Petros Doukas
Chairman of the Board, Capital Partners SA; President, International Chamber of Commerce, Greece
•Chairman, Capital Partners SA - Investment Banking Advisors
26 Filellinon Street
Athens 10558 Greece
•Chairman, ICC The International Chamber of Commerce -Greece
•Distinguished Fellow, Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, Washington DC
•Life-Member, The Jockey Club, The Greek Horse-Racing Authority
•fm. President, ΕΕΔΕ - The Hellenic Management Association
•fm. Member of Parliament - Attica Region
•fm. Deputy Minister of Finance
•fm. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
•fm. Chairman of the Board: PEPSICO Greece, ERICSSON Greece, AGET-HERACLES CEMENT, NOVA PAY-TV GROUP
•fm. Country Head & Treasurer, CITIBANK Greece
•fm. Vice-President, CITIBANK New York, Treasury Division
•President, The Hellenic Golf Federation
•Ph.D Econ. New York University, MBA Fin. Columbia U., MA Econ. NYU, BA Intl.' Affairs, The George Washington University (GWU)
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PETROS G. DOUKAS
Born in Athens, Greece 03/26/52
EDUCATION
1971 Athens College High-school, Athens
1974 BA in International Affairs and Economics, The George Washington University
1976 MA in Economics, New York University
1978 MBA in Finance, Columbia University
1984 Ph.D. Economics, New York University
[Studied under such notable Professors as Robert Mundell, Wassily Leontief, William Baumol, Fritz Machlup, Oscar Morgernstern, and others]
1983, 1985 Adjunct Lecturer, Economics,
•Pace University and
•Fordham University
CITIBANK
•1979-1981 Economist, Currency Forecasting Dept.
•1981-1982 Advisor, Foreign Exchange Exposure Management Advisory Dept.
•1982-1984 Dealer, Foreign Exchange Dept.
•1984-1985 Dealer, Money-Markets Trading & Positioning Dept.
•1986-1989 Country Head (General Manager) for Greece, Investment Banking Group and Country Treasurer.
•During my tenor, we registered record-high after-tax profits vs any and for all Citibank branch and country around-the-world!
•1989-1992 COUNTRY HEAD (General Manager) for Greece, Corporate Banking Group, Financial Institutions Group, Investment Banking Group, Audit, Administration and COUNTRY TREASURER.
•Similarly, during my tenure, Citibank Greece recorded its highest profits ever, and the highest return of capital employed, of all Citibank entities around the globe!
•Participated in all required and elective high-level Credit and Treasury RISK MANAGEMENT TRAINING COURSES and was responsible for overall RISK MANAGEMENT
•Successfully completed a heavy cost-reduction exercise for Citibank Athens
OTHER EXECUTIVE, NON-EXECUTIVE AND ADVISORY POSITIONS
•1996-present, CHAIRMAN and Principal of Capital Partners SA, a boutique investment banking and M&A advisory firm
•1998-2004 SENIOR ECONOMIC ADVISOR for Greece to Merrill Lynch London, Sanwa Bank London, and Eurobank Athens
•2001-2003 CHAIRMAN of the Board, AGET HERACLES CEMENT, the largest cement manufacturer in the region
•2002-2004 CHAIRMAN of the Board, Ericsson Greece (Resigned to participate in the 2004 general elections in Greece)
•2003-2004 Co-CHAIRMAN of the Board, Pepsico-Ivi Greece (Resigned to participate in the 2004 general elections in Greece)
2002-2004 CHAIRMAN of the Board, NOVA / Netmed SA/ Filmnet Television Group (a subsidiary of NASPERS’ Ltd of South Africa) (Resigned to participate in the 2004 general elections in Greece)
GOVERNMENT
STRONG EXPERIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORKINGS OF GOVERNMENT AND THE GREEK PUBLIC SECTOR
•1992-1993 DEPUTY MINISTER of FINANCE, responsible for sovereign debt management, public lands management, State Lotteries dept., etc.
•Had a leading role in the Government's very ambitious Privatization program.
•2004-2009 Elected Member of Parliament, Attica Region (40,600 votes)
•2004-2007 Deputy Minister of Finance responsible for The GENERAL ACCOUNTING (and Budget) OFFICE, State Land Holdings, Sovereign Debt Management Dept., European Funds Audit Dept., International Economic Affairs Dept., and all investment and share-holdings of the Hellenic Republic.
•Within that three-year period,
-we reduced budget deficit from 8.2% to 3.3%,
-improved the Republic’s credit rating by 3 notches,
-managed to borrow for 30- and 50-year periods at 0,30% over Bunds and at the same cost as Italy, effectively engaging in the first major lengthening of maturities ('restructuring') of Greek State debt!
•Acted as Shareholder-of-Record for the Greek State-owned companies supervising their Board of Directors
•Also drafted legislation for the new Directorate of Internal Economic Audits, on the uses of lands around Greece's coastal perimeter and a host of other initiatives.
•Also actively engaged in the very successful privatization of
-Hellenic Petroleum, of
-The Commercial Bank of Greece (to Credit Agricole of France) and of
-OTE Hellenic Telecom (to Deutsche Telekom)!
•2007-2009 DEPUTY MINISTER of FOREIGN AFFAIRS responsible of all international economic relations.
