Rob Ioannou

Paris Frangoulis

Executive Director

Executive Director

Chartered MCSI, TEP, EFP, ACFWA, ACFBA

In February 2023 Rob was appointed as General Manager and Chief Investment Officer of Aristeus Financial Services Ltd, a regulated Cyprus Investment Firm and Single-Family Investment Office.  Over the course of more than 25 years Rob’s experience spans a breadth of financial and wealth disciplines including advising global families on investments and strategy across asset classes, wealth structuring, financial planning, fiduciary practices, family office and insurance solutions. This has included prior senior management roles in Europe and Asia as Head of International Private Banking at DBS Bank, Co-Head of HSBC Private Bank South-East Asia, JP Morgan Chase as well as founder of Aegis Global, an independent family wealth practice.

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh (Joint M.A. Hons), Rob is a Chartered Member of the Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) in the United Kingdom. He is also a member the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) in Cyprus, a certified EFPA European Financial Planner® and EFPA ESG Advisor®.  He holds Advanced Certificates in Family Wealth Advising (ACFWA) and Family Business Advising (ACFBA) from the Family Firm Institute (FFI) in Boston, USA. Additionally, Rob is the holder of a CySEC Advanced Certification.

Based in Nicosia, Rob considers himself a global citizen with roots in the UK, Greece, Australia as well as South-East Asia where you can find him actively involved in local community development.

Paris founded Black Swan RAC in 2016, a consultancy firm advising on risk, compliance and macro analysis. Formerly, he was the CRO at Alpheus Advisors SA, a major European family office.

He started his career with Maple Partners UK, a London based proprietary hedge fund manager where he worked as a quant in risk and trade. He left Maple in 2004 to set-up the RM unit at Egnatia Finance SA a major Greek brokerage/asset manager.

Paris holds a Durham University PhD researching the frequency of arbitrage opportunities in the FTSE100 options market. He holds a MSc in Business Finance and an Engineering degree from the University of London.

Paris worked extensively with regulatory authorities when applying for model approval or under supervision. He taught Financial Engineering and Econometrics at the University of Durham and his current business and research interests lie in risk management, asset allocation, time-dependent risk exposure and macroeconomic trading.

Harry G. David

Andreas Theophanous

Non-Executive Director

Non-Executive Director

Harry David earned his BS from Providence College and began his career as a certified investment advisor with Credit Suisse in New York.

He then served in several executive positions within Leventis Group Companies in Nigeria, Greece and Ireland.

Today he is Chairman of Frigoglass S.A.I.C. and is on the Boards of A.G. Leventis (Nigeria), the Nigerian Bottling Company Ltd, Frigoglass Industries (Nigeria) Ltd, TITAN Cement International S.A, and Pikwik (Nigeria) Ltd (a joint venture with Pick n Pay, South Africa). A member of the Board of directors of the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation Cyprus, he is also Chairman of the A. G. Leventis Foundation’s Olympic Preparation Scholarship Committee and Board member of the Cyprus Seeds for Technological Innovation.

Harry has served on the Boards of Alpha Finance, Greece’s Public Power Corporation (ΔΕΗ) and Emporiki Bank (Credit Agricole).

He has been honored with the rank of Taxiarches of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and with the Chieftaincy of Sulikin Keffi in Nigeria.

A collector of Contemporary African and African Diaspora art, he is a Member of the TATE Modern’s African Acquisitions Committee as well as a Member of the Global Council of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Andreas Theophanous is the Chief Executive Officer of MFO Asset Management Ltd, an AIFM and UCITS Management Company. He is a qualified chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.

Andreas was trained and worked for 12 years with KPMG in Nicosia, where he was Audit Principal and Assistant Head of Quality & Risk Management. He is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus, and of the Cyprus Investment Funds Association, where he also served as Chairman of the Ethics and Risk Management Committee.

Andreas studied Accounting at the University of Hull in the UK, and then pursued a Master’s degree in International Consultancy & Accounting at the University of Reading in the UK. He is also holder of CySEC Advanced Certification

Henry C. Leventis

Kyproulla Karantoni

Non-Executive Director

Non-Executive Director

Henry is currently a member of the Leventis/David Group, a family group with interests in bottling and other diversified investments, and serves on the board of the Nigerian Bottling Company.

He has a background as an equities analyst, and holds an MBA from London Business School.  Henry also has a MChem degree from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from Imperial College London.

Kyproulla is a Director at Fiducitrust Services Ltd, a licensed corporate service provider in Cyprus and has also been appointed as a Member of the Council of the Cyprus Stock Exchange. Kyproulla has over 14 years professional experience and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus. Previously she had joined KPMG in Nicosia, where she qualified as a chartered accountant. Following her studies, she worked with Andersen in London (People Strategy Consulting Department). Kyproulla studied Management and Systems Science at City University (CASS) of London.