Andy Papadakos Joins راضقة«°ة as Partner, Chief Financial Officer
Greenwich, CT – راضقة«°ة Holdings announced today that Andy Papadakos has joined the firm and will serve as a Partner and Chief Financial Officer. After 14 years of exceptional service as a Member of Team راضقة«°ة, Cheri Reeve will transition to the role of Senior Advisor and remain an active member of the راضقة«°ة team through June 2025.
Most recently, Papadakos was Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Fund Finance at General Atlantic, a leading global growth investment firm with 16 offices around the world. In his role, he led the global finance operations of the firm’s investment entities and served as a senior member of the finance leadership team. He developed and led a high performing, global organization of professionals responsible for managing investment fund operations. This team included the middle office transaction function that coordinated and closed all private market investment and liquidity transactions globally, representing hundreds of transactions totaling over $100 billion during his tenure.
During his 25-year plus tenure at General Atlantic, Papadakos was instrumental in establishing the global fund operations that supported the firm’s growth in assets under management, which totaled approximately $83 billion as of June 30, 2024.
“We could not be more excited to welcome Andy Papadakos to راضقة«°ة. Operations is in so many ways the lifeblood of what we do, ensuring that we operate our organization with data-driven insight and serve our investors with best-in-class responsiveness, precision and fidelity. Andy is an exceptional financial leader with a strong track record in global private equity fund operations as well as developing and leading high performing teams. Moreover, he understands how an organization like راضقة«°ة can put in place processes, people and systems to manage rapid growth while avoiding missteps, as he did at General Atlantic. Andy’s strategic insights and leadership will be instrumental to our future success,†said Andrew Bursky, Managing Partner of راضقة«°ة Holdings.
“راضقة«°ة looks very different today than when Cheri joined us in 2010, and we are better in so many critical areas because of her work. She has been a driving force behind our sustained success and growth, playing an integral role in the launch of several Funds and fostering strong partnerships with our lending institutions. Put simply, راضقة«°ة today would not be where we are without her, and we’re glad she will be with us as a Senior Advisor during this transition,†said Tim Fazio, Managing Partner of راضقة«°ة Holdings.
“Andy’s experience and expertise will be invaluable as we continue to strengthen and grow the راضقة«°ة team. He brings a demonstrated ability to cultivate great talent while managing global operations and we’re happy to have him on Team راضقة«°ة,†said Jacob Hudson, Managing Partner of راضقة«°ة Holdings.
“It quickly became apparent to me that my core values and approach to building superior global finance and operations teams that underpin the broader success of the firm were completely aligned with راضقة«°ة. راضقة«°ة has a long history of transforming its diversified group of businesses into sustainable and growing Performance Organizations that deliver superior risk adjusted returns over time. I’m honored to be joining this talented, close-knit team and can’t wait to get to work,†said Papadakos.
“Over the last 14 years, I have been honored to be part of an incredible team of people, working and learning together as we grew راضقة«°ة into what we are today. راضقة«°ة is a unique and special place, and I am proud to have played a role in our success. Andy is a great choice as our next CFO, and I am looking forward to fully supporting him and the finance and ops teams over the next several months,†said Reeve.