Soula Parassidis has appeared at leading opera and concert venues worldwide, including Berlin Philharmonie, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Prague Rudolfinum, Oper Leipzig, Festival Aix-en-Provence, Theater an der Wien, Opéra Nationale de Bordeaux, Guangzhou Opera, Taipei Symphony, and many others.

A passionate advocate for the operatic art form and the singers who inhabit the stage, in 2019 Soula founded the online platform Living Opera. Living Opera is a community initiative spanning 4 continents that strives to inform, equip, and empower singers about the realities of the business of opera. Living Opera has worked with various organizations including Medici TV (Paris), Reload Greece (London), Florida State University, Houston Grand Opera Studio, and Northland, Orlando.

Soula Parassidis

Borderless Labs - buildborderless.com

Building blockchain infrastructure to bring banking and payments onchain. #buildborderless

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Fortress IO

Interim - Chief Executive Officer

Interim Chief Executive Officer (Fortress Trust)

Chairman of the Board (Fortress Trust)

FinTech & Regulated Institutions

Served as General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Board Secretary to various regulated financial institutions, blockchain infrastructure ventures and fintechs.  Offered expertise on regulatory compliance, board governance, and commercial agreement negotiations.

General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP is regularly recognized by Chambers USA as a highly regarded law firm in the area of corporate/mergers and acquisitions.   In 2015 and 2014 EGS was ranked #1 in PIPEs/Registered Directs (agent's counsel).  EGS has been one of the most active IPO law firms in the U.S. for the last 5 years. Over the course of the last 10 years, the Firm's lawyers have  participated in excess of:  225 registered offerings, including, 100 SPAC registrations, 40 SPACquisitions, 750 Registered Directs/PIPEs and 40 Reverse Mergers!                                                            

The Firm distinguishes itself from many other transactional law firms on the basis of its ability to be part of the establishment of new alternative securities programs, such as crowdfunding, SPACS, PIPES, Reverse Merges and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs/Token Offerings), where the Firm's professionals have played leadership roles within each of those industries.

Of Counsel

Georgiades & Associates (www.Georgiades.co)

Georgiades & Associates brings a fresh approach to advising early stage companies, emerging growth companies, publicly listed companies, broker-dealers, funding portals and investment advisors on capital formtation and corporate transactions. 

Since 2011, I have been meaningfully involved with issuers, crowdfunding (fin-tech) portals, service providers, industry associations and regulators to interpret, implement and fashion strategies relating to the new capital formation reforms (Reg D/506c, Regulation A+ and Crowdfunding) enacted under the JOBS Act. I have represented several of the leading venture-backed funding platforms from inception and continue to represent crowdfunding platforms both nationally and internationally.

Georgiades & Associates, Founder

Recent Speaking Engagements 

Blockchain & Capital Market Summit, “What’s Next for Blockchain Coins & ICO’s”, Speaker, Miami. February 2018

New York Stock Exchange, Blockchain Technology Roundtable, Speaker, New York City. February 2018

Digital Asset Investment Forum, Panel “Alternative Assets in a Blockchain Era”, Speaker, New York.  January 2018

Crittenden Real Estate Conference, “New Reforms & Opportunities in Technology Driven Finance” Moderator/Speaker, Miami, Florida. October 2017

New York Stock Exchange, Blockchain Technology Roundtable, Speaker, New York City. February 2018

Digital Asset Investment Forum, Panel “Alternative Assets in a Blockchain Era”, Speaker, New York.  January 2018

Queens College Incubator, “Founders Forum: Business entity Formation and Choosing Your Board of Directors”, Speaker, New York. September 2017

NCFA Annual Conference, “International:  Raising Significant Capital?  Cross-Border Markets and Multi-Prong Strategies”. Toronto, Canada. January 2017

CrowdFundBeat New York Conference, “Crowdfunding Investing and Risk Mitigation” New York City, New York. February 2017

ABX Conference, “Real Estate Finance and Raising Capital Online” Boston, Massachusetts, November 2016

Strafford Publishing Webinar (CLE), “Funding Platforms for Rule 506 Offerings: Navigating Broker-Dealer Registration Exemption for Investment Advisers and Issuers” October 2016

DealFlow Crowdfunding Conference, “Legal & Regulatory Considerations in Operating a Crowdfunding Portal or Private Placement Platform for Accredited Investors” New York City, September 2016.

Crittenden Real Estate Conference, “Real Estate Finance & Crowdfunding” Miami, Florida. September 2016

Corporate Counsel Congress “Managing the In-House Career – Required Skill Sets of a General Counsel” New York City, New York. June 2016

FundIt Crowdfunding Compliance National Conference, “Reg A: Tips for Getting Your Forms 1-A Qualified & Broker-Dealer Rule 5110 Filings Completed”.  Las Vegas, Nevada. April 2016

Speaking Engagements

Garrison Investment Group

Garrison Investment Group is a leading middle market credit and asset based investor. The Firm provides services to funds, co-investment vehicles, and separately managed accounts. Our investment strategies focus on deploying capital in opportunities across Corporate Finance (corporate loans and select equity investments), Financial Assets (commercial & industrial loans and consumer loans), Private Equity and Real Estate.   Garrison Capital Inc. (NASDAQ: GARS), our affiliate, is a business development company that invests primarily in the debt and equity of middle-market companies.

Regulatory & Compliance Counsel

EGS was ranked the fourth most active law firm in the US for issuer side IPOs and the number 1 most active firm in the US for our SPAC practice. I advise on venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, REIT formation, listing on various exchanges, OTCQX DAD/PAL sponsor adviser, 15a-6 chaperon arrangements and broker-dealer or hedge fund  regulatory compliance. Our clients range from new ventures just starting out to large public companies.

EGS is a leading law firm in the US working with industry members and regulators to fashion the new CrowdFunding regulations. We work with entrepreneurs to setup new funding portals or fully registered broker-dealers. EGS is privileged to be the only law firm selected by members of the CrowdFunding industry to participate in all formative meetings with the SEC and FINRA.  Represented funding platforms, service providers, broker-dealers and investment advisers on the new crowdfunding capital formation reforms.

Corporate & Securities Associate

Fordham University School of Law

Assisted to teach the course "Securities Regulations Refashioned." The course provided students with a comprehensive understanding of our system of securities regulation and a practical understanding of the capital markets. Students were taught both the substantive and procedural law pertaining to securities arbitration and litigation.

Adjunct Professor

George S. Georgiades is an experience General Counsel and regulatory counsel in the emerging fields of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. He has served in several executive leadership roles as well as represented clients both in the US and internationally on private and public capital formation transactions, complex cross-border transactions, regulatory compliance, and formation of financial institutions. 

As the a former Interim-CEO and General Counsel, he led the development and launch of a suite of financial and blockchain technology solutions. Previously, he co-founded and served as the General Counsel of blockchain and fintech infrastructure institutions achieving over ~$70M ARR and served as first GC of another regulated institution that achieved ~$100M ARR. He is passionate about building high growth financial technologies companies that create greater access to financial services.

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