KEITH MELLORS
Managing Director
Read MoreFounder and Managing Director of a private investment group for real estate and other strategic investments in Poland; Managing Partner at Copernicus Capital Partners; manager of a PE fund in Croatia and Serbia; Managing Director of SRP Programme (EBRD sponsored project to invest in State-owned enterprises); managed the creation of a new investment fund at a Polish State-owned Bank on behalf of the UK Know-How Fund;
UK Chartered Accountant; MA, Kings’ College, Cambridge.
JANUSZ SKRZYPKOWSKI
Investment Director
Read MorePreviously with Abris Capital Partners. Specialises in telecoms, manufacturing and clean energy; led many successful transactions including: Etos – fashion retailer and Mykogen Polska (mushroom compost producer); former CEO of Adriatic Kabel (Croatian cable TV business); investment director at Overseas Express (Croatia’s leading courier business); director at Armada Asset Management, Copernicus Captial Poland; Country Managing Director at Copernicus Capital Croatia;
For 8 years member of the Supervisory Board of Bank Zachodni WBK, held positions on many other supervisory boards, including USAID and the EBRD;
Graduate of engineering faculty at Lodz Technical University and MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA.
TAMAS SZALAI
Investment Director
Read MorePreviously with Bancroft Private Equity (Emerging Europe region including Turkey); Managing Partner of Virgin Green Fund Emerging Markets (PE fund supported by Sir Richard Branson); led investments in companies such as Standard Profil (automotive components), Starman (cable operator), EKO Faktoring (SME factoring), Farutex (food service) and Computer Press (print media, B2C e-commerce), Nowaco (food service), Bonton (media & entertainment group) and Dumagas (trucking and logistics);
Graduate of Budapest University of Economics and MSc in Finance and Economics from the University of Illinois.
WILLIAM FAWKNER-CORBETT
Investment Director
Read MoreIn Poland from the early 1990’s; worked on a private
equity project with the UK Know How Fund; Director in Poland Corporate Finance,
and earlier in Copernicus Finance Polska and Armada Corporate Finance; led
various privatisation initiatives in public transport, water and energy as part
of the EU Phare programme;
Graduate of King’s College
Cambridge, MBA from Henley Management College, qualified ICAEW Corporate
Finance Advisor.
JUDITH GLINIECKI
General Counsel
Read MorePreviously head of M&A practice for 7 years at Eversheds in Poland. Recent experience- advising a Swedish telecommunications company; advising Polish technology company on the sale of their company to a US investor; representing UK company in the acquisition of a major Polish printing company; assisting a multinational manufacturer with restructuring their Polish operations; advising an international media company on the restructuring of its CEE operations;
Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland and a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission;
Graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School.
DARIO V. CIPRIANI
Investment Director
Read MoreSpecialist investment professional focusing on clean energy opportunities;
Responsible for the Energheia PV solar fund (fully invested in 200 million euros of successful PV installations in Europe); project finance and transaction experience in large infrastructure projects throughout the CEE region; Management Board member of: Copernicus Capital, Parmalat Poland and Buditalia; Supervisory Board member of: Mapei – Gorka Cement S.A., Euroaccounting, Stalexport S.A.;
Graduated from University of California at Los Angeles.