Uwe Deher

Uwe DeherPartner Germany

Uwe has a degree in Economics and in Psychology from Mannheim University. He has been working for years at one of the best strategy advisers in Germany. He had established and ran operations in China, India, and Malaysia within healthcare industry.

Uwe gained valuable expertise in pharmaceutics and medical technologies as well. His strengths are laying in strategy and corporate governance, in restructuring and optimization.

Michele Polini

Michele PoliniPartner Italy

Michele's professional path is an amazing combination of tradition and innovation. He has been working in the automotive and consumer goods industries and gained sound experience in innovative distribution and logistic solutions on the fragmented European market. Michele is an expert in M&A, organisation and post merger support integration.

Stephen Knight

Stephen KnightPartner UK

A former advertising executive with 23 years experience, Stephen has held a variety of positions at major international agencies including Bates, Lowe Howard Spink and WCRS. Previous clients included GM, Lloyds Bank, BMW United Distillers, The Post Office, BT and JVC Five years with the Walt Disney Company latterly as Senior Vice-President and Head of Marketing and Brand management for Europe, Middle East & Africa.

Having worked successfully above and below the line, client and agency side, he felt it time to do his own thing and founded Pimento in 2005.

Daniel Janson

Daniel JansonPartner Scandinavia

Daniel's professional path is an amazing combination of tradition and innovation. He has been working in the automotive and consumer goods industries and gained sound experience in innovative distribution and logistic solutions on the fragmented European market. Daniel is an expert in M&A, organisation and post merger support integration.

Azize Diabate

Azize DiabatePartner West Africa

Azize completed his Master of Business Administration and Finance at University of Cologne.His fields of specialisation were banking management, insurance business management an international tax law.Azize worked his whole career within the Financial Service Industry.

He has been working for leading financial institutions such as Citibank, DEG and Copa where he gained a lot of experience in the fields of Corporate banking, investment and project financing. He was in charge of a portfolio of debts, Mezzanine and Private Equity for African cooperates.Azize mission is to take care of the West African territory and to introduce the highest quality service standards for its clients.

Ronny Showkat

Ronny ShowkatManaging Partner Middle East & South & Soth East Asia

Ronny took his higher education from Vaxjo University and continued in the US with an EMBA from UCLA and along with this he obtained a degree in Intellectual Property Rights.This led him into positions at the Universal music publishing, WanerChapelmusic, McKinsey and MTG.

Mr. Showkat is an early age entrepreneur who has worked with world leading media houses, entertainment companies along with Venture Capital firms. He holds a Master in marketing and has 10 years experience in managing SME business on the global arena. Recently he joined Xeon International as Managing Partner for the Middle East and South& South East Asia Region.

Rahul Patwardhan

Rahul PatwardhanPartner India

Rahul is the Founder of IndiaCo Ventures Ltd, and has over 18 years of experience in venture capital investing, general management and technology product management. He has personally invested, mentored and advised several mid-sized and large corporations.

He is a Former member of the Advisory Committee for the Department of Science and Technology (STEP) and Chairman of the Incubation Committee of the NIF (National Innovation Foundation) of India. He was awarded by the Indian Economic Development Association (IEDRA) for "Outstanding Contributions to National Development.

Peihua Zhu

Peihua ZhuPartner China

An entrepreneur with a high degree of business acumen, Peihua has a great knowledge about different cultures around the globe and a deep understanding of the market dynamics in China.

Peihua is a strategist, a relationship builder, a man that has achieved leadership in communication. His communication talents have allowed the development of a strong network on both sides of the globe.

Faisal Islam

Faisal IslamPrincipal USA

Faisal Islam was active as an Investment Banker with The Anex Group prior to joining Xeon International. Previously, he worked for sixteen years in the Chemical Industry for various divisions of a publicly traded chemical company. His responsibilities included research and development, operational management and regulatory affairs.

Faisal has a master's degree from The Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from The Merrick School of Business in Baltimore. Faisal has transactional experience in biotech, energy, retail chemicals, micro-finance and agriculture. He has created a dealflow of more than $200MM in South East Asia.

Wendy Abner

Wendy AbnerPartner USA

Wendy holds a Masters and Bachelors degree in Finance and over 10 years experience in banking and mortgage lending of residential and commercial projects across the United States. As a "by referral only adviser", Wendy delivers world class service and wows her clients. She wants their business for life, not one transaction.

Her purpose is to deliver such an incredible service to them that they share their experience with her to their friends, family and neighbours. Wendy negotiates the hundreds of pages of documents as well as the over 50 people involved during the transaction to ensure everyone is on their toes and working towards the Celebration.

Marty Schaeffer

Marty SchaefferPartner USA

Marty is an experienced and accomplished management executive, having spent over 25 years as a senior retail manager, building and developing companies ranging in volume from $25 million to $1.5 billion in annual sales, and managing up to 7500 associates. Upon retiring from retail, Marty began working in financial services, serving clients in the acquisition and financing of real estate, and helping clients with life insurance, retirement planning, and health care needs.

He currently works with developers in the preparation of business plans and financial statements for funding purposes. Marty earned a MBA in Marketing, and also holds a Real Estate and Mortgage Sales License, and a Life & Health Insurance Sales License.

