Co-Chairs
Garret Byrne
Partner – M&A Transaction Services
Leader
Deloitte Central Europe (Prague)
Bela Seres
Partner
Deloitte (Hungary)
Faculty Members
Hannes Ambacher
Head of Institutional Banking & Private Equity, Bank Gutmann
Aktiengesellschaft (Vienna)
David Atterbury
Principal
HarbourVest (London)
Andrzej Bartos
Managing Partner
Innova Capital (Warsaw)
Thierry Baudon
Managing Partner
Mid Europa Partners (London)
Erik Berglof
Chief Economist
EBRD (London)
Jean-Philippe Burcklen
Head, Equity Fund Investments
European Investment Fund (Luxembourg)
Garret Byrne
Partner – M&A Transaction Services Leader
Deloitte Central Europe (Prague)
Michael Camacho
Investment Manager
AlpInvest Partners (Amsterdam)
Richard Clegg
Partner
Wolf Theiss (Sofia)
Hein Van Dam
Partner, Financial Services
Deloitte Central Europe
Roxana Damaschin-Tecu
NESsT Enterprise Development Director Europe
Armando D’Amico
Managing Partner
ACANTHUS ADVISERS (London)
Jan Dewijngaert
Director, Buyouts & Growth Central Europe and Russia
Gimv (Antwerp)
Pavel Erochkine
Deputy CEO
RUSNANO Capital
Anne Fossemalle
Director
Equity Funds EBRD (London)
Sean Glodek
Director
Darby Private Equity (Warsaw)
Tomasz Hatylak
Senior Associate
Squire Sanders Święcicki Krześniak sp. k.
Aron Jakab
CEO
Fruit of Care
Václav Jirk
Investment Director
Penta Investments (Prague)
Dr. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz
Managing Partner
GESSEL Attorneys at Law (Warsaw)
Yalin Karadogan
Principal
Cinven (London)
Georgy Kolpachev
Managing Director
Rusnano (Moscow)
Arnaud Lipkowicz
Partner
Customized Fund Investment Group, CREDIT SUISSE (London)
Robert Manz
Managing Partner
Enterprise Investors (Warsaw)
Pierre Mellinger
CEO, PineBridge Investments
Central Europe (Warsaw)
Cem Meric
Principal
LGT Capital Partners (Zurich)
Sunil Nair
Senior Managing Director and Head of Europe, Middle East, Africa and India
Citi Venture Capital International (London)
Hans Christian Dall Nygard
Head of CapMan Russia, Senior Partner
CapMan Private Equity (Moscow)
Patrick O’Brian
Managing Partner
ADM (London)
Scott Penwell
Director
Parish Capital (London)
Ulf Persson
Managing Partner
Mint Capital (Moscow)
Roger Pim
Partner
SL Capital Partners (Edinburgh)
Parham Pouladdej
Managing Director
EMSA Capital (Vienna)
Claire Scott-Priestley
Partner
Squire Sanders (London)
Witold Radwanski
Managing Director
Krokus (Warsaw)
Christopher Rose
Partner
Squire Sanders (Moscow)
Michael Russell
Partner and Head of EMEA
Altius Associates (London)
Richard Seewald
Partner
Alpha Associates (Zurich)
Bela Seres
Partner
Deloitte (Hungary)
Joseph Schull
Warburg Pincus (London) & NESsT Board of Directors
Thomas Spring
Founding Partner
Syntaxis Capital (Vienna)
Paul Temperton
Managing Director
Tier and Co (London)
Albena Vassileva
Director
Advent International (Prague)
Brian Wardrop
Managing Partner
ARX Equity Partners (Prague)
Bill Watson
Chief Investment Officer, Eastern Europe
Amundi Private Equity Funds (Paris)
Thomas Wilfling
Director
AXA Private Equity (Vienna)
Nigel Williams
Managing Partner
Royalton Partners (Zurich)
Marco Wulff
Partner
Montana Capital Partners (Baar)