About Lion Capital / Leadership / Rachid El Lakis
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors. Elected member of the Board by the ordinary general meeting of Lion Capital’s shareholders of October 31, 2024, for a four-year term, from April 26, 2025, to April 26, 2029.
Profession: Economist
Nationality: Romanian
Year of Birth: 1996
Lion Capital S.A. – April 2025 – present
Vice-Chairman of the Board
Lion Capital S.A. – 2019 – 2025
Operations Director – June 2024 – April 2025
Investment Analyst – October 2019 – June 2024
SIF1 IMGB S.A. – February 2021 – present
CEO’s Advisor
Vrancart S.A. – July 2020 – present
Member of the Board
Biofarm S.A.
Deputy General Manager – April 2025 – present
Member of the Board – December 2019 – present
SAI Muntenia Invest S.A. – September 2017 – September 2018
financial analyst
KPMG – June 2016 – August 2016
Internship in Corporate Tax
Lancaster University, UK – 2018 – 2019
MSc Finance
University of East Anglia, UK – 2014 – 2017
BSc Economics and Accounting
University of California (USA) – 2024
Essentials of Management and Strategic Planning
Wharton University (Pennsylvania, USA) – 2024
Operations Analytics
IESE Business School (Barcelona, Spain) – 2024
Organizational Behavior
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) – 2024
Principles of Management
AS Financial Markets (Romania) – 2024
Management of Operational Risks
AS Financial Markets (Romania) – 2024
Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering
AS Financial Markets (Romania) – 2023
Professional training and development program for management positions
Harvard University (UK) – 2022
Leadership Principles
AS Financial Markets (Romania) – 2020
Continuous professional training program
English – proficient
Spanish – intermediate
Arabic – intermediate