Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Vladimir Vano Senior State Counsellor State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic.

Vladimir Vano currently serves as Senior State Counsellor to the State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic.

Vladimir Vano is alumnus of Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and Carlson School of Management. A laureate of the Rector’s Academic Award of Comenius University in Bratislava, he studied at its College of Management, and thanks to competitively won scholarships also at the College of Charleston, Georgetown and New York University. He also attended courses at Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Sun Yat-Sen University (China) and Indian School of Business. His overseas professional experience comes from internships with economic think-tank NGO in Washington, D.C. and with the global headquarter of Merrill Lynch in New York City in 2001. Vladimir Vano’s experience with Central European economic development begun in the nineties with Deloitte&Touche. In 1999, he entered the financial sector as research assistant to the Chief Economist of Slovak branch of ING. Upon return from New York, he became the Head of Research with Treasury Division of Slovenska sporitelna. Since 2002, he was regular columnist on regional and global financial markets in economic and business magazine TREND. In 2011 and 2012 he served as external advisor for monetary affairs to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic Ivan Miklos. Since 2007, he assumed position of the Chief Analyst of Volskbank Slovensko and in July 2013, board of Sberbank Europe AG appointed him to serve as Head of CEE Research Competence Center. Vladimir served on the Committee for Macroeconomic Forecasts at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, which operates under stipulations of the “Constitutional Act on Public Debt Ceiling”. Vladimir also served on the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board of the Pontis Foundation in Bratislava, as well as on the International Alumni Board of the WU Executive Academy in Vienna. He is regular lecturer for domestic and international universities as well as at international professional conferences.

He is member of Mensa and Rotary Club Bratislava.

Bill Fawkner-Corbett Investment Director CEE Equity Partners

Bill has over 20 years' experience of deal making in the CEE region, both as an investor and as an advisor. Although based in CEE Equity’s office in Warsaw, he spends much of his time travelling in CEE / SEE.

He joined CEE Equity in October 2013, and was initially responsible for 15 of the Fund’s 16 countries. He initiated and started the execution of the Fund’s first investment outside Poland – the partial buy-out of Hungary’s leading private university in December 2014.

He also initiated and led the execution of the Fund’s co-investment with Black Peak Capital into Walltopia (the world leader in the manufacture and installation of indoor climbing walls); and Javna Razsvetljava, a Slovenian municipal lighting company.

His area of responsibility is now (slightly) more manageable - Czech, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and all of former Yugoslavia.

His early career was as an officer in the British Army, which included active service in the Falkland Islands and the First Gulf War, for which he was awarded an MBE. He has an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from Henley Management College.

Filip Berkowski Investment Partner MCI

Filip Berkowski, investment partner, overseas MCI’s investments in IAI, Netrisk Group, and Focus Telecom Polska and focuses on SaaS, insurtech, payments, data center, and cybersecurity sectors. Geographically, he is also responsible for transactions in Poland and Hungary.

Prior to MCI, Filip was vice president at Enterprise Investors, where he gained investment experience in various industries including IT, telecom, data centers, financial services, retail, and consumer goods. Filip began his career at EY working in transaction advisory. Filip is FCCA qualified, a CFA charterholder, and a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics.

Jiří Kolísko Investment Manager Genesis Capital Equity

Jiri is an Investment Manager in Genesis Capital where he focuses on SME deals in the CEE region. He is also responsible for the ESG agenda throughout the funds managed by Genesis. Previously, he worked in the M&A team at Ernst & Young advising clients with transactions across various industries and in Roland Berger, where he focused primarily on commercial due diligence projects and market analyses for a variety of clients including Private Equity funds. Jiri graduated in economics from Charles University and studied also at McGill University in Canada and Georg-August-Universität in Germany.

Philip Whitchelo Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer STERLING TECHNOLOGY

Philip is chief strategy & marketing officer at Sterling Technology, a premium provider of virtual data room solutions for M&A, capital markets, and real estate. He has more than 30 years' experience working in strategy, M&A, corporate development, and corporate finance leadership roles in management consulting, investment banking, public companies, and private equity backed firms. Philip is a non-executive adviser to startups, investment management and private equity firms. He has served as an honorary visiting fellow in finance, and as a member of the advisory board of the M&A Research Centre, at Cass Business School. He is a co-author of over a dozen published M&A research studies and papers, as well as a co-inventor and patent holder for computerised, networked secure collaboration technology. Philip graduated from the University of London with Masters degrees in computer science and finance.

Dorian Macovei Managing Director/ Romania Blackpeak Capital

Dorian is a Managing Director with BlackPeak Capital, responsible for Romania. BlackPeak Capital is a Private Equity firm focused on investing growth equity in Southeast Europe, with 150m AUM. Before joining BlackPeak, Dorian worked 16 years with Vienna based EMSA Capital and its predecessor TRG Asset Management managing private equity funds across the CEE region. Dorian graduated from Academy of Economic Sciences in Bucharest. Dorian is CFA Chartholder and member of the CFA Institute.

