BOARD OF DIRECTORS & PARTNERS

Judgment. Accountability. Long‑term thinking.

Leadership at Ordovian is defined by the decisions we make — and the responsibility we take for them.

Not symbolic.
Earned through experience.

At Ordovian, leadership is earned through experience, responsibility, and the ability to make clear decisions under uncertainty.

Our leadership brings together senior practitioners across investment analysis, structuring, technology, capital formation, operations, and risk, united by a shared standard: intellectual honesty, execution discipline, and respect for capital.

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE DECISIONS

Our partners.

Christopher Voolaid

Christopher Voolaid

General Partner & Chairman of the Investment Committee

London | Tallinn

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EXPERIENCE & PERSPECTIVE

Christopher Voolaid is the founding General Partner of Ordovian and chairs its Investment Committee. He works with family offices, private equity and institutional investors on complex, cross-border transactions across infrastructure, energy, sports and real assets, from origination and structuring to capital formation.

He has supported more than €50M in capital formation and worked directly with LPs and investment committees at institutions representing over €10B in AUM. His earlier career spans INVL Family Office & Asset Management, LHV Asset Management, Compensa Vienna Insurance Group and Startup Wise Guys.

Expertise

  • Transaction origination and execution
  • Risk mitigation and transaction intelligence
  • Capital structuring and formation
  • Cross-border governance
Attila Tóth

Attila Tóth

Partner, Chief Strategist & Investment Committee

London | Vienna | Transylvania

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EXPERIENCE & PERSPECTIVE

Attila Tóth is a Partner and Chief Strategist at Ordovian and a member of the Investment Committee. He leads digital due diligence and technology risk across the group’s transactions, where digital infrastructure, data integrity and scalability bear directly on value.

As co-founder of Cognitive Creators, he has advised OTP Bank, Deutsche Telekom, LAT Nitrogen, OMV and Electrolux on digitalisation, transformation and brand valuation.

Expertise

  • Digital due diligence
  • Technology and systems architecture
  • Data integrity and cyber risk
  • Brand valuation
André Yeghiazarian

André Yeghiazarian

Director & Investment Committee

London

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EXPERIENCE & PERSPECTIVE

André Yeghiazarian is a Director of Ordovian and a member of its Investment Committee. He is a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer specialising in financial and civil fraud, asset-tracing, shipping and superyachts, and cross-border enforcement, with matters before the High Court, the Court of Appeal and international arbitration.

His work includes defending a USD 3 billion worldwide freezing order and acting on USD 2 billion fraud and EUR 200 million superyacht disputes. He is a Senior Associate at gunnercooke llp, with a law degree from the University of Warwick and an LLM in International Arbitration.

Expertise

  • Fraud and asset-tracing
  • Litigation and arbitration
  • Shipping and superyachts
  • Counterparty and transactional legal risk

STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Specialist experience.
Shared conviction.

Jake Crowley

Jake Crowley

Co-General Partner & Investment Committee

Managing Partner, Crowley Capital

Austin, TX

EXPERIENCE & PERSPECTIVE

Jake Crowley is a Co-General Partner of Ordovian and a member of the Investment Committee. He is Managing Partner of Crowley Capital, which invests across venture, private equity and strategic assets alongside family offices, sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors. Its focus spans infrastructure, data centers, energy, sports and dual-use technology.

At Ordovian he works across the full investment cycle: originating transactions, leading diligence and structuring, and sitting on the Investment Committee. He also brings co-investors and LPs into the group’s deals across sports, energy and infrastructure.

Expertise

  • Capital formation and fund raising
  • Private markets and secondaries
  • LP and co-investor relationships
Frédéric Maurer, PhD

Frédéric Maurer, PhD

Co-General Partner & Investment Committee, Infrastructure & Energy

General Partner, RP1 Capital

Bern

EXPERIENCE & PERSPECTIVE

Frédéric Maurer is General Partner of RP1 Capital, a Luxembourg-based investment firm focused on energy resilience, infrastructure and industrial technology. He is also Co-General Partner for Ordovian’s infrastructure and energy vertical.

He has more than 15 years in the energy sector, including over a decade in power generation with Alstom Power and GE Renewable Energy. There he led technical tendering on hydro-generator contracts of up to USD 400 million and negotiated with utilities and development banks across three continents. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from EPFL.

At Ordovian he works across the full investment cycle: originating transactions, leading diligence and structuring, and sitting on the Investment Committee. In the infrastructure and energy vertical, his focus is technical deliverability, grid access and execution risk from ready-to-build through early operations.

Expertise

  • Power generation and grid infrastructure
  • Technical due diligence
  • Contract risk and negotiation
  • Energy markets

ADVISORY BOARD

Insight before and
after investment.

László Alpár Lukács

Co-founder & CEO of Cognitive Creators, with a background in investment banking.

Pre-investment

Supports investor relationships and transaction risk assessment, testing a target’s commercial and digital case alongside Ordovian’s diligence.

Post-investment

Works with management on operational efficiency, removing the manual processes and reporting gaps that hold back performance.

Zsolt Bálint

Co-founder & CTO of Cognitive Creators. He assesses technology and innovation capacity before acquisition and advises boards on applied innovation afterwards. He is also founder and CEO of InPos Soft.

Pre-investment

Leads technology due diligence, assessing a target’s architecture, scalability, data and cloud infrastructure. The aim is to separate real technology capacity from inflated claims and to surface the risks that would erode returns.

Post-investment

Advises on technology modernisation and applied innovation, prioritising the fixes and builds that unlock growth.

Árpád Halmágyi

Co-founder of Cognitive Creators; CTO and owner of Creative Instinkt.

Pre-investment

Assesses the innovation and digital performance a target can genuinely deliver, including digital feasibility and digital brand strength, to validate the growth case before capital is committed.

Post-investment

Advises on digital growth, brand and product execution in portfolio companies.

WHAT LEADERSHIP MEANS AT ORDOVIAN

It isn’t about authority.
It’s about ownership.

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Taking responsibility for decisions.

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Maintaining independence of judgment.

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Protecting our partners’ interests and confidentiality.

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Operating with discipline under pressure.

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A shared standard.
A lasting partnership.