Our Firm
Captum Advisors is a Global Management Consulting firm that translates and implements the latest academic knowledge into business insights.
We partner with top international business school representatives as well as a global network of alumni and professionals across various industries, to help our clients identify the most critical business issues and the greatest opportunities they can pursue. Our areas of expertise are in private equity and venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, strategy, digital transformation, performance improvement and value creation, restructuring and turnarounds and value investing.
Implementation and execution are supported on the front line by experienced management consultants, backed by leading-edge professionals and business academics.
Our comprehensive service offering is centered around our firm conviction to deliver tangible value to our clients and prepare their organization for the future. We partner with our clients and maintain a shared sense of ownership across the entire engagement cycle.
Consulting Team
Paul Muntean
Founder and Managing Partner
Areas of Expertise
Value Creation and Performance Improvement • Restructuring and Turnaround
About Paul
Before founding Captum Advisors, Paul worked for more than a decade with private equity, financial services and consulting firms including managing director of a family office owned Swiss corporation. He led restructuring and strategy assignments in concept or implementation phases for blue chip, DAX 30, FTSE 100, LSE and Saudi multinationals, and served interim management mandates across several industries.
Paul is a graduate of London Business School and Columbia University in New York.
Fredrik Edström
Consulting Partner
Areas of Expertise
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Value Investing • Corporate Finance • Corporate Governance
About Fredrik
Fredrik brings more than a decade’s expertise in active ownership investing across several industries from Europe’s largest activist fund, Cevian Capital. He has also held management board positions at international top-tier firms across Asia and Europe. Fredrik has worked closely with management and supervisory boards on performance improvement, value enhancement and corporate governance strategies.
Fredrik holds a MSc Engineering of Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and ETH, Zürich, and is a CFA charter holder.
Advisory Board
Professor Florin Vasvari, MA, PhD
Florin Vasvari is a Professor at London Business School and Academic Director of Private Equity @LBS. Florin teaches courses on Private Equity and Venture Capital as well as Distressed Investing to MBAs, Executive MBAs and senior executives.
On the professional side, Professor Vasvari has been advising on private equity related issues and currently sits on the advisory boards and/or Investment committees of private equity firms. On the academic side, Professor Vasvari is in the editorial board of two top academic journals in Europe and the US. He co-authored a book entitled "International Private Equity", published by John Wiley and Sons in 2011 which has been endorsed by key industry figures. He has also co-authored two forthcoming volumes of a new updated textbook entitled “Private Capital: Private Equity and Beyond”.
Professor Vasvari is actively pursuing research on private equity topics and debt markets and has published extensively in top tier business academic journals. He is regularly invited to present his work at major business schools. Professor Vasvari holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management and a Master in Economics from University of Toronto, Department of Economics. He received his bachelors degree in quantitative economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania. He is a Canadian and Romanian national.
Evie Boustantzi
Evie is an Operations Director of the Saudi based OXAGON and President of the LBS Gulf Association, which is hosting 2000+ alumni across the Middle East. She has extensive experience in general management and turnaround of multinational businesses in the construction, facilities management, manufacturing and professional services industry. She is passionate about driving shareholder value with focus on profitable growth, long-term sustainable impact and social and environmental responsibility.
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Earlier in her career she worked for Ernst & Young and Mace Group. Evie holds a BA(Hons) in architecture with the London Metropolitan University, a post graduate diploma with the University College London and a MBA from London Business School.
Our Capabilities
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Mergers and Acquisitions
Strategy
Value Creation and Performance Improvement
Restructuring and Turnaround
Digital Transformation
Value Investing
Guiding Principles
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We say what we mean and we do what we say.
Develop trust and conduct ourselves with integrity in everything we do
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We deliver value from C-suite to the front line.
Stand by our clients from concept design to last mile implementation
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We shape the future of work, introducing flexible work models to attract and retain the best talent.
Promote intrapreneurship, and constant innovation in how we work
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Never compromise on the highest standards
We consult others the way we would manage our own firm.
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Take ownership and deliver tangible and measurable results
Our commercial success is tied to the one of our clients.
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Merit loyalty, resilience and strong personalities
We encourage a closer alignment of incentives between the Firm and our consulting team.
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We calibrate thought research with a pragmatic bias for action.
Team up business academics and leading-edge professionals
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Our consulting partners and global community are our most valuable assets.
Hire, develop and empower exponential minds
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We value diversity and inclusion. We live social responsibility by supporting education, arts and sports.
Support each other
Social Responsibility
The social responsibility arm of Captum Advisors supports projects and organisations that help children, teenagers and young adults in the areas of education, art and culture, science, health and sports. We are promoting, advising and supporting on a voluntary basis thriving non-profit organizations around the world, in order to better integrate young talents in our society.​
Our Partners
The What Dance Can Do Project (WDCD) is non-profit organization created in 2018 in Switzerland by a small team of volunteers who believe dance changes lives and that all children should have access to music and to dance. Therefore, WDCD funds dance programs and events for children and young adults made vulnerable by illness or extreme poverty. The organization partners with some of the most in-demand dancers in the world and prestigious institutions like the Royal Opera House in London.
WDCD was founded by Aurélia Sellier, a French national who lives in Zurich. Before founding WDCD, Aurelia worked in various roles for large multinational companies, mostly in the field of leadership and organization development.
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Global Ecosystem
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates
Zurich,
Switzerland
Miami,
United States