Kerim Turkmen Partner MidEuopra

Kerim Turkmen is a Partner of Mid Europa Partners and Head of the Services sector and the Regional teams. He also serves on the Management and Investment Committees. Kerim leads the deal sourcing, execution and monitoring of investments in the services and related technology sectors. Kerim currently sits on the board of Pigu, Symfonia, Intive and Cargus.

Prior to joining the team, he worked at GMT Communications Partners, a private equity fund specialising in telecommunications and media. Previously, he worked in the Investment Banking Division at Merrill Lynch in London. Kerim holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College and an M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.

Stepan Karpukhin Managing Director The Rohatyn Group

Stepan Karpukhin is a Managing Director and a member of the CEEMEA Private Markets investment team. He is based in London.

Mr. Karpukhin focuses on sourcing, evaluating, executing and monitoring investments across CEE and Russia/CIS. Mr. Karpukhin focuses on the Consumer sector. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of two portfolio companies, Prestige in Bulgaria and Pet Centar in Croatia.

Prior to joining TRG in December 2013, he was a member of the Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI) investment team from 2006. At CVCI, Mr. Karpukhin led investments in pharmaceutical, retail infrastructure, and consumer industries, and served on the Boards of Directors of four portfolio companies. Before CVCI, Mr. Karpukhin was a Senior Associate with Booz Allen, a leading global strategy consultancy, based in London. He worked at Booz Allen for six years, leading a variety of strategic and operational assignments for global clients in the retail, consumer, telecommunications, and oil & gas sectors. Prior to that, between 1993 and 1998, Mr. Karpukhin held a number of positions at PepsiCo in Moscow, Russia, most recently as a Finance Director of PepsiCo’s fast food business.

Mr. Karpukhin holds an MS degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences from Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute, and an MBA from Duke University. Mr. Karpukhin is fluent in Russian.

Tamás Nagy Co-Head of Private Equity EBRD

Tamás Nagy, Director, Equity Partner, Southern and Central Europe, Baltics, Caucasus 

Tamás joined EBRD in 2018 to head equity deal sourcing and execution in Southern and Central Europe, Baltics and Caucasus.

Previously he was a Managing Director and Partner at Advent International, one of the largest and most experienced private equity investment companies in the world. He took a variety of roles, leading investment team across the entire deal cycle in a number of investments in Central and Eastern Europe. He also headed the Budapest and Kiev offices earlier in his career with Advent. Prior to joining Advent, he was with ING Barings, covering Eastern European corporate finance based in London.

Tamás holds an EMBA in Business Strategy from Kellogg-WHU, masters and undergraduate degrees in International Business from Alliance Manchester Business School and in Business Administration, Economics and Software Engineering from Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Ákos Mátés-Lányi Head of M&A Practice Hungary Noerr

Ákos Mátés-Lányi heads the transactions and M&A practice at Noerr’s office in Budapest. He is specialised on cross-border M&A, private equity and capital markets matters. He has substantial experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, including M&A, private equity transactions, disposals, joint ventures, corporate finance, restructurings and equity capital markets. He has extensive experience in advising private equity and venture capital clients. Ákos is also a member of the Ethics Committee of the Hungarian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

Jose Cabrita Head of CEE - Lower Mid-Market Investments EIF

José is the Head of Unit at the Lower Mid-Market team of the EIF focusing on Central and Eastern European markets, as well as represents EIF in a number of Advisory Boards. He joined the EIF in 2010 as Resident Representative / Office Head in Madrid and managed different fund-of-funds initiatives dedicated to Iberia, such as Neotec Capital Riesgo, EAF Spain and PVCi. Before joining the EIF, José worked at Lehman Brothers and Nomura International. He holds a degree in civil engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona.

Stephan Pachinger Partner Freshfields

Stephan’s work is focused on providing capital markets advice to listed companies and financial institutions ranging from IPOs, rights offerings and accelerated equity placements to equity-linked and debt capital markets transactions, including related regulatory advice.

He also regularly advises banks on structured finance transactions and bank regulation.

In addition, he is part of the global FinTech group and heads the respective team in Vienna.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Razvan Butucaru Partner, Financial Services & Advisory Leader MAZARS Romania

As a Partner, Financial Services & Advisory Leader within Mazars Romania, Răzvan Butucaru, together with his team of passionate professionals, offers support for the critical moments that define the success of a business.

Răzvan is currently leading the financial services and advisory group within our local office which comprises a variety of business lines such as deals, financing, due diligence, and risk consulting.

Throughout his career, Răzvan has been involved in complex M&A projects, that further developed the M&A activity in Romania. He has a strong experience with Romanian and international clients, to whom he provided M&A advisory services, dealing with the overall management of a transaction on its whole, namely the strategic analysis, the valuation, the M&A process management, the structure of the transaction, and the assistance to the negotiation.

Besides advising his clients in determining the path to improved profitability and business value, he regularly conducts workshops for them, speaks at various technical events and he is the author of numerous articles in the specialized press.

Răzvan holds a BSc from The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, majoring in Banks and Stock Exchange from the Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banks and Stock Exchange alongside a MSc from the same university majoring in Internal audit within the financial services sector. He is a Certified Romanian Auditor, member of the Chamber of Financial Auditors of Romania (CAFR) and a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Tereza S. Scheffel Investment Director SINO-CEEF Europe

Tereza is a Director in the European investment team of the private equity fund SINO-CEEF Capital. 

