Takis Solomos is a seasoned Private Equity/ Venture Capital professional with more than 20 years of experience in Private Equity & Investment Banking.

Takis is a co-founder and a partner of Elikonos Capital Partners a Greek SME focus PE Group that has investments in the Food, Logistics, Consumer Goods and Technology sectors. Takis has initiated, structured and developed numerous investments in Greece, Romania and the USA and serves on the board of a number of companies that operate in the areas of meat processing, fish processing, fresh produce, ready-made meals, breakfast items production, olive oil and condiments production and other.

Takis is a co founder of Mega Yeeros Group, one of the largest Mediterranean recipe meat and plant based meat analogues producer with sales in the European and the North American markets and production facilities in Athens, Greece and New Jersey, USA.

Takis is a member of the Advisory Board of Rutgers University’s Food Innovation Center, the most important F&B US incubator. He has co operated with the Rutgers Food Innovation Centre for a number of years, introducing European food companies of his Private Equity portfolio, in the highly effective soft landing program of RFIC, that aims to assist international food producers in their entrance in the North American market, with significant success.

Takis has a BSc on Management and Organizational behavior from the American College of Greece (Deree College) and an MBA in International Business and Finance from the Sheffield Business School in the UK.