Phokion Potamianos-Homem

Phokion Potamianos Homem is General Partner of Sylvina Capital, a closed-end hedge fund investing in global macro themes. He brings to board service three decades of experience in equity research, investment banking and private equity, combined with sustained governance work at museums, libraries and educational foundations in Europe and the United States.

He began his career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette as a research analyst covering the integrated oil companies, where his work was recognised by Institutional Investor and the Wall Street Journal. He subsequently served as Head of Semiconductor Investment Banking for the Americas at UBS, and later as a partner at Francisco Partners, the technology-focused private equity firm. He holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.

In the cultural sphere, he is President of the Sonnabend Collection Foundation, where he leads the Foundation’s stewardship of the collection and its program of exhibitions, loans and artist support. He is a member of the Board of the Museum of Cycladic Art and serves on the Visiting Committees of the Morgan Library and of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is an Overseer of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, where he supports the Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series, and a member of the board of the Anargyrios and Korgialenios School of Spetses.

He works in English, Italian, Greek and French, and divides his professional life between Athens, New York and Italy.