Reuters names new leaders for M&A coverage

Paritosh Bansal, finance editor at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Monday:

I am pleased to announce new leaders for our Americas M&A team: Greg Roumeliotis will become our next M&A EIC for the Americas, while Nadia Damouni will be our new Team Leader for the M&A team.

Greg will report to Dan Wilchins, our acting finance editor, while Nadia will report to Greg. Both appointments are effective from today.

Greg and Nadia will build on our market-leading M&A coverage and broaden the type of stories we generate from the corporate finance group, using our deep sources in a wide range of areas to tell the story of how corporate America funds itself.

Greg was previously our private equity reporter in New York, where he spent the last three years breaking news on the biggest leveraged buyouts and producing investigative stories that put a spotlight on one of Wall Street’s most secretive industries. He came to New York from Amsterdam, where he was Reuters’ European Infrastructure Correspondent. He joined the company in London as a finance reporter for Project Finance International, an IFR publication. A Greek national, Greg has also reported for Reuters from Athens during pivotal phases of the European sovereign debt crisis.

In his time off, Greg likes to play backgammon, a game that (he says) Greeks are known to become very competitive over. He is also a quiz show buff. Search for Greg and Greek TV quiz show on YouTube to see him in action.

Nadia, who joined us four years ago as our TMT M&A reporter, has blazed a new trail over the past couple of years as our Corporate Boards reporter. She has broken a range of high-impact stories about activism, deals, boardroom intrigue and succession at companies such as Microsoft, BlackBerry and HP.

Before joining Reuters, Nadia was the editor of dealReporter, a former subsidiary of the Financial Times Group. She started her career as a political journalist, writing for newspapers in Beirut and Amman, and prior to that, earned her M.A. in International Journalism at City University in London.

When Nadia was growing up in Dubai, she remembers her father, who was a stock broker at the time, calling to ask for commodity spot prices on his Reuters terminal. Little did she know she would be a Reuters correspondent decades later. She also has an identical twin sister, who covers healthcare for Bloomberg.

Please join me in congratulating Greg and Nadia on their new roles.