The fund is focusing on the CEE region and other geographies relevant to the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, and is looking to invest and support CEE companies in their future development and growth prospects, also by fostering Chinese-European cooperation ambitions, if and when possible. The fund is pursuing majority and minority equity as well as mezzanine investments across various sectors. Tereza is responsible for the deal origination and execution efforts of the fund in Europe. 

Prior to joining SINO-CEEF in October 2017, she worked for 8 years at Morgan Stanley in a variety of positions within the Investment Banking/M&A and Global Capital Markets divisions, both in London and Frankfurt. Tereza holds Master’s degree in Business Administration (Corporate Finance) from the University of Mannheim in Germany. 

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Krzysztof Konopinski Partner Spire Capital

Krzysztof has co-founded Spire Capital Partners (SCP) - a specialist mid-cap private equity tech investor in 2021. Krzysztof has been a private equity investor for almost a decade with a focus on digital and tech companies. Before he founded SCP, Krzysztof had been Partner and investment committee member at EUR 600m CEE leading private equity firm - MCI Capital, focusing on investments in digital economy. Earlier, operational experience had helped him to develop interdisciplinary leadership skills and enriched him at the intersection of technology, big data, people, and international expansion. Krzysztof combines an optimistic outlook with a strong sense of a company’s limits and operational challenges to help guide portfolio companies to success.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Levente Zsembery CEO X-Ventures

Levente Zsembery earned his PhD in Financial Risk Management from the Corvinus University of Budapest (Budapest University of Economics) in 2004, and his undergraduate degree in Finance in 1996 from the same institution. Since 1996 he was a fulltime, later part-time lecturer at the University’s Institute of Finance. In 2005-2006 Levente worked as Director of Capital Market Transactions for the Hungarian State Motorway Management Company. Between 2006 and 2010, he was director and member of the board of directors of UniCredit CAIB Hungary, Hungary’s leading Hungarian investment bank. Since 2010 he is heading X-Ventures, one of the leading Hungarian venture capital firms. 

Levente is an active member of the HVCA (Hungarian Venture Capital Association), serving as its chairman between 2015 and 2018 and chairman of the supervisory board since 2020. He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Budapest Stock Exchange and member of the board of trustees of the Central European Brokerage Foundation.

Sylwester Janik General Partner Cogito Capital Partners

Sylwester is a Founding Partner of Cogito Capital Partners and is responsible for the Fund’s Fintech, Mobile and IoT, AI & Machine Learning and Consumer Internet investments. Prior to Cogito, Sylwester was a Senior Partner and Member of the Board at MCI Capital, one of the leading European private equity group where he led the team of MCI.TechVenture Fund (EUR 250M+ AUM), focused on growth technology investments in Central Europe, Western Europe, Russia and Turkey.

Among Sylwester’s investments were Azimo, Answear, MarketInvoice, Morele.net, Travelata, iZettle (acquired by PayPal for $2.2B). He also completed several successful exits including Invia, One-2-One, NaviExpert, NetPress and NetRetail Holding.

Sylwester has 20 years of experience in VC/growth technology investments, strategic management, business development and M&A gained at senior executive roles among others at Lockheed Martin Technology Accelerator, ATM SA and PwC. He also has served as the Vice President of Polish Private Equity Association (2011-2018).

Sylwester holds an MBA in Strategic Management of Technology and e-Business from Cass Business School in London, UK.

Sylwester is based in Warsaw.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Christian Ruthner Head of Corporate Development MM Group

Senior leader with successful international track record across various industries - Paper & Packaging, Aviation, IT as most recent ones. More than 15 years experience in Strategy and M&A.

Martin Schwarzbichler VP M&A OMV

Martin Schwarzbichler, Vice President Mergers & Acquisitions, OMV AG. With a degree in business administration, he established around two decades of track record in the energy segment. Martin is specialized on international M&A deals, large scale projects and financings as well as restructurings.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Robert Szatkowski Senior Portfolio Manager | Infrastructure APG Asset Management

Robert is a Senior Portfolio Manager in APG’s European infrastructure team, located in Amsterdam. He has over 15 years of experience in infrastructure investment, asset management and project finance. Within APG Asset Management he is responsible for sourcing, executing and asset management activities in infrastructure equity investments with a spectrum ranging from renewables, energy services and energy transition related infrastructure. Robert currently holds a board member position in North-Star (APG’s Nordics renewables platform) and a board member position in Merkur Offshore (APG’s first direct investment in the offshore wind sector). Before joining APG, Robert worked as Senior Investment Manager for MEAG Asset Management, where he was directly responsible for origination, execution and management of new projects in renewable energy and transportation sector in Europe. Within his role he held also several board positions on assets like Tank & Rast, Indigo and EGM Wind. Prior MEAG Robert worked for E.ON Climate & Renewables on new investments in renewable energies. Robert has degrees in Law from the University of Poznan (Mgr.) and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/O. (LL.M) and a MSc in Renewable Energies from the Technical University of Vienna.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Vasily Astrov Senior Economist The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Vasily Astrov is Economist at wiiw and country expert for Russia and other CIS countries. His research focuses on macroeconomic analysis and energy issues. He is also editor of the wiiw Monthly Report. In his recent research, he has analysed the economic effects of the global crisis and European energy security issues. He assembled comprehensive academic and international experience in the United Kingdom (University of Warwick), Germany (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität), Norway (University of Oslo) and Russia (St. Petersburg State University) and graduated in economics (M.Sc., Dipl.-Vw) and geography (B.A.).

