Steven George Mandis (born in 1970) is an American investor and the founder of Kalamata Capital. He is an adjunct associate professor in finance and economics at Columbia University Business School. Previously, he worked at Goldman Sachs and

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and as a senior advisor to

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. He is the author of three books: ''What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and its Unintended Consequences'', ''The Real Madrid Way: How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet'', and ''What Happened to Serie A: The Rise, Fall and Signs of Revival''.

Early life and education

Mandis was born in

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as one of three children to his parents, Greek emigres George and Theoni. He spent his childhood in Chicago and Grand Rapids, Michigan where he attended Forest Hills Central High School. In 1992 he received an A.B. from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

. After a 16-year career on Wall Street he enrolled at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

, where he received an M.A. in Museum

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in 2010, and an M.Phil in Sociology in 2013, and a Ph.D. in

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Business career

Mandis began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1992 as a mergers-and-acquisitions banker. He later joined the proprietary trading department, where he helped build the Special Situations Proprietary Trading Group (SSG) and worked under Henry Paulson. In 2004 Mandis left Goldman to join Halcyon Structured Asset Management, an alternative asset management company. He remained at Halcyon until 2008, and later worked as a senior advisor to

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

. He then worked as an executive at

in various roles including chief of staff to its president. In 2013 Mandis founded Kalamata Capital, a small business finance company that he funded with his own money, naming it after the area of Greece his parents are from. Since leaving Wall Street in 2012, Mandis has taught at

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as an adjunct professor.

Books

In 2013 Mandis's book ''What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and its Unintended Consequences'' was published by Harvard Business Press, based upon his PhD dissertation at Columbia. It won the 2014 Gold Axiom Business Book Award for Corporate History. In 2016 Mandis's book ''The Real Madrid Way: How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet'' was published by

BenBella Books BenBella Books is an independent publishing house based in Dallas, Texas. BenBella was founded by Glenn Yeffeth in 2001. It specializes in nonfiction books on popular culture, business, health, and nutrition, along with books on science, politics, ...

. The book was the subject of a documentary by BBC Radio World Service, and won the 2017 International Book Award for Sports. In 2018 Mandis's book ''What Happened to Serie A: The Rise, Fall and Signs of Revival'', a history of the

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Copp ...

Italian professional football league, was published by Arena Sport.

Personal life

Mandis lives in

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. He was awarded an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2012.

References

External links

Steven Mandis profile
at Columbia Business School {{DEFAULTSORT:Mandis, Steven George 1970 births Living people American financial businesspeople University of Chicago alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Columbia University faculty American company founders Businesspeople from Chicago American business writers American bankers