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Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is charged with the responsibility of steering the Company within regulatory boundaries.
BoD Composition and Responsibilities
The company’s board of directors was reconstituted pursuant to the capital restructuring transaction in April 2023. The board is composed of eight directors and is chaired by Mr Gagik Apkarian, founder & managing director of Tetrad Capital Partners. The Tetrad team has lead responsibility, working in collaboration with the company’s control shareholders, in transformation of the company.
The board has four key committees: Strategy & Transformation; Mergers & Acquisitions; Nomination & Remuneration; and Audit.
Mr. Apkarian is also a member of the board of Betaglass, a subsidiary of Frigoglass, and the largest producer of glass containers in Nigeria.
Gagik Apkarian - Chairman of the Board
Gagik Apkarian is the founder of Tetrad Capital Partners, a prominent London-based firm specializing in special situations and growth-focused principal investments, advisory, and execution, with a global footprint.
With over 20 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, and management consulting, spanning the U.S, Europe, Middle East, and Australasia, Mr. Apkarian brings a wealth of expertise to the board.
Previously, he served as the co-founder and General Partner at Vulcan Capital, the investment office of Paul G Allen (Microsoft co-founder), where he successfully managed a diverse $10Bn+ portfolio. In this capacity, he led the restructuring of legacy public and private equity direct investments and a range of investments in private equity, public securities, and infrastructure. His responsibilities covered companies with valuations ranging from $100 million to $20 billion, and he actively served on their boards of directors and was a member of Vulcan's Investment Committee.
Before his tenure at Vulcan Capital, Mr. Apkarian was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley. During his career in New York and London he executed over $100 billion in M&A, debt restructuring, and financing transactions across diverse sectors. His earlier career at McKinsey & Company in New York and Australia, focused on strategy, turnarounds and post-merger integrations.
Mr. Apkarian is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, holding an MBA. He also graduated with first class honours from UNSW | Sydney with a B.Sc. in mathematics, a B.Sc. in physics, and a B.E. in electrical engineering, ranking in the top 5% of his class.
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Management Team
Meet the dynamic leaders steering Frigoglass towards innovation and success.