA). As Director General of PDMA he was responsible for the voluntary restructuring of €206bn of Greek sovereign debt held by the private sector. That put him in the center of the 18month negotiations among the Hellenic Republic, the EU, the ECB, the IMF and the universe of private sector investors in Greek government debt which resulted in a nominal reduction of €106bn of debt and a NPV reduction including official sector held debt in excess of 170bn, the largest voluntary sovereign debt restructuring ever.

 

Between 1998 and 2010 he was at NBG Group as GM of Group Treasury, Global Markets and Private Banking. He led the Group’s ALCO and regional ALCOs across its Eastern European and Turkish subsidiaries, as well as developed the group’s private banking effort in South-East Europe. He was a member of the National Insurance investment committee and a board member of the National Securities Co.

 

From 1989 to 1998, Mr Christodoulou was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan London, where he was at various times in charge of European derivatives trading, member of the Bank’s proprietary trading group, the European Short Term Interest Rate Trading desk (STIRT), and Emerging Markets FX, derivatives and short term interest rate trading. Mr Christodoulou began his investment banking career at Credit Suisse First Boston in London in 1985 trading money markets and floating rate notes, before joining Goldman Sachs in 1987 to ultimately head its money market trading team in the UK before moving to Canada with the bank to trade provincial government bonds.

 

Mr Christodoulou holds an MBA (1985) from Columbia University in New York and a Bachelor of Commerce (1982) from the Athens School of Commerce and Economics (ASOEE). He financed his studies with scholarships from the Hellenic Scholarship Foundation (IKY) and the Bodossaki Foundation.