Richard Waryn
Richard is a seasoned businessman, owner and entrepreneur, based in Denver, Colorado. He currently owns LDK Logistics, and is also a founding partner of a logistics start-up called DropSpot (www.dropspot.com) that seeks to fully customize the home delivery experience.
- – Seasoned business man, highly successful investment specialist
- – Raised > US$3 billion across six funds
- – 25+ years experience including 17 years in emerging markets private equity
- – Advisory Team Member, Ogma Titans Media
- – Advisor, Angie Communications / Oy Networks, the world’s largest telecom startup
- – Richard is Strategic Advisor at Titans World, as well as Founding Director of Titans World Investment Fund, along with Richard Borsboom.
- – Partner NSL & Co. since 2008
As a former private equity professional, Richard gained over 20 years of experience in buying, growing and exiting from a wide variety of early to mid-stage growth companies and large infrastructure companies around the world. He founded Centurion Capital in London in 2003, a mid-market buyout firm targeting deals in a variety of sectors including retail, financial services, distribution and real estate.
Richard was also a Managing Director of Dubai Capital Group’s private equity activities in the CIS Region where he helped to set up and run a private equity fund group affiliated with Dubai’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. Richard was also the co-founder of several successful emerging market funds including Troika Capital Partners’ $300 million (Moscow) Russia New Horizon Fund targeting private equity investments in Russia, and the €150 million European New Horizon Fund (London) targeting private equity investments in Central Europe and Russia.
Previously, Richard was one of the founding members of Emerging Markets Partnership (EMP) in Washington DC where he helped launch the $1.1 billion AIG Asian Infrastructure Fund in 1994, the world’s largest emerging market private equity fund at the time. At EMP, he also worked on the $1.8 billion AIG Asian Infrastructure Fund II and the €550 million Emerging Europe Fund. Earlier in his career, Richard was an Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector part of the World Bank Group. He also served as the senior international finance director at Martin Marietta Corporation and a senior management consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton.
Richard was an adjunct professor of International Finance at Johns Hopkins University and at the Georgetown University School of Management, both in Washington D.C. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Finance and Economics from Harvard University and a BS with honors from the University of Toronto. Richard was the Chairman of the Uplift Equity Investment Committee where he assisted Uplift in sourcing, managing, and funding socially responsible investment opportunities. He also served as a Member of the Supervisory Board at ESCADA AG and headed ESCADA’s audit committee.