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Patrick Beaudan, Co-Founder, Equity Capital Networks
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Prior to founding Equity Capital Network, Mr. Beaudan spent three
years with Lehman Brothers where he rose to Head of European
Strategy and Business, reporting to the firm's European Executive
Committee and Chief Financial Officer in New York on the firm's
growth strategy in Europe. Mr. Beaudan joined Lehman Brothers from
McKinsey and Company where he served clients in financial,
pharmaceutical, and medical device industry. He holds a a Ph.D.
from Stanford University in mechanical engineering, a Master and
Bachelor degree, summa cum laude, in aerospace engineering from
the State University of New York. He is the author of several
scientific publications, and recipient of several awards for
academic achievement.
Jeff Bell, Country Manager Spain, Ford
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Jeff Bell has been the managing director of Ford Spain and the
director of Ford Iberia since January 1999. He joined For Motor
Company in July 1989 and has served in various functions including
New Business Development, Marketing, and Sales. In 1997 he was
appointed as Director of Central European operations where he was
involved in the start up of four regional companies generating
$750 million in revenues in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and
Greece. In his current role, he oversees Government, public and
labor relations, e-commerce initiatives, new business development,
and the merger and acquisition of dealerships. Mr Bell has an MBA
in from the Wharton School (1989) as well as a MA in International
Economics with honors from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies (1987). He also has a BA in History and
Spanish from Kenyon College (1984)
Jorge Calvet -Managing
Director, Head of investment Banking for Iberian Peninsula, UBS
Warbug
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Jorge Calvet is the Chairman of the Board and Managing
Director of UBS Spain S.A. (Private Banking) and has been a managing
director within the organization since 1995. He is also a board
member of Antena 3 TV. Prior to that he was an Executive Director
with Morgan Stanley and SBC (Warbug Dillon Reed), and has worked
with Banco Bilbao and Bankers Trust New York. During his career he
has been responsible for investment banking covering Spain and
Portugal. His main areas of activity are, Corporate Finance,
M&A, Acquisition Financing, IPO Advisory, sale of minority
holdings of strategic shares, placement of shares, balance sheet
restructuring. He holds an MBA from the Stern School of Management
at NYU and degrees in law and business from ICADE (Madrid, Spain).
Marissa Drew, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch
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Marisa is a Managing Director responsible for Merrill Lynch's
European Media and Telecom Leveraged Finance Group. Marisa has
worked on Wall Street for over 14 years and has been in Merrill
Lynch's High Yield Group since 1992, focusing on a variety of
industries but with a media and telecoms speciality. In late 1996,
Marisa began to focus exclusively on European media and telecoms
issuers and was instrumental in the formation of Merrill Lynch's
Leveraged finance group. Marisa has been responsible for all ML
media and telecoms deals executed out of Europe thus far, with
names including HMV Media, UPC, @entertainment, Polska Telefonica
Cyfrowa, Netia, ONO and Grapes as well as Callahan Germany. Prior
to joining Merrill Lynch, Marisa worked with a private equity
firm, the Trump Group, and the investment banking firm Kidder
Peabody. She received a BA in Finance and Marketing with
distinction from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of
Commerce and an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School. In
her free time, Marisa heads up the Wharton recruiting team for
Europe and is on the steering committee for Women in Investment
Banking. Marisa enjoys sailing, California wines, restaurant
hopping and golf.
Nigel Drummond, CEO, Internet Incubator
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Nigel has over ten years' experience in high technology business
strategy, acquisitions and operations. He brings a broad global
perspective to Internet Incubator, as well as significant
operational experience in building internet businesses and
nurturing them through to flotation. Nigel is the former president
of AIM-listed Virtual Internet, where he drove the firm's
expansion strategy across Europe through start-up offices and
acquisitions. He spent seven years in the US, most recently with
Bain & Company's leveraged buyout and acquisitions group in
San Francisco where he specialised in technology businesses. Nigel
has over seven years high-tech consulting experience with several
firms including the Boston Consulting Group and was until recently
also Chairman of AIM-listed Chandra plc, which focuses on internet
music and media content. He has also spent time working in
Holland, Belgium and Japan. Nigel holds an MBA with distinction
from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is
an honours graduate of Cambridge University.
