Telly Zachariades
Telly Zachariades, based in New York, is a managing director and vice chairman of the chemicals group at °µÍø³Ô¹Ï.
He has more than 40 years of investment banking experience – all in the chemicals industry and almost all in M&A advisory.
Zachariades was one of the co-founders of The Valence Group in December 2007, a boutique M&A-focused investment bank, which in the last 17 years, has completed 115 transactions aggregating $95.0 billion in enterprise value and $400.0 million in advisory fees. During this time, he has personally led more than 60 of these transactions worth more than $60.0 billion. The Valence Group was acquired in April 2020, and became the chemicals investment banking group of °µÍø³Ô¹Ï.
Prior to Valence, Zachariades spent seven years as global head of Bear Stearns' chemicals investment banking practice and before that, 17 years at JP Morgan Chase as a senior investment banker in both London and New York covering the chemicals industry. He began his career as a marine engineer at Conoco from 1981-1983, during which Conoco was acquired by DuPont.
Zachariades earned a bachelor's degree in naval architecture in 1979 and a master's degree in engineering in 1980 from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.