Michal Kedzia Partner Enterprise Investors

Michał Kędzia concentrates on the FMCG, financial services and healthcare sectors. Joined Enterprise Investors in 2007. His most important projects to date include Dino, Intersport ISI, Nu-Med Grupa, PAN-PEK and Studenac. He is responsible for investments in Slovenia and Croatia. Prior to joining EI, Michał worked in the mergers and acquisitions team at Ernst & Young (today EY) in Warsaw.

Przemek Glebocki Managing Partner Accession Capital Partners

Przemysław is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Accession Capital Partners (previously Mezzanine Management). He is also a board member of Profi, Domino’s Poland, Flukar, Nettle, Cenatorium and Spearhead International.

Accession Capital Partners (previously Mezzanine Management) pioneered mezzanine finance in Central Europe in 2000 and have since evolved to become a one-stop-shop for junior capital to mid-market businesses. It successfully raised above EUR 850 across four funds, helping m 57 businesses grow – organically and through acquisitions; domestically and abroad.

Przemek has twenty years of experience in private equity and corporate finance in Central Europe. Prior to joining ACP, Przemyslaw was with Ernst & Young ‘s Corporate Finance and Audit departments. He holds a Master Degree in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics and has pursued study programs in the U.S. and the Netherlands.

Magdalena Śniegocka Investment Director CVI

Magdalena Śniegocka is an experienced investment and finance professional with 14 years of international, cross-sector track record. In her professional career, she executed over USD 12 billion worth of investments and capital raising transactions and supervised multiple portfolio companies. 

Currently, she holds a position of Investment Director and a Member of Investment Committee at CVI, being responsible for origination, execution and monitoring of private debt and private equity investments. Prior to joining CVI, she gained experience in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers and Nomura in London, where she advised international corporate clients and financial sponsors on Acquisition and Leveraged Finance, Equity and Debt Capital Markets. Later, she led Corporate Finance department for Kulczyk Investments, a Polish private investment company with over USD 4 billion in AUM in public and private equity investments in consumer, chemical, technology, infrastructure and energy projects.

Magdalena earned her MSc in Finance from ESCP Europe, studying in London, Madrid and Paris. She also has MA in Investment and Corporate Finance Strategy from Poznan University of Economics and is an Alumna of Harvard Business School in Boston (PLD). In addition to native Polish, she speaks English, Spanish and French.

Florian Klimscha Partner Freshfields

Florian specialises in banking law, debt financing transactions and corporate restructurings.

He advises lenders and borrowers with respect to all types of financing transactions. Florian also has a strong knowledge and track-record in corporate restructuring as well as the sale and purchase of NPLs. His regulatory background and deep knowledge of banking operations add significant value for clients in transactions.

Florian is a member of our CEE/CIS-group and a regular speaker at conferences.

He speaks German and English.

Tomas Holly Managing Director EMSA Capital

Tomas has over fifteen years of corporate finance experience in Central Europe and the CIS. He specializes in turning around companies in trouble, capital restructurings and operational improvements. His background is in financial modeling and valuations.

The most notable projects include a re-start of a food retailer in Azerbaijan, restructuring of a metal processing company to enable its growth in the DACH region and a turnaround with operational improvements of a windows producer in Romania. Further, he worked on projects in a broad range of industries, notably retail, distribution, manufacturing, energy and utilities, iron and steel, transport, construction as well as several portfolios of non-performing loans. He currently serves as a director or board member in multiple portfolio companies.

Prior to joining EMSA Capital, Tomas worked for the financial advisory practice of Deloitte Central Europe on assignments mostly in Slovakia, Czech Republic and the Balkan countries.

Tomas holds a Master’s in International Economics and Business from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and a Master’s in Financial Management from Comenius University (Slovakia). He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a CFA Charterholder. 

Jonathan Nighswander Partner Schottentor Capital

Based in Vienna, Austria, Jon Nighswander is a partner at Schottentor Capital and a distressed debt investor with over two decades of experience working with lenders and debt-holders seeking to recover value.  Jon began his career in Central and EasternEurope leading privatization and advisory projects in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the Balkans.  He subsequently spent a decade as a Managing Director in the US based business advisory practice of a global turnaround management firm, where he advised private equity sponsors and other stakeholders in a number of high-profile restructurings and acquisitions.  In 2011 Jon returned to CEE to join a private equity group acquiring distressed assets in the region, including investments in Poland and Romania.  In 2017 he and a partner teamed up with NewYork-based Chatham Lane Capital to create Schottentor Capital, an alternative asset management platform focusing on distressed debt opportunities in CEE, Spain and Italy. 

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Vladimir Vano Senior State Counsellor State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic.