Bernhard Eiwan, Country Manager
(CEO), CA IB Securities a.s. in Prague
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Mr. Eiwan has been living in Prague since late 1992. After
he graduated from the Munich University in 1986 with a degree in
business administration, law and accounting, he began his
professional career with a leading private bank in Munich. He later
moved to Frankfurt to join the risk-management team of BHF-Bank, a
German-based merchant bank. On behalf of the shareholders of BHF at
the time, FFM, Mr. Eiwan transferred to the Czech Republic to head
the treasury and capital market department of the recently
privatized Živnostenská banka. After having established the
trading operations and risk-management capabilities of Živnostenská
banka, he joined IB Austria Securities Praha, a.s. as a member of
the Management Board in order to develop and lead its capital market
activities. During the merger of Investmentbank Austria and
Creditanstalt Investmentbank in Vienna, Mr. Eiwan was put in charge
of the merger of the two institutions in the Czech Republic and he
simultaneously took the position of the Head of the newly-formed
local investment banking unit of the Bank Austria Group in Prague.
Terrence J. English, President
& CEO, Sovlink
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Prior to co-founding Sovlink, Mr. English was a Managing
Director at Philipp Brothers, the commodity trading arm of Salomon
Inc.. In this capacity, he traded with and developed several
joint-ventures and "buy-back" transactions in the Soviet
Union, Eastern Europe and China. Prior to joining Philipp Brothers,
Mr. English was a senior trader at Continental Grain Co. He has been
doing business in the NIS since 1979.In 1995, on behalf of
management, Mr. English negotiated the buy-out of Sovlink from its
founding shareholders. Mr. English serves on the Boards and
Investment Committees of the First NIS Regional Fund, and Intertash,
a service company in Uzbekistan. Mr. English, a US national, has a
B.A. from the University of Portland and an M.B.A. in finance from
the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Larry
Furlong, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
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Larry Furlong is a Vice President in the Financial
Institutions Group in London, providing financing, merger and other
advisory services to European financial institutions. He spent
several years in the Financial Institutions Group in New York before
moving to the London office in 1999. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs,
he was a commercial banker in the southern US. Larry is a graduate
of the Wharton MBA program.
John
J. Gallagher, Esquire, Law Offices of John J. Gallagher, P.C.
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For more than 24 years, John J. Gallagher has served the
community in his professional capacity as an attorney at law. Mr.
Gallagher's practice includes national and international legal
services in Corporate Law and Acquisitions; Commercial Law;
International Contracts; and Products Liability. Currently John J.
Gallagher is the head of the Law Offices of John J. Gallagher, P.C.,
established in 1980, a dynamic, fast growing professional
corporation, which currently employs five attorneys. The firm's
areas of practice include international and domestic Business,
Corporate, Commercial Transactions and Litigation, International
Contracts and Acquisitions, Business Immigration, Public Utilities,
Class Action Litigation. The firm specializes in international
investments involving Eastern European, in particular Russian and
Moldavian private and governmental entities. The Law Offices of John
J. Gallagher facilitates international investments in emerging and
developing economies by utilizing the firm's extensive network of
local experts and insider contacts in Eastern European countries.
Furthermore, the firm has established practice in various areas of
litigation including international and domestic industrial and
commercial litigation, class action, product liability, private and
corporate matters. Mr. Gallagher is a member of the Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations, the Pennsylvania Trial
Lawyers Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
He has a bachelor's degree from LaSalle College and a J.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania.
Antoine
Gourevitch, Manager, Boston Consulting
Group
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Antoine Gourévitch, manager, Paris, received his MBA from
INSEAD. He earned a master's degree in engineering from Ecole
Centrale de Paris in 1991. At The Boston Consulting Group, he has
focused on assignments in industrial goods, consumer goods and
retail, health care, financial services, and high technology.
Antoine has specialized in e-business projects in the last three
years, working on strategy and implementation cases. He has just
completed an e-business project for an automotive OEM involving a
client team of 100 people. Before joining BCG in 1995, Antoine
worked for three years for Bossard, where he specialized in network
management in sectors such as automotive, oil distribution, and
banking. After graduating from Ecole Centrale, he joined the Prime
Minister services for one year to study nuclear proliferation in the
Middle East and in Eastern Europe. In his free time, Antoine enjoys
swimming on desert shores and playing with his sons, Benjamin (3)
and Alexis (1).
Iain Johnston, Head of Telecom Equity Research, J.P. Morgan
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Iain Johnston (Managing Director) is Head of the European
Telecommunications Team and joined J.P. Morgan in 1993. Iain has
been working as a research analyst for 17yrs covering
telecommunication Companies in the Uk, Continental Europe, Japan,
South East Asia and Australasia. Iain has worked on a large number
of equity offerings totalling over US$ 100 billion. In the most
recent extel survey he was voted the number 2 analyst in
Telecommunication Services in the UK and Continental Europe. The
European Telecoms Team was ranked fourth by Finance Directors in the
2000 Reuters Survey, and Iain ranked 3rd in the analyst survey. Iain
obtained an MA from Cambridge University in 1983.