John Nielsen

John NielsenPartner USA

John began his 15 years mortgage banking career in Denver, Colorado. He served various capacities from Vice President of Secondary Marketing to President in wholesale/retail mortgage banking.

John has been involved with the underwriting, system integration, marketing and origination of various real estate loans on properties throughout US and abroad. John holds broker licenses from multiple states and held various financial licenses with the National Association of Securities Dealers.

Giancarlo d'Elia

Giancarlo d'Elia Managing Director

Giancarlo is a powerful business transformer with a sound knowledge in growth management issues. He has a track record as a top management professional with a natural talent for people and figures. Giancarlo disposes of powerful business acumen and truly international experience of more than 20 years.

He went through all strategic positions in growth management issues and performed as a company CEO, international development with sustained growth. He is transferring his experience as a visiting professor at a French university to MBA graduates. As the CFO of Xeon International Giancarlo is the guardian of the company's philosophy and values.

Srini Chakwal

Srini Chakwal Vice President Global Investments

Srini focus on investments for emerging markets. He has a fast experience in Private Equity and Venture Capital mostly with early stage and expansion Investment strategies. He is specialized in securitization transaction including IPO's, block trades, turn around, share offerings, mergers and acquisitions, PIPE and reverse merger.

His in-depth understanding of market dynamics and competitive intelligence in tracking current and future portfolio developments helps him to identify long-term growth strategies for portfolio companies. Srini is particularly strong in identifying and executing strategic initiatives for portfolio companies and especially in enhancing shareholder value. He has a particular talent for the Design and implementation of Private Equity and Hedge Fund strategies. Srini is guardian of the Xeon International Global Investment Vision

Carlo Alberto Montagna

Carlo Alberto Montagna President of the Board

Carlo Alberto has a sound track record in the banking industry where he has covered a number of leading roles in prestigious institutions.

With more than 20 years of business experience in asset and fund management Carlo Alberto has been board member of several leading investment vehicles and management companies. His truly international financial experience acquired by working in international financial institutions throughout Europe gives a hedge to the management team.

Carlo Alberto's role is to support the team in the deal closing process.

Charles Smethurst

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Charles has a long track record in the industry where he worked for many years in different leading positions. He started his career in the financial services when he first established his own company and he started working in parallel in the property development. He joined Nordland GmbH in Langenhagen, Germany, and soon became a leading manager and running a "company within the company" in charge of property development projects where he was responsible for its success in the region.

During this period more and more requests came from foreign investors, private as well as institutional. Charles decided to concentrate fully on the international market and founded a dedicated company with the mission to offer German properties to international investors. Charles's role in our team is to lead the real estate investments.

Lars-Fredric Hansson

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Lars is an experienced top manager with a long lasting business track record. He dispose of more than 25 years in the financial industry where he has hold several leading positions in major financial institutions.

Lars has specialized in the energy sector where he was instrumental to the funding of large projects in the renewable and conventional energy sector.

Lars role in the team is to lead energy related investments.

Luis Hidalgo

Luis Hidalgo Senior Partner

Prior to joining Xeon International Luis gathered experience in the field of finances, banking and distribution in major financial institutions and companies. Luis is known for his strategic vision and expansion power, sometimes including acquisitions of companies.

He has been working alongside Rothschild and BNP Paribas for many years. Top executive with a proven track record, Luis's opinion is often demanded by the media. As the COO of Xeon International, Luis is guardian of the service and product delivery.

Maciej Waloszyk

Maciej Waloszyk Investors Account Manager

Maciej is a young professional with truly pan-european experience. During his career he has been holding positions in the fields of client relationships and marketing in Poland, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg. His education in political science provided him with exceptional personal skills which he successfully applies in business.

To expand his professional horizon's Maciej has also accomplished Entrepreneurship and Innovation studies at the Luxembourg Business Academy. Maciej is an outcome oriented team player permanently seeking for challenges. At Xeon International, Maciej is heading the team responsible for contacts with the investors.

Miroslav Mihaylov

Miroslav Mihaylov Investor Contact Manager

A Customer Experience professional with continued success in driving top and bottom-line performance in a diverse range of Industry sectors worldwide.

Passionate about delivering exceptional client service. Experience of working in several different Industries on a National and Global scale, from large multi-national to small localised companies. Experience of setting up operations in 'green-field' environments, and also improving service and revenue within existing operations.

Having many years experience within the customer service area had allowed him to have an in-depth insight to drive long term client loyalty and advocacy.

Adam Pewny

Adam Pewny IT & Investor Knowledge Base Manager

Adam is a IT engineer with a hands on practice and excellent education. He accomplished Computers Engineering studies in Poland and Network Computing at Napier University in Edinburgh. During his career he has been an entrepreneur, but also worked as a project manager for several companies in Europe including the governmental organization. Adam has a wide range of interests among which the most important is photography. Such passion enables him to put some art touch into the 'digital' world.

Adam joined the Xeon International team in the role of IT & Investor Knowledge Base Manager.