Vladimir Vano currently serves as Senior State Counsellor to the State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic.

Vladimir Vano is alumnus of Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and Carlson School of Management. A laureate of the Rector’s Academic Award of Comenius University in Bratislava, he studied at its College of Management, and thanks to competitively won scholarships also at the College of Charleston, Georgetown and New York University. He also attended courses at Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Sun Yat-Sen University (China) and Indian School of Business. His overseas professional experience comes from internships with economic think-tank NGO in Washington, D.C. and with the global headquarter of Merrill Lynch in New York City in 2001. Vladimir Vano’s experience with Central European economic development begun in the nineties with Deloitte&Touche. In 1999, he entered the financial sector as research assistant to the Chief Economist of Slovak branch of ING. Upon return from New York, he became the Head of Research with Treasury Division of Slovenska sporitelna. Since 2002, he was regular columnist on regional and global financial markets in economic and business magazine TREND. In 2011 and 2012 he served as external advisor for monetary affairs to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic Ivan Miklos. Since 2007, he assumed position of the Chief Analyst of Volskbank Slovensko and in July 2013, board of Sberbank Europe AG appointed him to serve as Head of CEE Research Competence Center. Vladimir served on the Committee for Macroeconomic Forecasts at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, which operates under stipulations of the “Constitutional Act on Public Debt Ceiling”. Vladimir also served on the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board of the Pontis Foundation in Bratislava, as well as on the International Alumni Board of the WU Executive Academy in Vienna. He is regular lecturer for domestic and international universities as well as at international professional conferences.

He is member of Mensa and Rotary Club Bratislava.

Bill Fawkner-Corbett Investment Director CEE Equity Partners

Bill has over 20 years' experience of deal making in the CEE region, both as an investor and as an advisor. Although based in CEE Equity’s office in Warsaw, he spends much of his time travelling in CEE / SEE.

He joined CEE Equity in October 2013, and was initially responsible for 15 of the Fund’s 16 countries. He initiated and started the execution of the Fund’s first investment outside Poland – the partial buy-out of Hungary’s leading private university in December 2014.

He also initiated and led the execution of the Fund’s co-investment with Black Peak Capital into Walltopia (the world leader in the manufacture and installation of indoor climbing walls); and Javna Razsvetljava, a Slovenian municipal lighting company.

His area of responsibility is now (slightly) more manageable - Czech, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and all of former Yugoslavia.

His early career was as an officer in the British Army, which included active service in the Falkland Islands and the First Gulf War, for which he was awarded an MBE. He has an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from Henley Management College.

Filip Berkowski Investment Partner MCI

Filip Berkowski, investment partner, overseas MCI’s investments in IAI, Netrisk Group, and Focus Telecom Polska and focuses on SaaS, insurtech, payments, data center, and cybersecurity sectors. Geographically, he is also responsible for transactions in Poland and Hungary.

Prior to MCI, Filip was vice president at Enterprise Investors, where he gained investment experience in various industries including IT, telecom, data centers, financial services, retail, and consumer goods. Filip began his career at EY working in transaction advisory. Filip is FCCA qualified, a CFA charterholder, and a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics.

Jiří Kolísko Investment Manager Genesis Capital Equity

Jiri is an Investment Manager in Genesis Capital where he focuses on SME deals in the CEE region. He is also responsible for the ESG agenda throughout the funds managed by Genesis. Previously, he worked in the M&A team at Ernst & Young advising clients with transactions across various industries and in Roland Berger, where he focused primarily on commercial due diligence projects and market analyses for a variety of clients including Private Equity funds. Jiri graduated in economics from Charles University and studied also at McGill University in Canada and Georg-August-Universität in Germany.

Philip Whitchelo Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer STERLING TECHNOLOGY

Philip is chief strategy & marketing officer at Sterling Technology, a premium provider of virtual data room solutions for M&A, capital markets, and real estate. He has more than 30 years' experience working in strategy, M&A, corporate development, and corporate finance leadership roles in management consulting, investment banking, public companies, and private equity backed firms. Philip is a non-executive adviser to startups, investment management and private equity firms. He has served as an honorary visiting fellow in finance, and as a member of the advisory board of the M&A Research Centre, at Cass Business School. He is a co-author of over a dozen published M&A research studies and papers, as well as a co-inventor and patent holder for computerised, networked secure collaboration technology. Philip graduated from the University of London with Masters degrees in computer science and finance.

Dorian Macovei Managing Director/ Romania Blackpeak Capital

Dorian is a Managing Director with BlackPeak Capital, responsible for Romania. BlackPeak Capital is a Private Equity firm focused on investing growth equity in Southeast Europe, with 150m AUM. Before joining BlackPeak, Dorian worked 16 years with Vienna based EMSA Capital and its predecessor TRG Asset Management managing private equity funds across the CEE region. Dorian graduated from Academy of Economic Sciences in Bucharest. Dorian is CFA Chartholder and member of the CFA Institute.

Kerim Turkmen Partner MidEuopra

Kerim Turkmen is a Partner of Mid Europa Partners and Head of the Services sector and the Regional teams. He also serves on the Management and Investment Committees. Kerim leads the deal sourcing, execution and monitoring of investments in the services and related technology sectors. Kerim currently sits on the board of Pigu, Symfonia, Intive and Cargus.

