Marco Severi

Biography

• Director at Capstan Capital since 2012
• 4 years investment structuring at Morgan Stanley
• Extensive international experience in business development for the telecoms industry
• Holds an MBA degree from Yale School of Management

Roman Wolkowski

Biography

• Partner at Capstan Capital since 2015
• Associate Partner, Head of Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions at SMC, a German M&A advisory boutique
• Director at Transfer Partners Group, one of the exclusive cooperation partners of Deutsche Bank for small- and mid-cap M&A transactions in Germany
• Holds university degrees Master of Laws (LL.M.) and Master of Mergers & Acquisitions from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Germany) as well as Diplom-Betriebswirt and Bachelor of Business Administration from Fontys International Business School (Netherlands)

Ahmed Saleh

Biography

• Partner at Capstan Capital since 2015
• Director, Invictus Advisory
• Vice President, Global M&A at Eurohypo
• Cazenove (Now JP Morgan Cazenove); founding member of their German office
• European M&A at UBS and Lazard
• B.Comm. in Business Administration (Cairo University) and alumnus of the London School of Economics

Georg Steimel

Biography

• Associate Partner with Capstan since 2015
• Partner positions at various Corporate Finance & Strategy Consulting Firms
• CFO at various exchange listed companies in Germany (TMT, Real Estate)
• Entrepreneur and Co-Founder in the technology sector
• Holds a diploma degree in Business Administration (University of Cologne)

David Mamatsashvili

Biography

• Associate Partner at Capstan Capital since 2015
• COO at Informap, a London based hi-tech company
• Counsellor (economic & commercial), various diplomatic and international organisation postings
• Holds a Master of Arts from University of Warwick

John Kornblum

• Chairman of Germany at Lazard LLP
• American Ambassador to Germany

Capstan Capital is pleased to announce that Ambassador John C. Kornblum is joining our firm as a Senior Advisor, effective immediately.

Capstan Capital is delighted that John is joining our firm as a Senior Advisor, where he will help us further expand our German presence with German Mittelstand family offices and institutional investors. Capstan Capital is a young firm and John brings a wealth of experience and deep access to Germany's entrepreneurial elite and decision makers.

During a distinguished career as a diplomat and businessman, John has been at the center of European and Atlantic developments for more than 35 years. He became Chairman of Germany at Lazard LLP in 2001 after completing his tour as American Ambassador to Germany. During his tenure as a diplomat, John Kornblum had played a defining role in many important events including President Ronald Reagan's historic appearance at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1987. John helped negotiate several of the agreements leading to the end of the Cold War, including the Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin and the Helsinki Final Act. As Assistant Secretary for European Affairs in the Department of State, he was also deputy negotiator of the Dayton Peace Agreement and later US special envoy to the Balkans. As Chairman, John helped build Lazard to become one of the leading corporate advisors in Germany and personally helped initiate several important transactions. He was especially active in advising Mittelstand customers in a strategic and financial advisory capacity. Since leaving Lazard in 2009, he has served as Senior Counsellor to Noerr LLP, one of Germany's leading law firms and has advised a number of German and American companies. He has also been a member of the Supervisory Boards of Bayer AG, Thyssen-Krupp Technologies, and Motorola Europe. Currently, John serves on a number of other advisory councils and boards such as the American Academy in Berlin, the German Institute for Community Organizing (DICO) and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

Professor Dr. Ralf Peter

• Medical Director, CEO at the Center for Vascular Surgery and Dermatology, Ulm-Blaustein, Germany
• Editor of the Journal of Vulnerology and Professor of Dermatology at the University of Ulm

Capstan Capital is pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Ralf Peter is joining our firm as a Senior Advisor, effective immediately.

Capstan Capital is delighted that Ralf is joining our firm as a Senior Advisor, where he will help us further expand our global biotech and life-sciences investment banking presence. Capstan Capital is focused on expanding its existing biotech and life-sciences practice and Ralf brings a wealth of experience and deep access to innovative and ground-breaking investment opportunities and related investment banking deal flow.

During a distinguished career as a Professor, Lecturer, Scientist and Practising Consultant, Ralf has established a reputation as an internationally renowned expert in the fields of Dermatology, Vascular Surgery and Venereology. Ralf is currently Medical Director, CEO, and Majority Shareholder of the Center for Vascular Surgery and Dermatology, Ulm-Blaustein, Germany and Editor of the Journal of Vulnerology and Professor of Dermatology at the University of Ulm.

Previously Ralf was Senior Scientist, Institute of Radiobiology, Armed Forces Medical Academy, Munich, Germany, Resident in Dermatology and Consultant in Dermatologic Radiotherapy and Oncology at the Dept. of Dermatology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Dermatology and Venereology of the University of Ulm, and Chief of the Dept. of Dermatology at the Armed Forces Hospital in Ulm, Germany and Vice-President of the German Society of Wound Healing.

Ralf graduated in Studies of Medicine at the Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany and undertook a Clinical Clerkship from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Harvard Medical School and has published more than 350 publications, among these more than 180 in Medline-listed Journals and has authored 2 books.