Our Team

Anastasio “Taso” Carayannis

Executive Chairman

Over 35 years of global investment experience in Capital Markets

Senior institutional broker, banker and executive at major Wall Street

firms Including Drexel Burnam Lambert, Smith Barney, Oppenheimer, Prudential, and Laidlaw Equities

Participated in structuring and placing more than 30 IPOs on NYSE, Nasdaq and LSE. Responsible for several cross-border M&A transactions.

Co-founded several private equity deals that exited in the capital markets

New York Institute of Finance

New York University

English, French and Greek

Nicosia, Cyprus

George Panayiotou

Executive Director – Finance, Athens Representative

Over 35 years experience of executive, Board and and advisory experience. Executive roles at Attica Bank, Hotel and Real Estate Group, Hellenic Olympic Properties et al, Athens Int’l Airport, Hellenic Bank, et al.

Board Member & Chair Audit Committee - Hellenic Development Bank of Investments

Board Member – ROK Development BV

Board Member & Chair Audit Committee – Attica Bank

Officer A – Cyprus Civil Service – 7 Yrs

MBA - MIT Sloan School of Mgt

MSc – University of Southampton

BA – University of Exeter

Greek and English

Athens, Greece

James "Jim" Melonas

Executive Director – Technology, U.S. Representative

Over 40 years of operations, finance and global corporate development experience.

Executive roles at Verizon, Ligado Networks, World Trade Center Institute (WTCI), JCDecaux, Nteligen,; Advisor to Telecom, IT, Info Security, et al sectors.

Additionally, 30 years with Verizon (Vz) in engineering, operations, finance, marketing, international & corporate development. Led major initiatives in Europe and Latin America and integration activities for the Vz mergers with NYNEX and GTE.

Mentor, NSF’s I-Corps Program and TEDCO's Network Advisor Program

Board of Advisors – U of Md School of Nursing

Board Member – WTCI Bowe Fellowship

U.S. Army-Md National Guard Veteran - 6 yrs

MBA - Sellinger School at Loyola University MD

BS - R. H. Smith School of Business, University of MD

English; Casual knowledge of Greek

Columbia, Maryland, USA

Socrates Parparinos

Executive Director - Legal

Over 18 years of experience in International, Commercial, Banking and Corporate Law. Founder and senior partner of Aliant Law’s member firm in Cyprus. He studied Law in the United Kingdom and has been a practicing lawyer since 2007.

Member of the Cyprus Bar Association, Nicosia Bar Association, and the TEP Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Legal advisor of a several licensed financial institutions, payment institutions and Cyprus investment funds, regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission.

Licensed Nominated Advisor (NOMAD) of public companies listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange.

Greek and English

Peter H. (Takis) Metaxatos

Executive Director – Leisure Maritime & Environmental

Over 40 years in civil, environmental engineering, project management and execution.

Chief Engineer and Project Manager roles at United Nation Development Program in Israel; Athens Olympic Venues; ANTIPOLLUTION S.A. in Greece; Q-FISK in Saudi Arabia,; GEOBIOLOGIKI S.A,, Greece.

Founder and Director: PHM Associates Consulting Engineers in the fields of infrastructure, marine, energy and hydraulic projects; HYDREMA-BALKAN TECHNICAL COMPANY specializing in pollution control and abatement from industrial and domestic effluents and water treatment.

Holder of many patents, author of technical scientific articles, member of the Committees for implementation of Transportation Projects and Environmental, Energy and climatic change issues for the follow-up of 1/3 of the Greek Government Budget.

President of WORLD ENGINEERS NGO, former secretary of Greek NGO Association.

Author member of the Hellenic Author’s Association.

BSc, MSc Northeastern University USA and MSc National Polytechnic University of Athens (EMP).

Greek and English. Athens, Greece Mob.+00306944310084

Constantine “Dean” Carayannis

Operations Manager

Seven years’ experience at SEE Capital Partners.

He is a detail-oriented and results-driven manager and oversees day-to-day operations, identifies and streamlines processes and systems, conducts project research and ensures firm deadlines and commitments to our constituents and clients are met.

He is a natural problem-solver and valued member of our team.

Bachelor of Arts from University of West of England (Alexander College) in Cyprus for Graphic Design.