Ivan Garbev

Ivan Garbev Graphic Designer

Ivan is a passionate designer who studied at the New Bulgarian University. Ivan is specialized in creating corporate visual identities and web front-end developments.

He is driven to create strong conceptual designs and he believes that implementing "the aesthetic principles of design" in any visual communication will contribute to an improved communication.

Adam Pewny

Alex Dimitrova Management Assistant

Alex is a young economist studying Economics at UNWE. She gained a valuable experience working in the hospitality industry which helped her understand the importance of the fulfillment of the clients' needs.

Enthusiastic, responsive and organized are the words that can describe her best. Alexandra joined the Xeon International team in the role of management assistant.

Ventsi Vassilev

Ventsi Vassilev Managing Director of Xeon International South East Europe

Venzi has been working with Arthur Anderson in Sofia prior to setting up his own business. He has expertise in Accounting and Tax Planning matters especially in the fields of Strategic Financial Planning, Financial Reporting, Taxation Consultancy, Tax Planning, Internal Audit and Insolvency & Liquidation.

Venzi is taking care of the South East European Region and is the administrator of our SEE operations hub. He is our senior Group Tax advisor. Venzi has studied at University of Economy – Varna as well as at the Bristol University - UK, Accounting Faculty, Degree in Economics and Accounting Student of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom, and Professional Scheme.

Dimitar Popov

Dimitar Popov Vice President

Dimitar has been working predominantly with foreign companies (Europe, USA and Canada) and holds a large international business acumen. He has expertise in the field of Business Consultancy which has led him towards main areas of knowledge in business and economical analytic processes and researches and process optimization.

Dimitar has extensive knowledge about organisational and functional analyses. He has participated in different organizational analysis and efficiency improvement projects and initiatives. Dimitar has a master's degree in Industrial Management from the Technical University – Sofia and is a Certified Associate in Project Management.

Harshawardhan Sabale

Harshawardhan SabalePartner India

Harshawardhan has almost 16 years of work experience of which 10 have been spent in private equity and 6 years prior to that strategy, business process, technology and financial consulting

His private equity career spans startups, expansion capital and buy outs. He set up his own USD 50 million dedicated SME buyout fund after spending 4 years with Navis Capital ("Navis"), one of Asia's leading SME buyout funds.

Harshawardhan set up Navis' India practice from scratch and was instrumental in making Navis the single most prolific and successful buyout fund in India including a track record that generated an IRR of >70%. In 2008, the Mint newspaper (Indian edition of the Wall Street Journal) mentioned him as one of the 3 rising faces of private equity in India in relation to SME investing.

Praveena Chandra

Praveena ChandraPartner India

Praveena has around 8 years of combined experience in arena of advanced materials and their characterization, technology transfer, patent landscaping and techno-market mapping

She has mentored several small & mid-size international firms in their product development activities associated with advanced materials like semiconductors, polymers, composites, etc.

She was involved in a number of research projects related to advanced materials like semiconductors, bioactive ceramics, polymers, composites, including carbon-carbon composites for fuel cell applications

Ashwani Rathore

Ashwani RathorePartner India

An entrepreneur at heart and an engineer by training, Ashwani has successfully created and exited from three ventures.His latest venture was online food catering which won him various awards and recognitions. He works closely with portfolio teams and clients assisting them in gap analysis, operational analysis and technology up gradation.

Ashwani has a combined experience of 5 years in the fields of software, hospitality and venture capital.

Som Chatterjee

Som ChatterjeePartner India

Som has 10 years of experience in the field of venture capital investment. He works closely with portfolio teams and clients assisting them in gap analysis, financial analysis and operational analysis. He was also actively involved in the merger and acquisition for the portfolio companies and exit strategy for few portfolio companies.

Being a process oriented person, Som is responsible for the development of the Investment Manager's operating procedures and ensuring the smooth running of opportunities assessment, pipeline development, investment banking, investor relationship and fund raising.

Pierre-Yves Augsburger

Pierre-Yves AugsburgerSenior Investment Advisor

With a master from HEC Lausanne (Switzerland) and an industrial background, Pierre-Yves entered the financial industry more than two decades ago and he's been ever since occupying executive international positions.

Pierre-Yves has spent many years working in leading private banking and wealth managers. At home in the Swiss and Luxembourgish financial industry he is the reference for our clients in terms of reliability and follow-up of their requirements.

Philippe Debatty

Philippe DebattyAssets & Risk Allocation Expert

Philippe is the man behind the realization of the Dynamic Asset Allocation Process (DAAP). With more than twenty five years experience in the banking and investment industry he's set up his own company before joining the Xeon International alliance with Fuchs & Associes.

Today Philippe is instrumental to implementing client's risk profile and ensuring the best possible matching with clients' investment objectives.

Timothe Fuchs

Timothe FuchsClient's & Marketing Specialist

Philippe is the man behind the realization of the Dynamic Asset Allocation Process (DAAP). With more than twenty five years experience in the banking and investment industry he's set up his own company before joining the Xeon International alliance with Fuchs & Associes.

Today Philippe is instrumental to implementing client's risk profile and ensuring the best possible matching with clients' investment objectives.