Prior to joining the team, he worked at GMT Communications Partners, a private equity fund specialising in telecommunications and media. Previously, he worked in the Investment Banking Division at Merrill Lynch in London. Kerim holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College and an M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.

Stepan Karpukhin Managing Director The Rohatyn Group

Stepan Karpukhin is a Managing Director and a member of the CEEMEA Private Markets investment team. He is based in London.

Mr. Karpukhin focuses on sourcing, evaluating, executing and monitoring investments across CEE and Russia/CIS. Mr. Karpukhin focuses on the Consumer sector. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of two portfolio companies, Prestige in Bulgaria and Pet Centar in Croatia.

Prior to joining TRG in December 2013, he was a member of the Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI) investment team from 2006. At CVCI, Mr. Karpukhin led investments in pharmaceutical, retail infrastructure, and consumer industries, and served on the Boards of Directors of four portfolio companies. Before CVCI, Mr. Karpukhin was a Senior Associate with Booz Allen, a leading global strategy consultancy, based in London. He worked at Booz Allen for six years, leading a variety of strategic and operational assignments for global clients in the retail, consumer, telecommunications, and oil & gas sectors. Prior to that, between 1993 and 1998, Mr. Karpukhin held a number of positions at PepsiCo in Moscow, Russia, most recently as a Finance Director of PepsiCo’s fast food business.

Mr. Karpukhin holds an MS degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences from Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute, and an MBA from Duke University. Mr. Karpukhin is fluent in Russian.

Tamás Nagy Co-Head of Private Equity EBRD

Tamás Nagy, Director, Equity Partner, Southern and Central Europe, Baltics, Caucasus 

Tamás joined EBRD in 2018 to head equity deal sourcing and execution in Southern and Central Europe, Baltics and Caucasus.

Previously he was a Managing Director and Partner at Advent International, one of the largest and most experienced private equity investment companies in the world. He took a variety of roles, leading investment team across the entire deal cycle in a number of investments in Central and Eastern Europe. He also headed the Budapest and Kiev offices earlier in his career with Advent. Prior to joining Advent, he was with ING Barings, covering Eastern European corporate finance based in London.

Tamás holds an EMBA in Business Strategy from Kellogg-WHU, masters and undergraduate degrees in International Business from Alliance Manchester Business School and in Business Administration, Economics and Software Engineering from Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Ákos Mátés-Lányi Head of M&A Practice Hungary Noerr

Ákos Mátés-Lányi heads the transactions and M&A practice at Noerr’s office in Budapest. He is specialised on cross-border M&A, private equity and capital markets matters. He has substantial experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, including M&A, private equity transactions, disposals, joint ventures, corporate finance, restructurings and equity capital markets. He has extensive experience in advising private equity and venture capital clients. Ákos is also a member of the Ethics Committee of the Hungarian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

Jose Cabrita Head of CEE - Lower Mid-Market Investments EIF

José is the Head of Unit at the Lower Mid-Market team of the EIF focusing on Central and Eastern European markets, as well as represents EIF in a number of Advisory Boards. He joined the EIF in 2010 as Resident Representative / Office Head in Madrid and managed different fund-of-funds initiatives dedicated to Iberia, such as Neotec Capital Riesgo, EAF Spain and PVCi. Before joining the EIF, José worked at Lehman Brothers and Nomura International. He holds a degree in civil engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona.

Stephan Pachinger Partner Freshfields

Stephan’s work is focused on providing capital markets advice to listed companies and financial institutions ranging from IPOs, rights offerings and accelerated equity placements to equity-linked and debt capital markets transactions, including related regulatory advice.

He also regularly advises banks on structured finance transactions and bank regulation.

In addition, he is part of the global FinTech group and heads the respective team in Vienna.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Razvan Butucaru Partner, Financial Services & Advisory Leader MAZARS Romania

As a Partner, Financial Services & Advisory Leader within Mazars Romania, Răzvan Butucaru, together with his team of passionate professionals, offers support for the critical moments that define the success of a business.

Răzvan is currently leading the financial services and advisory group within our local office which comprises a variety of business lines such as deals, financing, due diligence, and risk consulting.

Throughout his career, Răzvan has been involved in complex M&A projects, that further developed the M&A activity in Romania. He has a strong experience with Romanian and international clients, to whom he provided M&A advisory services, dealing with the overall management of a transaction on its whole, namely the strategic analysis, the valuation, the M&A process management, the structure of the transaction, and the assistance to the negotiation.

Besides advising his clients in determining the path to improved profitability and business value, he regularly conducts workshops for them, speaks at various technical events and he is the author of numerous articles in the specialized press.

Răzvan holds a BSc from The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, majoring in Banks and Stock Exchange from the Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banks and Stock Exchange alongside a MSc from the same university majoring in Internal audit within the financial services sector. He is a Certified Romanian Auditor, member of the Chamber of Financial Auditors of Romania (CAFR) and a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Tereza S. Scheffel Investment Director SINO-CEEF Europe

Tereza is a Director in the European investment team of the private equity fund SINO-CEEF Capital. 

