The Ministry of Finance announces that, after the completion of the selection
process for the position of the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Board of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF), Mr. George Koutsos, current
Investment Manager at HFSF, will fill in the position.
Mr. Koutsos brings significant international experience in investment banking,
strategy consulting and private equity with particular focus in financial services.
He has been the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund’s (HFSF’s) Chief Investment Officer
since July 2011, actively involved in the reshaping of the Greek banking sector and its
recapitalization.
He joined HFSF from the National Bank of Greece (NBG) where he spent eight (8)
years within the Investment Banking and Private Equity/Venture Capital business
units, originally in London (NBG International) and since 2009 in Athens. Most
recently he was head of Mergers, Acquisitions and Equity Capital Markets, leading
numerous cross-border deals and high profile transactions for Greek financial
institutions and corporates. Prior to NBG, he was a strategy consultant at Boston
Consulting Group advising international clients in Brussels and in Athens.
He is a graduate in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of
Athens (NTUA), and he holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from
Imperial College in London.