
London
Founding Partner
Anthony (Tony) Catachanas FEI, MCSI
Group Chief Executive Officer
Biography
Tony is a Founding Partner and the firm's Group Chief Executive Officer, based in the London office. He is responsible for the firm’s global governance, management and strategy as well as origination, transaction negotiation, structuring, and overall company development activities within the group executive team.
Before Tower Peak, Tony was a Founding Partner and CEO of Victory Hill Capital Partners LLP, where he was responsible for firm governance, management, strategy and portfolio management of the firm’s flagship £465m listed fund (ticker: GSEO/ENRG LN), focused on global sustainable energy investments.
Prior to this he was at Asset Management One (AMO), the asset management business of Mizuho Financial Group, where he was responsible for international business strategy and private asset investments globally as well as institutional investment solutions for EMEA. At Mizuho, Tony led the establishment of the global private asset investment arm of the firm. He also established Mizuho Bank’s Energy Special Situations Group (ESSG) and was involved in a number of private and public capital markets and M&A transactions with the investment banking division of the group.
Prior to this, he was a Partner at AlphaOne Partners LLP, an energy-focused private equity business where he helped build industrial partnerships with global industrial groups.
He also worked for Goldman Sachs Asset Management as an Executive Director, where he was responsible for financial institutions strategy and strategic relationships with institutional investors across Europe and the United States.
Before Goldman Sachs, he worked in both equity and fixed-income derivatives businesses at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and ABN Amro. He began his career as a Statistics Research Analyst at the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt.
Prior to banking, he spent some time working in the Directorate General of Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament in Brussels, where he worked on the Euromed Trade Agreement.
He holds a BA (Hons) in Management & Business Administration from the University of Reading, an MSc in Global Politics from the University of Southampton, and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.
He is a Member of the UK CFA Institute, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers (WCIB), and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments (CISI). Tony was elected Fellow of the Energy Institute (EI) for his services to Energy and to Finance in the Energy Transition. He was also awarded the Freedom of the City (of London) Award for his services to the City of London Corporation as a liveryman.
He is also a regular Financial Industry Guest Speaker to the MBA and MFin programmes at Cambridge Judge Business School.