Owner and Managing Director
Menelaos (Melinos) Pissourios, born in Cyprus in 1968, is the owner and Managing Director of AXENT Financial Advisers Ltd. He is also a partner at P&P Advisory Services Ltd in Cyprus. P&P is the Cyprus member firm of INPACT International, an alliance of independent accounting firms worldwide. More details of the network can be found on www.inpactcy.com .
Melinos has a BA degree from the University of Manchester in UK, in Econometrics & Finance where he graduated in 1990 with a First Class honours degree. He then qualified as a chartered accountant in the UK with KPMG. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and he also obtained the Corporate Finance qualification from ICAEW in 2007.
From 1995 to 1998, he worked for a private equity company and was involved in the promotion, structuring and financing of projects in the field of energy, real estate development, agriculture and logistics mainly in Central and Eastern Europe and former CIS countries.
From 1998 to 2005, he worked as a General Manager of a NYSE publicly listed company in the high-tech field where he was responsible for the finance and operations functions for the European and Russian activities.
In 2006, Melinos acquired the shares of AXENT Financial Advisers Ltd and joined P&P as a partner and developed his portfolio of clients comprising multinational groups and private international groups involved mainly in investment holding activities, mining, oil & gas, food supplements, ship-management, real estate development and logistics advising them in M&A transactions, project financing and international tax planning. Melinos is a registered auditor in Cyprus as well as a holder of a practicing certificate in the UK.