An Alternative Investments Firm Focused on Special Situations
APPROACH
Focus on unique opportunities
Lampros Capital Partners is a special situations investment firm that makes opportunistic investments globally in both public and private markets via discrete investment funds. In order to unlock and realize value, we go where the market inefficiencies present themselves.
WHAT WE BRING
TO THE TABLE
50+ years of combined experience in private equity, investment management, credit and technology.
We combine our rigorous and patient investment thesis in finding the right situation with our data driven
and technology enabled framework to act when needed.
For our portfolio companies
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Experience in building, managing and funding businesses from seed to mature stages. You will be able to leverage our feedback, insights and networking.
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Our understanding of what it means to build your business and our view on how to best fund yourself along the way.
For our capital partners
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LCP brings the flexibility and experience that is required to patiently identify, research and source investment opportunities that meet our objectives.
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Our analytical background enables us to process
and understand data, underwrite credit and deploy capital efficiently.
TEAM
MATTHEW LUCKETT
Partner
Matthew Luckett is a seasoned alternative investor, with direct experience in hedge funds, venture capital, private equity and real estate. He has been an active board member of a number of private companies and non-profit organizations throughout his career.
Most recently, Matt was a General Partner of Balestra Capital, Ltd., a multi-billion dollar global macro investment firm. He joined the firm in 2004 as a Co-Portfolio Manager of Balestra Capital Partners (BCP), the firm’s global macro hedge fund and served on the investment committee of Balestra Spectrum Partners (BSP), the firm’s fund of funds. During his tenure, BCP was ranked as one of the best performing macro funds in the world by HFRI.
Prior to his hedge fund career, Matt was a Principal and a Wall Street Journal-rated equities research analyst at Soundview Technology Group and a technology industry analyst at Gartner Group, where he covered software, data analytics and applications development.
Matt graduated with honors from Georgetown University where he received the George F. Baker Scholarship and was a trustee of the scholarship as an alumnus. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Georgetown Scholars Program which supports first-generation students and previously served on the Georgetown College Board of Advisors.
PHILIP TRAHANAS
Partner
Philip Trahanas has over 20 years of experience in the financial world spanning operations, investment banking and private equity roles.
Most recently, Philip served for 15 years as a Managing Director of General Atlantic, a global growth equity platform with $18 billion under management. His core focus entailed direct investment in growth companies throughout the world and membership on the Investment Committee and Portfolio Committee. During his tenure at General Atlantic, Philip worked on a spectrum of industries and investment types, including business services, outsourcing, software, applied technology, real estate and communications.
Before General Atlantic, Philip worked within Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking division, including roles on the High Technology Corporate Finance team, the Merger and Acquisition group and as a member of the division's operating management team. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Philip was an electrical engineer at General Electric, where he specialized in communications equipment and semiconductor design.
Philip holds a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He attended the University of Pennsylvania for his advanced studies and received an MBA from the Wharton School, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar, and an M.S. in Engineering from the Moore School of Engineering.
Philip has held multiple board seats over time for public and private companies as well as philanthropic institutions globally.
MARTON ERDEI, CFA
Principal
Marton Erdei is an investments professional with background in structured credit, technology, financial analytics and data science.
Marton oversees Lampros Credit Opportunities' daily activities from building out capital partnerships with platforms, to running due diligence processes, to portfolio management, analytics and risk monitoring.
Before joining Lampros Capital, Marton was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley. Throughout his tenure, Marton worked on a variety of asset classes including consumer ABS, mortgage products, transportation and unsecured consumer and small business fintech opportunities. His main focus was structuring term securitization and asset-based lending transactions with additional roles in banking, data analytics and financial modeling.
After the financial crisis, Marton built and ran a team responsible for modeling and restructuring illiquid positions to help reopen the US and European ABS markets.
Marton holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and received an M.Sc. in Corporate Finance and Investments from the Corvinus University of Budapest and a B.Sc. From the University of New Orleans.
ANDRAS SOMI, CIIA
Head of Tech and Data Analytics
Andras Somi has over 10 years of experience in tech-focused investment products, data analytics and capital markets research.
Andras is responsible for in-house analytics and data science, including design and implementation of data pipelines, predictive models, performance monitoring and machine learning applications.
Before joining Lampros Capital, Andras worked as an independent consultant in the field of data analytics, leveraging his experience in working in high velocity data-driven digital environments. Previously, Andras served as a member of the management team at KBC Securities Hungary, the investment banking arm of KBC Group. Andras headed digital channels at the firm and oversaw data and analytics, platform development and digital marketing operations.
Andras holds the Certified International Investment Analyst designation and received M.Sc. in Service Management from the Corvinus University of Budapest.