Emmanuel Kountouris has over 15 years of experience in finance and treasury roles. He has worked for companies in Greece such as Olympia Development SA, Sonae Sierra Group, and Sygelidis Group in treasury and financial management positions. Most recently, he has been providing freelance private equity advisory and financial consultancy services in Athens since 2009.

1. EMMANUEL KOUNTOURIS
DATE OF BIRTH: 26/11 /1975 NATIONALITY: GREEK
Address: 20 Zefyrou street, 15351, Kantza Pallinis, Athens, Greece
E-mail: Emmanuel_kountouris@yahoo.com, Tel: +30 6944317211
Military Obligation: Fulfilled. 25 January 2002 – 26 June 2003
EXPERIENCE
01/02/2009 – Present day Freelance, Athens
Private Equity Advisory & Financial Consultancy Services
01/02/2009 – 20/10/2010
Private Equity Advisory service on a SPV hedge fund set up and buy-out project.
21/09/2010 – Present day
From September 2010 onwards I have been providing financial consultancy services for Paragon
Development & Theologos House of Jewelry on distress issues, financial restructuring and cost
methodology, deal structuring and negotiating with financial institutions and the public sector,
investment portfolio analysis, treasury performance and modeling, budgeting and cash flow.
29/09/2008 – 31/01/2009 Olympia Development SA, Athens
Group Treasury Manager
Olympia Development is the holding company that provides service to all of all Panos
Germanos’ companies in Greece and abroad. This includes companies such as
Publicworld SA, Multirama SA, Sunlight SA, Westnet SA and the group’s presence in
Cyprus and Eastern Europe. I was the manager responsible for controlling the group’s
treasury financial activities and monitoring its liquidity position in Greece and abroad.
Responsibilities included deal structuring and negotiating, investment portfolio analysis,
managing the companies’ daily liquidity and market investments, fund allocation, leverage
finance, liquidity risk monitoring, hedging, cash flow analysis, budgeting & capital
adequacy, loan administration and negotiation, debt monitoring, analysis of perspective
investments and reporting instruments to top management for all the above.
01/09/2006 – 19/09/2008 Sonae Sierra Group, Athens
Group Treasurer
Sonae Sierra is a Portugese based construction and property management company with
presence in 9 countries and specializing in constructing and managing shopping centers.
I was responsible for: controlling the group’s treasury activities and monitoring its
position, investment portfolio analysis, deal structuring and negotiating, controlling the
company’s daily transactions, fund allocation, leverage finance, liquidity risk monitoring,
hedging (swaps), cash flow analysis, budgeting & capital adequacy, loan administration,
liquidity updates and debt monitoring, analysis and reporting of perspective investments.
In addition I was responsible for managing and allocating funds abroad (BV companies).
20/08/2003 – 31/08/2006 Sygelidis Group, Athens

2. Treasurer, Controlling- Credit and Analysis
I was leading a team responsible for controlling the group’s (Citroen, Chrysler , Jeep,
Eurosport etc) banking activities and monitoring its financial position. Responsibilities
included investment portfolio analysis, controlling the company’s daily transactions,
credit monitoring, cash flow analysis, loan administration, reconciliation of customer
accounts, liquidity updates and debt monitoring, analysis of perspective investments and
budgeting. Moreover, I was a member of the controlling team responsible for reporting
the group’s financial position to the management team.
17/01/2001 – 03/08/2001 BNP Paribas, London
Equity and Fixed Income Client Team (Front Office)
I worked at BNP Paribas as a member of a team responsible for the administration and
management of UK and International (Paris, NY, Madrid, Milan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo
and Sydney) Equity and Fixed Income funds and portfolios. I was responsible for portfolio and
fund administration, corporate customer review and service, due diligence and money laundering
checks, and reconciliation with trade support and the marketers. Further responsibilities included
training new team members to the methods and practices of the group as such.
11/10/2000 – 27/04/2001 Alliance Capital Ltd, London
M&A Consultant
I was employed from Alliance Capital on a contract basis responsible for the merger of the
Alliance Capital Management Institutional business with that of newly acquired Sanford C
Bernstein. Reporting to Con Michalakis, I was responsible for merging the companies’ respective
funds, rationalizing the marketing literature of the two firms and reconfiguring it so that it
represented the new brand, AllianceBernstein Institutional Investment Management. This meant
the reformulation of funds and the redevelopment of all marketing brochures, presentations and
new website product literature. The emphasis was on the redevelopment of appropriate
marketing materials that would comply with IMRO regulations, promote the new brand whilst still
maintaining the core attributes of Alliance's growth oriented equity products and Bernstein's value
oriented equity products. I also helped the mutual fund division develop three new value based
mutual funds under the ACM Bernstein name registered funds in Luxembourg.
11/10/1999 – 06/10/2000 Deutsche Bank AG, London
Client Relationship Group (Front Office)
I worked at Deutsche Bank as a member of a group responsible for managing the funds and
communicating with the company’s top tier institutional clients. Responsibilities included regular
meetings with the clients as a means of monitoring fund performance, formulating proactive
measures, problem solving, portfolio formulating, reforming and implementing new methods and
technologies across the companies. Further responsibilities included introducing clients to new
services such as electronic trade confirmation systems, organizing group administrative issues and
updating the group’s website.

3. 01/06/1997 – 31/07/1997 Mobitel SA, Athens
Marketing Assistant – Marketing Department
(Summer Placement)
Responsibilities included all kinds of marketing activities with main emphasis on marketing
strategy formulation, distribution channel support systems and financial aspects of marketing,
project scheduling and training, customer services and dealer support systems.
01/06/1996–31/07/1996 Citroen Hellas SA, Athens
Financial assistant – Trainee –Financial Department
(Summer Placement)
Responsibilities included posting in General Ledger commission and posting warranty invoices,
fixed asset monitoring, reconciliation of customer accounts, cash flow analysis and budgeting
models, control of insurance claims, and dealer bonus systems.
EDUCATION
09/1998– 06/2000 University of Westminster
M.A., International Business Management (Grade: Merit)Part Time
Dissertation Theme: The Greek Market of Cellular Telephony.
09/1995 – 06/1998 Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
B.Sc. Economics with Business Studies (Grade: 2.2 hons)
09/1993 – 06/1995 Southgate and Barnet College
A-levels: Sociology(B), Modern Greek(B), Business Studies(C), French (D).
0-Levels: Mathematics (C), Business Studies (B), French (A*), English (D).
ACCREDITATIONS & SEMINARS
 Diplome de Langue et Civilisation Françaises
 Diplome de Langue Française
 Certificat de Langue Française
 Certificate of Proficiency In English and First Certificate in English
 Corporate & Operational Treasury training seminar in Portugal.
 ‘’The Greek banking system, analysis & methods’’ by PWC (5 days)
 ‘’Accounting for non-specialists’’ by PWC (90 hours – 4 months)
INTERESTS & EXPERTISE
 Proficient in Windows and Mac OSX, Office 7 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Lotus
Notes, Photoshop 5, Cool, Corel 5.
 Use of Reuters, Bloomberg and SAP R3. Internet and banking software.
 Fluent English and French, beginner’s Spanish.
 Modern Greek and French literature, music and travelling, Volleyball and tennis.
REFERENCES: PRODUCED UPON DEMAND