Jörg Krings, Principal, Booz.Allen
Hamilton
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Jörg Krings is a Principal with Booz.Allen Hamilton in
Munich. He is a member of the corporate finance group and the
Automotive, Aerospace and Industrials Practice. His principle areas
of interest relate to strategy development, corporate transactions
and the required organizational integration and transformation
following most mergers & acquisitions. Prior to joining
Booz.Allen, Mr. Krings worked for a number of multinational
companies including Siemens, The First National Bank of Boston, Sun
Microsystems and Mercedes Benz. Mr. Krings holds a degree in
computer science (M.Sc.) from the European Business School and a
degree in business administration (Dipl-Kfm.).
Fritz Kroeger, Partner, A.T. Kearney
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Dr. Fritz Kroger has been working with A.T. Kearney in Europe,
North America, and Asia since 1976 where he has led 350 projects
in strategy, organization, and mergers and acquisitions mainly in
Europe and North America. The projects included start up, growth,
market entry, consolidation, turn-around strategies; as well as
M&A's, post merger integration, restructuring, and
organizational design. Since 1995, Dr. Kroger has taken the helm
of the European Leader of the Strategy and Restructuing Practice
at A.T. Kearney. Fritz Kröger is member of various supervisory
boards and author of several books on strategy, restructuring,
mergers and growth in different languages. Prior to A.T. Kearnedy,
Dr. Kroger worked for Commerzbank AG, Hamburg as well as
Hamburgische Landesbank. He holds an MBA from the University of
Mannheim and a doctoral degree in business administration from the
University of Saarbrücken.
Richard Pape, President and COO, Plasmanet Telecommunications
Division
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Richard Pape was appointed as President and COO, the
Telecommunications Division of PlasmaNet, Inc. September 2000. Mr.
Pape was elected as a director of PlasmaNet, Inc. in February
1999. PlasmaNet, Inc. is an Internet marketing company with a leading website,
Freelotto.com. From January 1996 to September
2000, Mr. Pape was President of Tele Danmark USA, Inc., the U.S.
representative of Tele Danmark
A/S, a Danish telecommunications
provider. Prior to that, from September1991 to December 1995, Mr.
Pape was the Chief Financial Controller and Head of Budget
Department of Telecom A/S, a subsidiary of Tele Danmark A/S. Mr.
Pape received his Master of Economics from Copenhagen University,
Copenhagen Denmark in 1994. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Pape
participated in the INSEAD-Tele Danmark Leadership MBA program.
Aymerik Renard, Managing Director, Innovacom (France Telecom)
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Aymerik Renard joined Inovacom, the venture capital subsidiary of
France Telecom, in 1996 to launch its direct investment program in
the US. Since opening Innovacom's office in Silicon Valley, Mr.
Renard has invested in over twenty companies, including Four 11
Corporation, Tumbleweed Communications, Intershop Communications,
Communications, effusion, Cobalt Networks, Epicentric, Sandpiper
Networks, BidCom, Preview Systems, and Valicert, among others.
Before joining Innovacom, Mr. Renard was Business Development
Manager for Internet and Online Services at France Telecom North
America, where he conducted technological, market, and strategic
analyses as well as partnership and joint venture negotiations, in
close collaboration with France Telecom's Internet-oriented
operational units. Mr. Renard has a Bachelor of Science Degree
from Carnegie Mellon University Information and Decision Systems
as well as Policy Management.
Timothy Seymour - Troika
Dialog, New York Office
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Timothy Seymour is Head of Troika Dialog's New York
Office. He is an experienced participant in securities markets with
particular expertise in fixed income and derivative products. During
a career that has included positions with UBS, Morgan Stanley and
Warburg, Mr. Seymour has traded and sold the debt of emerging
markets as well as G-15 sovereigns and corporates in cash, futures,
and derivatives. Prior to a career in finance, Mr. Seymour was a
restaraunteer in New York and San Francisco. He holds an MBA in
International Finance from Fordham University, and a BSBA in
Marketing and Theology from Georgetown University.
Sergey S. Skaterschikov, Founder and CEO, WorldBroker Inc.
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Sergey S. Skaterschikov, 28, is the founder and CEO of WorldBroker
Inc, a NY based global online investing company. Sergey is also a
non-executive board member of red-stars.com Data AG (Vienna based
Internet services company) and Remedicus Inc (diversified Internet
company in healthcare and parenting sector in Emerging Europe).
