Yannis Matsis

Yannis Matsis co-founded Point Nine with Pavlos Christoforou in 2002 and joined Point Nine as Chief Executive Officer in April 2008.

Yannis made his career in banking where he has 15 years of experience in building and managing global debt capital market teams. Prior to Point Nine Yannis was Managing Director, Head of Structured Trading at Mizuho International, where he built from scratch and managed a global team responsible for structuring and trading credit, interest rate and foreign exchange derivative products with annual volume turnovers in excess of USD 20 billion. Yannis joined Mizuho in 2003 from ING Barings where he was Managing Director, Global Head of the Credit Derivatives business, with offices and operations in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Sao Paulo.

At both Mizuho and ING, Yannis was directly involved in building the whole front-to-back infrastructure required to support structuring and trading of his groups' products. This involved continuous interaction and co-operation with market risk management, credit risk management, product and financial control, information technology, legal, operations (including settlements), etc.

Yannis graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering.

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