Professor Scott Moeller Director, M&A Research Centre Bayes Business School

Scott Moeller is Professor in the Practice of Finance at Bayes Business School, City, University of London where he also is the director and founder of the M&A Research Centre (https://www.bayes.city.ac.uk/faculties-and-research/centres/marc). Before teaching at Bayes, he was a visiting lecturer at the business schools of Imperial College (London) and Oxford University. His most recent book, published in September 2016 for The Economist business book series, is entitled Why Deals Fail & How to Rescue Them: M&A Lessons for Deal Success (co-authored with Michel Driessen and Anna Faelten). One of his books received an award in the United States as one of the top 30 business books of the year in 2008.

Scott had a long career in banking prior to his move to academia. During his six years at Deutsche Bank, Scott was Global Head of the bank’s private equity and corporate venture capital unit. Scott worked first at Booz Allen & Hamilton management consultants for over five years and then at Morgan Stanley for over twelve years in New York, Japan, and then as co-manager and member of the board of Morgan Stanley Bank AG in Germany. Scott has held a number of other board seats throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas and is currently a non-executive director on several boards. Scott is a graduate of Yale College, the Yale Graduate School and the Yale School of Management.

Andrew Philbey Data Quality Manager for the M&A Domain ION Analytics.

Data Quality Manager for the M&A Domain at ION Analytics. Began career 18 years ago with Dealogic starting in the DCM team. Transitioned to M&A in 2010, responsible for covering the UK and Ireland market.

Liana Logiurato NED Intesa Sanpaolo Bank M&A adviser

Leading Board adviser on over $100bn M&A deals and $20bn capital raisings. Creating stakeholder value by originating strategic opportunities for industry transformation & growth. Asian, European and American markets. Biotech, healthcare, technology, communications, industrials, chemicals, agriculture and financial services.

Giovanna Maag Partner Altor Equity Partners

Giovanna is a Partner at Altor Equity Partners in Zurich. She focuses on mid-market investments in the DACH region. Her recent investments are family-owned industrial services company Kaefer and life science process engineering company VTU. Giovanna has c15 years of investment and portfolio management experience in the DACH Mittelstand. Prior to joining Altor in 2018, she worked at 3i in Germany. She started her career in M&A at Morgan Stanley and strategy consulting at McKinsey & Company in London and Frankfurt. Giovanna is a member of Invest Europe Mid-Market Platform Council.

John West Managing Editor M&A EMEA ION Analytics

Heading Mergermarket and Dealreporter editorial output across EMEA, leading a team of more than 50 reporters across both products.