Christophoros Papachristophorou

Christophoros is the Founder and Managing Partner of Invel Real Estate, a private equity real estate firm, and in this capacity, he oversees all strategic decisions. Since founding Invel in 2013, Christophoros has been responsible for the origination and execution of its investment program, counting c. 20 transactions including recapitalisations, Corporate and portfolio transactions, NPLs and high yield debt investments.
Invel’s largest investment to date was the acquisition of sixty-six per cent (66%) of Prodea Investments (previously NBG Pangaea) from the NBG in 2013, followed by the acquisition of NBG’s remaining participation of thirty-two point four per cent (32.4%) in 2019. He has since, chaired the BoD and IC of the company, and has been instrumental in creating a new vision and strategy, whilst implementing a very successful acquisition and financing program that led to a significant growth of the portfolio, tenant diversification and profitability of Prodea.
 
Prior to Invel, Christophoros was a Managing Director and Global Head of Deutsche Bank RREEF Opportunistic Investments (ROI), the private equity real estate arm of Deutsche Bank that specialises in high yield real estate investment strategies. Previously, he was the Co-CEO for RREEF Alternatives in Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa and was instrumental in consolidating RREEF's broader alternatives platform in the EMEA region. While at RREEF, Christophoros completed and/or restructured over sixty (60) investments totalling in excess of twenty billion Euros (EUR 20 billion) of gross asset value. Amongst others, he led the corporate restructuring, refinancing and repositioning of the French department store Le Printemps, the acquisition, repositioning and subsequent sale of La Rinascente, Italy's leading department store as well as the acquisition, subsequent restructuring and sale of Newreal S.p.A, then the commercial real estate subsidiary of Enel, Italy's largest power company.
 
Christophoros received a BSc in Economics from London School of Economics, a master's degree from the Business School of Bocconi, Italy, and is fluent in English, Italian and Greek and proficient in French.