The fund is focusing on the CEE region and other geographies relevant to the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, and is looking to invest and support CEE companies in their future development and growth prospects, also by fostering Chinese-European cooperation ambitions, if and when possible. The fund is pursuing majority and minority equity as well as mezzanine investments across various sectors. Tereza is responsible for the deal origination and execution efforts of the fund in Europe. 

Prior to joining SINO-CEEF in October 2017, she worked for 8 years at Morgan Stanley in a variety of positions within the Investment Banking/M&A and Global Capital Markets divisions, both in London and Frankfurt. Tereza holds Master’s degree in Business Administration (Corporate Finance) from the University of Mannheim in Germany. 

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Krzysztof Konopinski Partner Spire Capital

Krzysztof has co-founded Spire Capital Partners (SCP) - a specialist mid-cap private equity tech investor in 2021. Krzysztof has been a private equity investor for almost a decade with a focus on digital and tech companies. Before he founded SCP, Krzysztof had been Partner and investment committee member at EUR 600m CEE leading private equity firm - MCI Capital, focusing on investments in digital economy. Earlier, operational experience had helped him to develop interdisciplinary leadership skills and enriched him at the intersection of technology, big data, people, and international expansion. Krzysztof combines an optimistic outlook with a strong sense of a company’s limits and operational challenges to help guide portfolio companies to success.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Levente Zsembery CEO X-Ventures

Levente Zsembery earned his PhD in Financial Risk Management from the Corvinus University of Budapest (Budapest University of Economics) in 2004, and his undergraduate degree in Finance in 1996 from the same institution. Since 1996 he was a fulltime, later part-time lecturer at the University’s Institute of Finance. In 2005-2006 Levente worked as Director of Capital Market Transactions for the Hungarian State Motorway Management Company. Between 2006 and 2010, he was director and member of the board of directors of UniCredit CAIB Hungary, Hungary’s leading Hungarian investment bank. Since 2010 he is heading X-Ventures, one of the leading Hungarian venture capital firms. 

Levente is an active member of the HVCA (Hungarian Venture Capital Association), serving as its chairman between 2015 and 2018 and chairman of the supervisory board since 2020. He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Budapest Stock Exchange and member of the board of trustees of the Central European Brokerage Foundation.

Sylwester Janik General Partner Cogito Capital Partners

Sylwester is a Founding Partner of Cogito Capital Partners and is responsible for the Fund’s Fintech, Mobile and IoT, AI & Machine Learning and Consumer Internet investments. Prior to Cogito, Sylwester was a Senior Partner and Member of the Board at MCI Capital, one of the leading European private equity group where he led the team of MCI.TechVenture Fund (EUR 250M+ AUM), focused on growth technology investments in Central Europe, Western Europe, Russia and Turkey.

Among Sylwester’s investments were Azimo, Answear, MarketInvoice, Morele.net, Travelata, iZettle (acquired by PayPal for $2.2B). He also completed several successful exits including Invia, One-2-One, NaviExpert, NetPress and NetRetail Holding.

Sylwester has 20 years of experience in VC/growth technology investments, strategic management, business development and M&A gained at senior executive roles among others at Lockheed Martin Technology Accelerator, ATM SA and PwC. He also has served as the Vice President of Polish Private Equity Association (2011-2018).

Sylwester holds an MBA in Strategic Management of Technology and e-Business from Cass Business School in London, UK.

Sylwester is based in Warsaw.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Christian Ruthner Head of Corporate Development MM Group

Senior leader with successful international track record across various industries - Paper & Packaging, Aviation, IT as most recent ones. More than 15 years experience in Strategy and M&A.

Martin Schwarzbichler VP M&A OMV

Martin Schwarzbichler, Vice President Mergers & Acquisitions, OMV AG. With a degree in business administration, he established around two decades of track record in the energy segment. Martin is specialized on international M&A deals, large scale projects and financings as well as restructurings.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Robert Szatkowski Senior Portfolio Manager | Infrastructure APG Asset Management

Robert is a Senior Portfolio Manager in APG’s European infrastructure team, located in Amsterdam. He has over 15 years of experience in infrastructure investment, asset management and project finance. Within APG Asset Management he is responsible for sourcing, executing and asset management activities in infrastructure equity investments with a spectrum ranging from renewables, energy services and energy transition related infrastructure. Robert currently holds a board member position in North-Star (APG’s Nordics renewables platform) and a board member position in Merkur Offshore (APG’s first direct investment in the offshore wind sector). Before joining APG, Robert worked as Senior Investment Manager for MEAG Asset Management, where he was directly responsible for origination, execution and management of new projects in renewable energy and transportation sector in Europe. Within his role he held also several board positions on assets like Tank & Rast, Indigo and EGM Wind. Prior MEAG Robert worked for E.ON Climate & Renewables on new investments in renewable energies. Robert has degrees in Law from the University of Poznan (Mgr.) and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/O. (LL.M) and a MSc in Renewable Energies from the Technical University of Vienna.

