About Stavros Angelidis

Stavros Angelidis brings two decades of operational leadership to executives and investors navigating decisions without clear precedents. His experience spans rapid-growth technology firms, large-scale infrastructure projects, complex stakeholder environments, and digital transformation across multiple sectors.
This breadth provides a distinctive perspective: he has seen how organisations function beyond the org chart, how strategic decisions cascade through systems, and how the interplay between people, processes, and structure determines whether initiatives succeed or fail. His value stems from the pattern recognition developed through direct involvement in projects that scaled successfully as well as those that didn't.
Operational BackgroundStavros served as Chief Operating Officer for five years and later Partner at a Switzerland-based fintech firm, leading the development of digital investment products, managing operational scaling, and handling investor relations during significant growth and market expansion.
He subsequently worked with a European firm contracted on NEOM, one of Saudi Arabia's transformational development projects. His role focused on investment relations, establishing project management foundations, and securing ISO certifications, which are critical for operational eligibility. The engagement involved navigating complex stakeholder coordination, regulatory frameworks, and government oversight on multi-hundred-million-dollar projects with tight deadlines and exacting standards.
Earlier in his career, Stavros led digital transformation initiatives across multiple sectors, combining deep technical expertise in technology architecture and systems with business acumen and operational leadership.
He currently leads the scalability strategy for a US-based real estate investment and acquisition firm, providing ongoing counsel on operational strategy and growth management.
Expertise & MethodologyStavros has an educational background in Business Studies and holds a Master's in International Policy and Diplomacy, with a specialisation in global political economy. This academic foundation offers insights into how market forces, international economic environments, and geopolitical factors shape operational decisions, particularly relevant for investors evaluating opportunities in complex or cross-border contexts.
His experience extends to advisory roles in international cooperation frameworks, including professional engagement with government ministrieson regional strategic initiatives and as part of a specialised advisory team providing support to senior leadership (President of Cyprus) oncomplex multi-stakeholder negotiations. These engagements required navigating diplomatic complexity alongside operational execution, reinforcing his ability to manage decisions where technical, political, and strategic considerations intersect.
His operational expertise is grounded in systematic methodologies, including Lean management, Six Sigma, and business process improvement. These enable rapid diagnosis of complex operational challenges and identification of root causes in organisational dysfunction.
Beyond technical operational knowledge, Stavros brings insight into organisational dynamics that transcend formal structures: how change management and timing affect outcomes, how strategic decisions cascade through systems, and why initiatives succeed or fail. This understanding comes not from theory but from direct experience across a range of sectors and international projects, where he has navigated what works, what doesn't, and why.

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