Telecom and media leaders meet in Warsaw to assess Central and Eastern Europe expansion strategies

Aug. 10, 2015 - PRLog -- Pan-European telecom and media leaders, including James Ryan, Chief Strategy Officer, Liberty Global, and leaders from Telenor, Vimpelcom, Telekom Austria,Play and Vectra are meeting in Warsaw on September 29 to discuss the surge in regional investment and consolidation opportunities.

In-market consolidation and industry convergence is driving a wave of deals across European telecoms – and the Central and Eastern European region is expected to be especially active. Telecom privatisations, private equity exits and infrastructure spinoffs are also helping to drive strong deal activity in the TMT sector, underpinned by significant market liquidity and availability of capital for transactions.

Over 200 senior executives, including the leading investment bankers, private equity investors and advisers are meeting at the annual TMT Finance & Investment CEE event in Warsaw, to assess the latest opportunities for investors, operators and advisers.

The exclusive annual networking event features 15 sessions and 50 key speakers with session themes including: TMT Leadership Strategies; Mergers and Acquisitions; Raising Finance for TMT; Cable and Satellite; Investing in Adjacent Markets; Investing in Datacentres, Cloud and the Future of TMT.

Other key industry speakers announced include: Jorgen Bang-Jensen, CEO, PLAY;Roland Haidner, Head of M&A, Telekom Austria; Sergey Plykin, Group Strategy Director, VimpelCom; Tomasz Żurański, President & CEO, Vectra; Marcin Boroszko, CEO, Atmedia Group; Marek Szydlowski, General Counsel, TVN Group; Bernd Schmutterer, CFO, VIPnet; Tomasz Czechowicz, Managing Partner and CEO, MCI Management; and Marcin Hejka, VP, Managing Director, Intel Capital.

Finance and Advisory speakers announced include: Stanislaw Sawczyn, Managing Director, Rothschild; Alex Evans, Managing Director, Head of TMT EMEA, Barclays Capital; Tomas Kubica, Principle, Private Equity, KKR; Igor Ostrowski, Head of TMT Sector Group, Dentons: Managing Directors of Accenture; John Fitzpatrick, Global Head of TMT M&A/Transactional, CMS; Erik Arveschoug, Managing Director, Corporate Bank Head EMEA TMT, Citi; Bruno Pezy, Managing Director TMT Group, Credit Agricole; Piotr Noceń, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Resource Partners; Florian Glinz, Director, Head of TMT / Acquisition, Project & Structured Finance, Raiffeisen Bank International AG; Jonathan Nighswander, Director, EMSA Capital and Sanju Vaswani, Senior Investment Officer, TMT CIS, IFC.

TMT Finance & Investment Central and East Europe 2015 takes place at the Radisson Blu Centrum Hotel, Warsaw, on September 29. The conference brings together key industry executives and leaders from the global financial and advisory community. Speakers and delegates are CEOs, CFOs, CSOs and Heads of M&A, investment bankers, private equity investors, government representatives, regulators and specialist legal and strategic advisers and thought leaders.

For more information go to www.tmtfinance.com/cee

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