TMT Finance and Investment Asia
Axiata Group Chief Financial Officer Dato’ Yusof Annuar Yaacob will make a keynote speech at the conference on November 5 highlighting strategy for growth and acquisitions. He will also join the Telecom Leadership Round Table to debate opportunities for expansion and partnership. Other panelists for this opening session include Sanjay Baweja, CFO, Tata Communications;
“Axiata has been actively looking at acquisitions of telecom operators in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Cambodia this year and it will be fascinating to learn what opportunities they expect to pursue in 2010,” said Dominic Lowndes, Director, TMT Group at BroadGroup and Editor of Telecom Deal Alert. “With so many leading telecom operators speaking at the conference, as well as investment banking and legal advisers, there is a great opportunity for attendees to find out how consolidation will shape the Asian telecom landscape.”
Axiata is focused on expanding in high growth low penetration emerging markets and aims to be a regional champion by 2015. Its existing mobile subsidiaries and associates operate under the brand name ‘Celcom’ in Malaysia, ‘XL’ in Indonesia, ‘Dialog’ in Sri Lanka, ‘AKTEL’ in Bangladesh, ‘HELLO’ in Cambodia , ‘Idea’ in India, ‘M1’ in Singapore and ‘MTCE’ in Iran (Esfahan).
TMT Finance and Investment Asia takes place at the Grand Hyatt Singapore, November 5-6, 2009, bringing together telecom, media and technology executives, investment bankers and advisers from across the world to debate M&A opportunities and growth strategies for the telecom sector.
TMT Finance and Investment Asia 2009 is organised by the TMT Group of BroadGroup. Axiata Group, Tata Communications and Clifford Chance LLP are Gold Sponsors, Booz&Co is Conference Partner, and KPMG is hosting the National Broadband Network session.
Official Media partners for the event include Telecom Deal Alert, Telecom Asia, Wireless Asia, IT One, Emerging Markets Monitor, Telecommunications Insight and Budde & Co.
Advance Ticket Discounts are open until 16th October with 3 for 2 offers. Register Now and Save! www.tmtfinance.com/
