BEN EDWARDS

MANAGING PARTNER

Ben is the Managing Partner of Syntaxis. He has over 20 years of direct leveraged finance experience and is responsible for implementing the investment strategy of the Fund. In addition to his roles on the Origination Committee, he has primary responsibility for investor relations and fundraising. Additionally, in advising SMF I, he has assisted on the Ultimo, Labor Med, GTS Central Europe, Kisan, Izzi, Etos and Axtone investments.

Prior to Syntaxis, Ben was a Managing Director of Mezzanine Management Central Europe, the Investment Adviser to Accession Mezzanine Capital, the first dedicated mezzanine fund in Central Europe. In addition to his role as an Investment Committee member, he was responsible for implementation of the analytical platform he helped develop for Mezzanine Management in Western Europe and the United States. He also assisted on a number of Accession Mezzanine Capital financings in Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria.

In between his employment at Mezzanine Management, first in Western Europe and then in Central Europe, Ben was an Executive Director in the Leverage Finance Group at Goldman Sachs. Ben holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University.