Leonid Shapiro

Leonid is a Partner at Brookstreet as well as the Managing Partner and founder of Candesic, a leading European advisory for PE/VC with over 300 deals and engagements track record for all the major PEVC funds see the Partners Page for Candesic credentials . Brookstreet does investments and Candesic is the internal consulting and strategy house. The synergies of the two are quite unique. Leonid works for over a decade now with PEVC firms advising their Investment Teams. Clients are mainly institutional global funds (like Blackstone, KKR, CVC, Bain, BC Partners). His personal experience involves over 100 engagements. A number of PEVC engagements were done together with Omiros. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company, specializing in private equity strategy. Leonid’s entrepreneurial ventures include being the COO of a $126m software company and the CEO of a telecommunications firm. He holds an MD from Duke University, a PhD from Oxford University and a BA from Cornell University. He trained in Corporate Finance at the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI).