Founding Member
Valentin has a 20-year work experience in investment banking/corporate finance and private equity investment funds and another 7 years as engineer in a construction and installation company for the oil and gas sector. During his career, he provided M&A advisory services for mergers & acquisitions of companies, including privatizations, identified investment opportunities in Romanian companies for foreign private equity funds and, after the completion of the transactions, he represented the investors in the Board of Directors of the acquired companies, supporting the improvement of their performances.
Currently, Valentin is Member of the Supervisory Board of Complexul Energetic Oltenia, one of Romania’s largest energy companies and Senior Project Manager with NCH Capital, an US-headquartered private equity fund with more than 3bn USD under management.
Previously, he was Senior Project Manager and Investment Director, respectively, for two private equity funds dedicated to Romania – Axxess Capital and UK-based NBGI Private Equity, as well as M&A Director for one of Romania’s largest industrial groups – UTI.
Between 1998 and 2006 he worked as Investment Manager and, subsequently, as Corporate Finance Director for the investment banking company Capital S.A. (renamed Eurobank Finance S.A. after being acquired by the Greek group EFG Eurobank), when he represented the UK private equity fund Romanian Reconstruction Capital in the Board of Directors of investee companies and advised on several M&A transactions, respectively.
Valentin started his career in finance in 1996 with the UK-based investment bank Charterhouse Bank plc., and started his professional carreer as an engineer with CIPROM (Constructions and Installations for the Oil Industry – Romania).
He got his Electrical Engineering MSc. degree in 1988 from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and since 1996 he holds an MBA degree from the University of Quebec a Montreal / Canadian MBA Program in Romania. Valentin is certified as Investment Management Professional (since 2007) and Corporate Finance Representative (since 1997) by The Securities & Investment Institute of London – authorised by the Financial Services Authority of the UK.