Lisa Katsouraki has seen the full spectrum of the investing life cycle. From mentoring and investing in startups as an angel investor and as a VC, dabbling in start-up life as part of a founding team, scaling a company from 50 to 300 people as part of its management team to a successful exit. She has headed company strategy and M&A working alongside one of the largest PE funds. Lisa has completed 2 corporate acquisitions (from sourcing/deal origination, to DD, to replatforming) and entered an agreement to be acquired by Booking Holdings for 1.6b EUR. (Pending antitrust!)
Strong functional areas: strategy (strategic positioning and planning), corporate development, business development, M&A, investing, fundraising, go to market, marketing, process optimisation, dynamic pricing algorithms, product development, PMO (post merger/acquisition integration, replatforming), relationship / account management
- ex VC, has invested in marketplaces
- mentor in travel tech accelerator
- member of HeBan (Hellenic Business Angel Network)
- has worked with tech start-ups for 15+years
- well versed in travel tech, marketplaces, fintech, classifieds, price comparison, edutech
- Vice Chair, Greek Advisory Council for Tourism Culture and Creative Industries