Vasilis is a co-Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Solon Merchant Capital Partners, a Luxembourg-based alternative investment fund investing in Special Situations and asset-backed credit.

Previously, Vasilis has served inter alia as Chief Investment Officer of HCAP (Υπερταμείο) Greece’s SWF, as CEO of Mount Street Hellas SAMRLC a credit servicer with €500m AuM and Senior Director for Private Markets at Mount Street Portfolio Advisers GmbH, a Partner at KKR’s Pillarstone Europe restructuring & turnaround fund, as CFO of Iason Hellenic Shipping and a UHNW family office. His 25+ years investment banking and corporate finance career also included working at JPMorgan’s Financial Sponsors Group and at Deloitte Corporate Finance in Greece with a focus on financial services & cross-border M&A.

He has served on several public and private boards, including the UK Hellenic Bankers Association. He trained as an Economist at the University of Piraeus and holds an MBA with Distinction from the London Business School with a focus on finance, strategy & private equity where he studied as an LBS Private Equity Scholar. His post-graduate studies also include Real Estate, Alternative Investments & Value Investing at Columbia Business School and also Corporate Governance & Leadership at IMD Lausanne.