Andy Papadakos Joins Atlas as Partner, Chief Financial Officer

Atlas Holdings announced that Andy Papadakos has joined the firm and will serve as a Partner and Chief Financial Officer. After 14 years of exceptional service as a Member of Team Atlas, Cheri Reeve will transition to the role of Senior Advisor and remain an active member of the Atlas team through June 2025.

Most recently, Papadakos was Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Fund Finance at General Atlantic, a leading global growth investment firm with 16 offices around the world. In his role, he led the global finance operations of the firm’s investment entities and served as a senior member of the finance leadership team. He developed and led a high performing, global organization of professionals responsible for managing investment fund operations. This team included the middle office transaction function that coordinated and closed all private market investment and liquidity transactions globally, representing hundreds of transactions totaling over $100 billion during his tenure.

During his 25-year plus tenure at General Atlantic, Papadakos was instrumental in establishing the global fund operations that supported the firm’s growth in assets under management, which totaled approximately $83 billion as of June 30, 2024.

“We could not be more excited to welcome Andy Papadakos to Atlas. Operations is in so many ways the lifeblood of what we do, ensuring that we operate our organization with data-driven insight and serve our investors with best-in-class responsiveness, precision and fidelity. Andy is an exceptional financial leader with a strong track record in global private equity fund operations as well as developing and leading high performing teams. Moreover, he understands how an organization like Atlas can put in place processes, people and systems to manage rapid growth while avoiding missteps, as he did at General Atlantic. Andy’s strategic insights and leadership will be instrumental to our future success,” said Andrew Bursky, Managing Partner of Atlas Holdings.

“Atlas looks very different today than when Cheri joined us in 2010, and we are better in so many critical areas because of her work. She has been a driving force behind our sustained success and growth, playing an integral role in the launch of several Funds and fostering strong partnerships with our lending institutions. Put simply, Atlas today would not be where we are without her, and we’re glad she will be with us as a Senior Advisor during this transition,” said Tim Fazio, Managing Partner of Atlas Holdings.

“Andy’s experience and expertise will be invaluable as we continue to strengthen and grow the Atlas team. He brings a demonstrated ability to cultivate great talent while managing global operations and we’re happy to have him on Team Atlas,” said Jacob Hudson, Managing Partner of Atlas Holdings.

“It quickly became apparent to me that my core values and approach to building superior global finance and operations teams that underpin the broader success of the firm were completely aligned with Atlas. Atlas has a long history of transforming its diversified group of businesses into sustainable and growing Performance Organizations that deliver superior risk adjusted returns over time. I’m honored to be joining this talented, close-knit team and can’t wait to get to work,” said Papadakos.

“Over the last 14 years, I have been honored to be part of an incredible team of people, working and learning together as we grew Atlas into what we are today. Atlas is a unique and special place, and I am proud to have played a role in our success. Andy is a great choice as our next CFO, and I am looking forward to fully supporting him and the finance and ops teams over the next several months,” said Reeve.

About Atlas Holdings

Headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut and founded in 2002, Atlas and its affiliates own and operate 27 companies, which employ more than 50,000 associates across 300 facilities worldwide. Atlas operates in sectors such as automotive, building materials, capital equipment, construction services, food manufacturing and distribution, metals processing, packaging, paper, power generation, printing, pulp, supply chain management and wood products. Atlas’ companies together generate approximately $16 billion in revenues annually.

Source: Atlas Holdings, LLC