Iulian Portasa, aged 33, is a former Senior Deal Advisory at KMPG.
In his new role, Iulian Portasa will coordinate the entire investment process, from in-depth analyses and preliminary negotiations, to leading due diligence processes and to closing transactions, simultaneously with advising companies in the Fund’s portfolio throughout their growth process, from his role of Member in the Executive Board of the management team of DigiRay and D-Toys, which represent recent investments of the Black Sea Fund.
Iulian Portasa has an experience of over ten years in M&A deals in various sectors of sectors of activity, such as technology, energy and natural gas, healthcare and manufacturing industry. His most recent role was Senior Manager in KPMG’s Deal Advisory team, where he was engrossed in several significant transactions and projects in the Romanian economy.
The investment fund created by Arin Ion, Matei Paun, Cornel Fumea and Adrian Vasile, at end-2018, has a total investment budget of EUR43 million, and the largest financers are the European Investment Fund (with the bulk of resources coming from the REGIO program co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund) and the European Investment Fund.