Mia is the Co-Founder and Group President CEO of GLAS. Mia has built a firm which is now recognised as an award winning global leader in the independent Agency and Trustee space and considered as a global disruptor in the bank agency and trustee market. Mia has significant expertise in working across the institutional debt markets on all types of financing. Mia pioneered the private debt independent agency model in Europe and has built GLAS to be a household name across the private debt community. Mia also has significant expertise in restructuring and bankruptcy and has worked on a number of high profile cases including Debenhams, New Look, Galapagos, JC Penney, Washington Prime, SMCP, Yell Group, Codere, Avanti Group and many others.
After founding GLAS in 2011, Mia completed a strategic investment opportunity with Levine Leichtman Partners completing in May 2022.
Mia is a seasoned banking professional with expertise working on large global restructuring cases and workouts. By background she has over twenty years’ experience in the Capital Markets with specific experience working on a variety of debt instruments. Prior to starting GLAS Mia built the EMEA Trustee and Agency business at The Bank of New York Mellon and was a pioneer in the structured finance market place. Mia has also held high profile positions at Citibank, Simmons & Simmons LLP and KPMG.