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Vasily Astrov Senior Economist The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Vasily Astrov is Economist at wiiw and country expert for Russia and other CIS countries. His research focuses on macroeconomic analysis and energy issues. He is also editor of the wiiw Monthly Report. In his recent research, he has analysed the economic effects of the global crisis and European energy security issues. He assembled comprehensive academic and international experience in the United Kingdom (University of Warwick), Germany (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität), Norway (University of Oslo) and Russia (St. Petersburg State University) and graduated in economics (M.Sc., Dipl.-Vw) and geography (B.A.).

Michal Kedzia Partner Enterprise Investors

Michał Kędzia concentrates on the FMCG, financial services and healthcare sectors. Joined Enterprise Investors in 2007. His most important projects to date include Dino, Intersport ISI, Nu-Med Grupa, PAN-PEK and Studenac. He is responsible for investments in Slovenia and Croatia. Prior to joining EI, Michał worked in the mergers and acquisitions team at Ernst & Young (today EY) in Warsaw.

Przemek Glebocki Managing Partner Accession Capital Partners

Przemysław is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Accession Capital Partners (previously Mezzanine Management). He is also a board member of Profi, Domino’s Poland, Flukar, Nettle, Cenatorium and Spearhead International.

Accession Capital Partners (previously Mezzanine Management) pioneered mezzanine finance in Central Europe in 2000 and have since evolved to become a one-stop-shop for junior capital to mid-market businesses. It successfully raised above EUR 850 across four funds, helping m 57 businesses grow – organically and through acquisitions; domestically and abroad.

Przemek has twenty years of experience in private equity and corporate finance in Central Europe. Prior to joining ACP, Przemyslaw was with Ernst & Young ‘s Corporate Finance and Audit departments. He holds a Master Degree in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics and has pursued study programs in the U.S. and the Netherlands.

Magdalena Śniegocka Investment Director CVI

Magdalena Śniegocka is an experienced investment and finance professional with 14 years of international, cross-sector track record. In her professional career, she executed over USD 12 billion worth of investments and capital raising transactions and supervised multiple portfolio companies. 

Currently, she holds a position of Investment Director and a Member of Investment Committee at CVI, being responsible for origination, execution and monitoring of private debt and private equity investments. Prior to joining CVI, she gained experience in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers and Nomura in London, where she advised international corporate clients and financial sponsors on Acquisition and Leveraged Finance, Equity and Debt Capital Markets. Later, she led Corporate Finance department for Kulczyk Investments, a Polish private investment company with over USD 4 billion in AUM in public and private equity investments in consumer, chemical, technology, infrastructure and energy projects.

Magdalena earned her MSc in Finance from ESCP Europe, studying in London, Madrid and Paris. She also has MA in Investment and Corporate Finance Strategy from Poznan University of Economics and is an Alumna of Harvard Business School in Boston (PLD). In addition to native Polish, she speaks English, Spanish and French.

Florian Klimscha Partner Freshfields

Florian specialises in banking law, debt financing transactions and corporate restructurings.

He advises lenders and borrowers with respect to all types of financing transactions. Florian also has a strong knowledge and track-record in corporate restructuring as well as the sale and purchase of NPLs. His regulatory background and deep knowledge of banking operations add significant value for clients in transactions.

Florian is a member of our CEE/CIS-group and a regular speaker at conferences.

He speaks German and English.

Tomas Holly Managing Director EMSA Capital

Tomas has over fifteen years of corporate finance experience in Central Europe and the CIS. He specializes in turning around companies in trouble, capital restructurings and operational improvements. His background is in financial modeling and valuations.

The most notable projects include a re-start of a food retailer in Azerbaijan, restructuring of a metal processing company to enable its growth in the DACH region and a turnaround with operational improvements of a windows producer in Romania. Further, he worked on projects in a broad range of industries, notably retail, distribution, manufacturing, energy and utilities, iron and steel, transport, construction as well as several portfolios of non-performing loans. He currently serves as a director or board member in multiple portfolio companies.

Prior to joining EMSA Capital, Tomas worked for the financial advisory practice of Deloitte Central Europe on assignments mostly in Slovakia, Czech Republic and the Balkan countries.

Tomas holds a Master’s in International Economics and Business from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and a Master’s in Financial Management from Comenius University (Slovakia). He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a CFA Charterholder. 

Jonathan Nighswander Partner Schottentor Capital

Based in Vienna, Austria, Jon Nighswander is a partner at Schottentor Capital and a distressed debt investor with over two decades of experience working with lenders and debt-holders seeking to recover value.  Jon began his career in Central and EasternEurope leading privatization and advisory projects in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the Balkans.  He subsequently spent a decade as a Managing Director in the US based business advisory practice of a global turnaround management firm, where he advised private equity sponsors and other stakeholders in a number of high-profile restructurings and acquisitions.  In 2011 Jon returned to CEE to join a private equity group acquiring distressed assets in the region, including investments in Poland and Romania.  In 2017 he and a partner teamed up with NewYork-based Chatham Lane Capital to create Schottentor Capital, an alternative asset management platform focusing on distressed debt opportunities in CEE, Spain and Italy. 

Catherine Ford Consultant Editor MERGERMARKET

Catherine Ford is a consultant editor for the events division at Mergermarket. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Mergermarket since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.