Efstathios N Karanikolaidis is a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan's leveraged finance group. He has been with the venerable firm since 2002 after he graduated from the William E Simon Graduate School of Business, at the University of Rochester. Efstathios N Karanikolaidis says that he raises capital to help companies grow, expand their operations, and improve their financial performance. He says that his goals include providing effective financing solutions to clients, maintaining existing client relationship and developing new ones, ultimately expanding the firm's market share in leveraged finance for the industries that he is responsible for.