Limassol Municipality, Limassol, Cyprus
Stephen is an experienced international banker and entrepreneur offering more than 40 years of financial and commercial experience. His activities have included privatisation and financial advisory, private wealth and fund management, corporate restructuring, structuring of senior, junior and equity-linked capital market transactions, hedging and derivatives, tax structuring, project finance, M&A, leveraged and management buyouts and workouts. Before founding and establishing the BPA International brand, Stephen was a Managing Director at Bank of America NA, responsible for investment banking activities in the developing and emerging market countries of the EMEA region and was a member of the bank’s EMEA Management Board. Prior to joining Bank of America, Stephen held positions at The Fuji Bank Limited, London Branch (Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited 1986-1991) and Midland Bank Plc, London (HSBC plc 1979-1986). He is presently engaged with several start up businesses ranging from new technology to real estate.
BPA International is a Cyprus based family office and boutique financial advisory group which provides investment services with a principal focus on the developing market and frontier regions. BPA International maintains investment stakes in entities and projects across a broad variety of sectors including new technologies and real estate.
Initiated, developed and built a team active in executing M&A, advisory and mid sized capital issues in the Central & Eastern European, Middle East & African region.