SPAFS has a full team of qualified and experienced investment professionals

making up the management team.

 

They are complemented by professionals in the fields of compliance and risk management, legal and accounting department and in the back office. The management team of SPAFS has a long track record since 1996 and it specializes in financial engineering, wealth management, asset management, structured investment products modeling and alternative investment advisory. We have successfully worked in partnership with some of the global banks in the industry and developed our wide network of industry contacts, providing us access to an array of information, deals and products to match our clients’ unique needs. We have been and continue to be highly motivated and adaptive to client needs in a very open minded and flexible way. We have the ability to work on a variety of business projects in different geographic regions at the same time and to identify market niches, design realistic working relationships and products and to fully implement them.

 

We have been acting as an investment advisor to a number of global institutions, pension funds and family offices with alternative investment assets under management in excess of $60 billion. We have managed several significant investment transactions and have advised on portfolio construction and allocations of over $1.5 billion to alternative asset classes including hedge funds, funds of funds, private equity funds, equity financing transactions and customized structured products. We have been involved in a variety of deals and have successfully penetrated several diverse markets around the world. We have a strong client base extending to Russia and other CIS countries, Middle East, Japan, South Korea, Eastern Europe and other European countries.

 

Given our successful transactions over the last few years, the management team has become a trusted business advisor to many clients and is called upon for advice and support on an ongoing basis. Substantial referral work from existing clients and from the reputation created is diverted to the management team because of the successful and efficient implementation of previous projects. Our close ties with the investor community and capital allocators provide us with a unique insight into the global capital markets. This insight guides the advice and customized solutions we provide to our clients and sets us apart from all other advisors in the region.


Executive Director

Gabriel is one of the founders and a managing director of SPA Financial Services Ltd. Since 1996 Gabriel Anastassiades specializes in structured finance, structured investment products modeling, asset management,alternative investment advisory and equity financing, collaborating with some of the global banks in the industry...

Executive Director

George is an Executive Director and General Manager of SPA Financial Services Ltd. From 2007 until 2010, he was the Group General Manager and an Executive Director of Axia Ventures Group Ltd (AVG),...

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Andis Scordis holds a law degree from Athens University, Greece and Diploma in Shipping Law from the University College , University of London, UK. Mr. Scordis is a practicing lawyer since 1970 and one of the founders and senior partners of Scordis, Papapetrou and Co LLC...

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Michalis Papapetrou holds a law degree from Athens University, Greece and Diploma in Shipping Law from the University College, University of London, UK and he is a practicing lawyer since 1972 and one of the founders and senior partners of Scordis, Papapetrou and Co LLC...

Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr. Panayiotis Siakkas is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA). He studied at Manchester University, UK where he graduated with First Class Honors in Economics, Finance & Accounting.He then trained at Coopers & Lybrand in London where he qualified and returned to Cyprus in 1993 to join the family business...

Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr. Yiangos Kleopas holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge and he is a member of MENSA International. From 1975 to 2006 Mr. Kleopas worked for Marfin Laiki Group, rising up the ranks to become a member of the group’s senior management...