Miltos Kambourides

Miltos Kambourides (born November 29, 1972) is a Cyprus-born entrepreneur, founder of
investment group Dolphin Capital. The main investment vehicle is
Dolphin Capital Investors (DCI), a €2 billion global leader in the
luxury residential resort sector in emerging markets and one of the
largest private seafront landowners in the eastern Mediterranean.
Early career
Kambourides started his career in 1997 at Goldman Sachs, working in real
estate private equity team. In 1998, he received a Goldman Sachs
Global Innovation award for his contribution in winning PFI deal PRIME and setting up Trillium, the largest real estate outsourcing company in the UK.
Kambourides left in 1999 to become founding partner of Soros Real Estate
Partners, a global real estate private equity business formed that
year by George Soros. During Kambourides' tenure, his team raised a US$1
billion fund and executed a number of complex real estate transactions
in Western Europe and Japan. Kambourides was the deal leader and a founder
of Mapeley Ltd, which became the second largest real estate
outsourcing company in the UK after winning two major 20-year
multi-billion-GBP contracts: one with the Inland Revenue and Custom &
Excise Departments of the UK and one with the Abbey National bank.
Dolphin Capital
In 2004, he left Soros and founded the private equity firm Dolphin
Capital Partners (DCP). DCP has raised close to €1 billion of equity
funds and its main investment vehicle, Dolphin Capital Investors
(DCI), is currently listed on AIM of the London Stock Exchange. DCI
has an asset base of close to €2 billion and is the leading investor
in the luxury residential resort sector and one of the largest private
seafront landowners in the eastern Mediterranean. DCI owns Aristo Developers, the largest developer and land owner in Cyprus. DCI has partnered up with many luxury operators such as Aman Resorts, who will manage the Aman at Porto Heli, the first Aman Hotel and Villas resort in Europe.
Kambourides ranked #6 in the "Top 100 Hot Names below 35 in the Property Industry" by Property Week magazine and was also nominated by the
same magazine in 2008 as "Property Newcomer of the Year".
Education
Kambourides graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and once in the Balkan Math Olympiad (Sofia 1990) where he received a bronze medal. Since 2008 he sponsors the Kambourides Graduate Fellowship in the newly formed Center for Computational Engineering at MIT.
Other
Kambourides is married to Marina Vernicos and is a father of 3. He has one sister, Kallia Kambourides, also an entrepreneur, graduate of JFK Harvard School of Government. Kambourides graduated in 1992 from the Artillery Academy of Greece, and served in the Cyprus National Guard for 26 months. He is a member of the World Travel and Tourism Council.

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