McDonough School of Business

Svetoslav Nikov (MBA’97)

Svetoslav Nikov is a Partner at Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. – an active deep-value focused investment manager that invests across the capital structure of public and private companies. Prior to joining Cyrus Capital, Mr. Nikov was a Director in the Leveraged Finance Group of Citigroup where he focused on debt financing transactions for leveraged companies controlled by financial sponsors as well as issuers in the chemicals, packaging and building materials industries. Prior to joining Citigroup in 2001, Mr. Nikov worked in the Leveraged Finance Group of JPMorgan and in the Emerging Markets Economic Research department of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Nikov holds an M.B.A. from Georgetown University and a B.A. with a dual major in Economics and Business Administration from the American University in Bulgaria.