Constantinos in his Advisory Board Co-Chairman role advises on oversight and expansion of lending facilities/structures employed by the company and clients with mortgage banks, custodians and investment banking/brokerage platforms. Constantinos plays an important role in expanding relationships with the banking community to ensure the firm’s access to the best possible terms of financing available for real estate financing as well as securities mortgage financing.

Mr. Papanastasiou is an acting Executive Director and Deputy CEO of EFG Cyprus Limited (Nicosia, Cyprus), part of EFG International conglomerate, regulated by CySEC.
He is responsible for EFG International institutional and HNW business development effort on Cyprus, playing instrumental role in accommodating $1bln. +  in group client assets relocated to Cyprus following UK Brexit.

Prior to his appointment to EFG Cyprus in 2020, he used to run Cyprus business narrative at EFG Bank (Luxembourg) S.A. for four years bearing responsibility for the provision of AIFMD compliant depositary services to Cyprus AIFs and onboarding them within Luxembourg legal framework.

Constantinos continuously (1999-2016) built his career with Cyprus Investment & Securities Corporation Limited (CISCO), Bank of Cyprus. He started out back in 1999 as an investment-banking analyst performing valuations and prepping prospectuses/memorandums for placing equities and bonds on organized stock exchanges in Cyprus and other EU countries as well as for roadshows to Fund Managers.
He got consecutive promotions and worked his way up as an Investment Banking Executive (2001-2005), Head of Corporate Finance (2006-2010) and Head of Investment Banking (2010-2016).

Mr. Papanastasiou went to University College London for his BS in Economics & Statistics, which he finished with First Class Honours and got his Masters in Finance at University of Cambridge, Pembroke College in Cambridge, UK.

Constantinos is a CFA Charterholder and was a founding member for CFA Society of Cyprus (a member of CFA Institute), serving as its President (2006-2010) and Member of the Board of Directors. He is a founding member of Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA) and sits on the BOD of Cyprus Airways Public Ltd. (2013-2014) and Natural Gas Public Co (DEFA) (2014-2021).

Constantinos is an invited lecturer at Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM) and European University, School of Professional Studies as well as Ernst & Young Academy of Business.

While enjoying basketball, scuba diving and fishing, he finds time to read a lot and travel for leisure.