Dan Bucșa Chief CEE Economist UniCredit Bank AG Dan Bucșa is Chief CEE Economist at UniCredit Bank AG in London. He joined the bank in September 2012, transferring from UniCredit Bank Romania where he was the chief economist. Before joining the private sector, Dan taught at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies and worked in the Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting Department of the National Bank of Romania, where he was involved in developing the forecasting framework used in inflation targeting. Dan holds a PhD in Macroeconomics and an MSc in Finance from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Milly Chow President, TMA Global Partner, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP Milly has extensive expertise in complex and multi-jurisdictional financial restructurings, distressed mergers and acquisitions and debtorin-possession (DIP) financings involving restructuring matters across Canada and abroad. For more than 20 years, Milly has been providing advice to debtors, purchasers, lender syndicates, secured creditors, monitors, receivers, trustees and other stakeholders in a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, mining, retail, manufacturing, forestry, airline, automotive, environmental, telecommunications, media, marketing, financial services, information technology and biomedical. Chanda DeLong Senior Counsel International Monetary Fund Ms Chanda DeLong is an attorney in the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund, where she advises member countries and staff on the law and policies of the IMF. Her particular areas of focus include sovereign debt restructuring, corporate and household insolvency, and the IMF's lending policies. Prior to work at the IMF, Ms. DeLong worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She has a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A. in Russian Literature from Princeton University.
Dr Lukas Fecker VP International, TMA Global Founder & CEO, Innovation Brain Dr Lukas Fecker specialises in Turnaround Management for global Financial Services and commodities clients with an emphasis on Restructuring and M&A. He has held several CRO, CEO and board positions in restructuring situations; responsible for strategy, delivery and investor reporting. His advisory career has spanned Accenture, Alvarez & Marsal and KPMG as a Partner in their UK Transactions and Restructuring practice, before leaving to start his own firm. Among his achievements is the appointment by the an Commission to monitor the restructuring of the largest bank in a member country. Lukas is a published author with a strong standing in the Restructuring and Recovery industry and is currently the Vice President International Relations, TMA Global. Florian Klimscha Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Florian Klimscha specialises in banking law, debt financing transactions and corporate restructurings. He advises lenders and borrowers with respect to all types of financing transactions. Florian also has a strong knowledge and track-record in corporate restructuring as well as the sale and purchase of NPLs. His regulatory background and deep knowledge of banking operations add significant value for clients in transactions. Valentin Lazea Chief Economist, National Bank of Romania Valentin Lazea is Chief Economist at the National Bank of Romania, advising the Governor on macroeconomic issues. His working experience includes teaching at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, as well as seminars throughout the country within the program Open Gates Day sponsored by the National Bank. He has been an active promoter of (and contributor to) the youth-oriented quarterly magazine Financial Education for Everyone s Understanding. He did post-graduate studies at Sussex University, as well as banking studies in Milan and macroeconomic studies at the IMF Institute, Washington D.C. For twelve years he was the President of the Board of the Romanian Center for Economic Policy (CEROPE), an NGO focused on spreading economic thinking in all strata of the society. One of his goals is to promote general education (and, within it, financial education) as a means of increasing potential GDP.
Roxana Manole CEO, Polisano Pharmaceuticals Roxana Manole has more than 18 years of experience in pharmaceutical field. She has worked in sales, marketing and as General Manager, coordinating complex teams and business models in leading pharmaceutical companies in Romania. She is also an excellent public affairs expert with a large expertise of healthcare system and legislation. Adrian Minuta CEO, Bravo Europa Adrian is the CEO of Bravo Europa, an Austrian-based group of companies with presence in 16 an countries. The group has been founded by a Adrian Minuta together with a Belgian family in 2001 and was sold to an Austrian-based investment fund administrated by EMSA Capital in 2013. The group operates 2 factories in Romania and Czech, 4 logistic platforms in Romania, Czech and Germany and 5 sales offices in Romania, Bulgaria, Czech, Austria, Germany and employs over 240 people in 5 countries. Bravo Europa is specialized in production and distribution of metal roofing and cladding products. The group generated in 2017 a consolidated turnover of 40 mil euro. Before starting Bravo Europa business, Adrian was the CEO of Den Braven Romania and Bulgaria being the youngest manager in the Den Braven group, 24 years old when appointed. Adrian graduated ASE Bucharest and is currently involved into an MBA program performed by Sheffield University. Claudiu Negrisan Group CFO, ABBC Group BV Claudiu currently serves as Group CFO for ABBC Group BV, a Netherlands-based group of companies with a global presence, founded by a Romanian entrepreneurial family and holding various businesses interests in the energy and metallurgical industries. Starting with 2003, Claudiu has been involved in numerous investment and restructuring advisory projects, as well as turnaround management roles, for various companies across a broad range of industries. Cumulatively, he has participated in restructuring of companies with over 500 million EUR of liabilities and has gained a sound expertise in business turnaround and investment advisory. An MBA graduate, he is also founder and board member of TMA Romania, member of Romanian Business Leaders and a Certified Investment Advisor.
Catalin Nichifor President TMA Romania Managing Partner, Nichifor Consulting; Managing Director CEE, BM&T Catalin has over 15 years experience in finance and restructuring in international business with an emphasis on Eastern. His sector experience is in automotive supply, real estate, oil and gas, energy and the business to business sector. He has worked in energy and energy efficiency industries in the Netherlands and Romania, actually holding a NED position with one of the biggest energy producers in Romania. He has been CFO of a large an subsidiary of a US automotive Tier 1 supplier. He has a focus on NPL portfolio workout and divestment in CEE countries and value generation in distressed and underperforming businesses. He is a graduate in finance from the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, The President of TMA Romania and is fluent in Romanian and English. Marius Puiu Board Member, Blue Air Marius Mihail Puiu is one of the four owners of Airline Management Solutions, mother company of Blue Air and the biggest Romanian airline. A company that carried over 5.06 million passengers in 2017-70% more than in 2016. He started as flight engineer at TAROM, the national Romanian airline company, and for a short period was dispatched to Romavia SA for flight training and flight missions outside of Romania and in war zones (the Gulf, Iran and Saudi Arabia). He is also director of several Romanian companies in the agribusiness and logistic sectors. Matthew Quade Managing Director, BM&T an Restructuring Solutions Matthew has 17 years of turnaround and restructuring experience working for a wide range of stakeholders across a variety of industries during a career which has taken him from a Big 4 accountancy firm to a major international bank, a global consultancy practice and to building his own successful business before joining BM&T.
Andrei Rădulescu Senior Economist Banca Transilvania Andrei Rădulescu is the lead macroeconomist and forecaster at Banca Transilvania and a constant speaker at high level global & an scientific events, with presentations on macro-financial topics. Mr Rădulescu is also a Scientific Researcher at the Institute for World Economy, within the Romanian Academy, being responsible for the macrofinancial analysis of the global economy, an economy and of the international financial markets. In 2012 he published The Great Recession: from the global economy to the national economy. Valentin Voinescu Partner, NNDKP Valentin Voinescu s broad experience includes acting as lead Romanian counsel on a diverse range of projects, including finance transactions (with a total value exceeding 5 billion EUR in the past 5 years), restructuring and insolvency matters, as well as milestone regulatory projects implemented by various financial institutions in the market. His practice focuses on: acquisition finance, bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans, project finance and real estate finance, debt restructuring, workout, insolvency and enforcement strategies, banking and finance regulatory matters.