Sergey is a former executive board member of Vienna based
caibon.com, the online brokerage subsidiary of the CA IB, an
investment bank of Bank Austria Creditanstalt Group. Prior to
joining caibon.com Group, he served as CEO for E*TRADE Eurasia LLC,
a licensed entity of E*TRADE Group representing Turkey, Russia and
CIS. The company was purchased in full by E*TRADE Group in May
1999. Sergey has also built two successful start-up businesses -
Skate Inc. (www.skatefn.com), financial content provider for
European emerging markets (sold to red-stars.com Data AG and
Independent Media in May 2000) and Netskate Inc., a media
corporation on the Russian language Internet (sold to Media MOST
in the fourth quarter of 1999). Sergey is a graduate of Moscow
State University (American Studies).
Sunil Shah, Founder, GoSurprise.com
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Sunil Shah is the CEO and co-founder of gosurprise, a UK internet
company that is building a technology, brand and operations
platform on which numerous person-to-person and company-to-person
"relationship" sites are being developed. Sunil grew up
in and around the Cambridge area in the UK and received a Masters
in Business Administration from the Judge Institute at Cambridge
University. Prior to getting his MBA, Sunil worked as a consultant
for PA Consulting in their Global Technology Group advising
leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in Europe and
the United States. In his free time, Sunil enjoys golf, skiing and
'downhill' mountain biking.
Jonathan Sparey, Partner, LEK Consulting
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Before joining L.E.K in 1995, Jonathan was a Director of the
merchant bank Samuel Montagu & Co. He has an MA in Modern and
Mediaeval History from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and
an MBA from the City University Business School, London. He is
also a Non Executive Director of Churchill China plc. Jonathan is
based in L.E.K's London office.
John Temple, Senior Partner, Deloitte Consulting
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John E. Temple is a Senior Partner at Deloitte Consulting
with over 28 years of consulting and management experience. John has
worked extensively in Europe and the United States and his industry
expertise covers such areas as telecommunications, high tech
manufacturing, consumer products, and publishing. In addition,
John's functional expertise includes management information systems,
financial and cost analysis, and technical market analysis. From
1997-1999, John was a Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting in
Benelux. John graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a
Master of Science in Industrial Administration in 1971. He also
holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Union College where
he has acted as a Trustee.
Jerome Ternynck, CEO, Mr Ted
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A 32 year old French national, Jerome has been an entrepreneur
ever since he graduated from University in 1990. His first
company, The People Difference Group, created in Prague in 1992,
is a diversified recruitment business that currently employs 80
people across Central & Eastern Europe. In January 2000,
Jerome co-founded MrTed, a Recruitment Technology vendor that
delivers web-based Candidate Supply Chain Management systems to
Fortune 500 companies. After 10 months, MrTed employs 90 people
and has operations in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain,
Italy, Belgium and the Nordics. MrTed went live in September with
an ASP delivered solution and has since started to sign in
customers across Europe. The company has received investments from
private and strategic investors including Andersen Consulting.
MrTed plans to become the leading global provider of Enterprise
recruitment systems with operations deployed in USA, Asia Pacific
and Europe by Q1 2001.
Stan Tsyrlin, Boston Consulting Group
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Mr. Tsyrlin currently works as a Manager in the Moscow
office of The Boston Consulting Group. He managed key projects for
Russian and international clients in the areas of telecom,
E-Commerce and Internet opportunities, financial services, consumer
goods, pharmaceuticals and energy. Among his recent project
accomplishments are the development of a business plan for a
content-related Internet venture for a leading Russian telecom
operator; the development of a general strategy for a large
international telecom player in Russia, including the design of an
ISP strategy, of an approach to local acquisitions and to client
support during major transactions; and analysis and forecast of
growth drivers in the Russian E-commerce B2C environment.Mr. Tsyrlin
holds MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a
Diploma in Applied Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and
Technology (FISTECH). Prior to joining BCG, Mr. Tsyrlin worked for
Sterling Health as a marketing manager of the Russian operation. In
1992-93 Mr. Tsyrlin worked as a consultant for Cannon Associates.
Dan Wilson, Director of European Emerging Markets, Salomon
Smith Barney
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Mr. Wilson is Director of European Emerging markets at
Salomon Smith Barney in New York. His group covers Russia, Central
Europe, Greece, Turkey, Israel, and Africa. Before coming to Salomon
Smith Barney, Mr. Wilson was Managing Director at Creditanstalt
Investment Bank A.G. where he held numerous positions over a 5-year
tenure, including Group Head of Equities for Central Europe and
Russia, Head of Creditanstalt's Moscow office during the 1998/99,
and regional Research Director. Prior to this, Mr. Wilson was a
commercial loan officer at Bank South in Atlanta for 5 years (bought
by Bank of America). In Between 1993 and 1995 he served in Budapest,
Hungary, in the US Peace Corps' Emerging Europe business program,
advising on bank privatization, as well as SME development. He is a
graduate of the University of Georgia (BBA - '87), and Georgia State
University (MS Finance '92). Additionally Mr. Wilson holds the
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