Efstathios N Karanikolaidis is a financial professional living in Riverside, CT who has achieved a milestone in his career: becoming the Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Securities Leveraged Finance Group. In this capacity, he is responsible for the management of several industries including: industrials, aerospace & defense, transportation and business services. He is a seasoned professional who holds Series 7, Series 4 and Series 63 licenses.

Efstathios N Karanikolaidis has had diverse professional experiences before investment banking, including serving the Hellenic Air Force in the 114 Combat Wing, stationed in Tanagra, Greece. He was an Assistant Air Operations Officer, where he was responsible for operations and combat exercises planning as well as the analysis of air assets, pilot availability and combat readiness. Near the end of his service, he was awarded for Honorable Service from the Hellenic Air Force General Staff.

Efstathios N Karanikolaidis also worked for Arthur Andersen in Athens, Greece as an Analyst in their Financial Services Industry Group. While there, he helped perform due diligence in support of various m&a assignments, as the financial services sector was consolidating in Europe in the late 1990s.

With all of his successes in his professional career, Efstathios N Karanikolaidis gives much of the credit to the outstanding education he received at esteemed institutions. He first attended the Athens University of Economics & Business in Athens, Greece to get his BS in Management & Business Administration. He had a class rank in the top 5%. And then he went on to attend the William E. Simon Business School at the University of Rochester for his MBA, with concentrations in Finance and Corporate Accounting. While enrolled at Rochester, he was the Vice President of Financial Management Association; and was a member of Simon Investment Club and Simon Ambassadors. He graduated with a strong GPA of 3.73.

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