We commenced an unprecedented initiative for State visits (with the President of the Republic or organized directly by my office) to promote Greek businesses’ access to the world markets and to encourage foreign investors to invest in Greece!
CAPITAL PARTNERS
In 1996 we started-up with Mr. Thanassis Tsoukalas, Capital Partners SA, an M&A and investment banking advisory firm.
Soon, Capital Partners became the leader in banking acquisition initiation and execution, acting as Lead Advisors in the sale of Chase Manhattan Greece, Chase Manhattan Romania, Credit Lyonnais Greece, Bank of Athens, The Bank of Nova Scotia Greece, National Westminster Bank Greece, and Kerdoos Hermes stockbrokerage.
These were sold through us to other Banks or group of investors. Also we acted as Senior Advisors for the listing of Kathimerini SA Publishing Group on the Athens Stock Exchange. Similarly, active in various corporate and in shipping transactions. (See below)
ELECTED DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
.... elected in 2017 as "Distinguished Fellow" of The Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils – GFCC in Washington DC.
www.thegfcc.org | @thegfcc |
• Chairman, THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - GREECE
HELLENIC JOCKEY CLUB
•Life Member of its General Assembly
HELLENIC GOLF FEDERATION
•1999-present, President, the Hellenic Golf Federation
fm. President, ΕΕΔΕ - The Hellenic Management Association
AUTHOR of
• a 188-page tome on “Greece in the Era of the Euro”, 1999
•a 1000-page book, currently being edited for its 7th edition, on “Modern Economic and Management Theories and Classical Greek Thought”, first published in 2003
•a 800-page tome, expected to be published this coming March 2018, on "The Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Athenian Democracy".
•a 200-page tome to be published sometime early in 1019, on "25 Centuries before Marx: Socialist Ideas in Ancient Greece"
•a 200-page tome to be published in 2019 on “Ancient Greek Ideas and Thoughts on Leadership”
•a 200-page tome on “Socialist Ideas in Ancient Greece: 25 Centuries before Marx”, also to be published in 2019
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CAPITAL PARTNERS S.A.
Capital Partners SA (est. 1996), is a leading investment advisory firm headquartered in Athens, Greece. Since our founding, we have been successful in executing some of the more prestigious investment banking mandates in Greece.
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Capital Partners focuses on
(1) advising Greek companies on mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances and assisting them in concluding such transactions.
(2) advising banks in Greece on matters of business strategy,
(3) advising and arranging divestitures and acquisitions in the Greek banking sector,
(4) advising institutional investors on Greek bond, equity market developments,
(5) advising Greek corporate and shipping companies on accessing the public dept and equity markets (such as through the Athens Stock Exchange or the London Stock Exchange’s “Alternative Investment Market”).
(6) arranging bank financing for Greek corporate and shipping names,
(7) arranging private equity financing,
(8) advising investors on Greek state-owned company privatizations,
A sample of our deal credentials. We have advised:
-Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericcson on its sale of an 8% shareholding in Intracom (a transaction valued in excess of $100 million),
-The sale of Kronos Airlines to the Theodore Vassilakis Group and the creation of AEGEAN AIRLINES
-The Bank of Piraeus on its acquisition of the Chase Mahnattan Bank branch-network business in Greece,
-The Aiolos / G. Makris food distribution co. in attracting a buyer and negotiating the sale of 40% of the company’s equity (to the Melissa / Kikizas Group),
-Credit Lyonnais Greece S.A. on its retail banking business and consumer branch network in Greece to the EFG-Eurobank group,
-Credit Lyonnais on the sale of Credit Lyonnais Greece S.A. to the Bank of Piraeus,
-The Korean Hanwha Group on its sale of its majority shareholding in the Bank of Athens to the EFG-Eurobank group,
-Ergobank in its interest to acquire a controlling interest in a commercial bank in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
-The Bank of America in setting-up proprietary securities trading positions in Bulgaria, Romania, Egypt and Turkey,
-Chase Manhattan Bank in the successful divestiture of its branch in Bucarest to the National Bank of Greece,
-The National Westminster Bank in its successful divestiture of its Greek business (retail, corporate, shipping and treasury) to Piraeus Bank,
-Kraft / General Foods on its divestiture of its holding of 25% of the equity capital of ION, the largest maker of chocolates in Greece, to Kotsiopoulos Bros,
-Euromedica, a company listed on the Athens Stock Exchange (managing clinics and diagnostic centers) in arranging a $10 million syndicated loan in the local drachma market
-The acquisition with management control of a 25,8% interest in the Hellenic Duty Free Shops by a consortium led by the Heinemann, Kappe Schiphol and Aerianta groups,
-The Sale of the “Kerdoos Hermis" a leading privately held stockbrokerage firm to Attica Bank,
-The IPO and listing of Kathimerini S.A. (publisher of the leading daily newspaperKathimerini) on the Athens Stock Exchange
-The acquisition of The Royal Olympic Cruises by Louis Cruises of Cyprus,
-The acquisition by a group of ship-owners and ATE Bank of all the Greek operations and businesses of the Bank of Nova Scotia and the formation of the First Business Bank S.A.
-The financing of Queensway Navigation's "Gibraltal Bunkering Island Project".
