Gala dinner with Award ceremony “CFO of the Year ... - CFO Insight

Plenum 8 OCTOBER Großer Redoutensaal
Welcome Address from FINANCE Emerging Europe
SPEAKER
Panel Discussion II 9.30 a.m.-10.30 a.m.
Emerging Europe in Need – Where Will Growth Come from?
SPEAKERS
MODERATOR
SPEAKER
Steven Arons, Managing Editor, FINANCE Emerging Europe,
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
In 2006 Mr. Arons joined the German magazine FINANCE as
an Editor. Since 2008 he has been Managing Editor of
FINANCE Emerging Europe. The magazine covers the entire
range of CFO responsibilities and is intended for CFOs as well
as for other corporate finance and private equity executives
from Emerging Europe (EE) and abroad who are already
investing or seeking investments in EE.
Federico Ghizzoni, Head of Poland’s Markets Division,
UniCredit Group, Member of the Management Board for
CEE, UniCredit Bank Austria AG, Vienna, Austria
In July 2007 Mr. Ghizzoni was appointed Head of Poland's
Markets Division at UniCredit and Board Member responsible
for the CEE Banking Division at Bank Austria. Since April
2009 he has been Member of the UniCredit Group Executive
Management Committee. He is also Supervisory Board Member
in various companies of UniCredit Group/Bank Austria.
Jacek Siwicki, President, Enterprise Investors, Warsaw,
Poland
Mr. Siwicki is President of Enterprise Investors, one of the
largest firms managing private equity funds in Poland as well
as central and eastern Europe and has led about twenty
direct investments. He manages the firm’s operations in
Poland and Romania and is responsible for implementing its
strategy in the whole CEE region. In 1991 he served as
Poland’s Deputy Minister of Privatisation.
Steven Arons, FINANCE Emerging Europe
Leading the Way: Why CFOs Are Good CEOs
Piotr Jelenski, Chairman of the Executive Board, Asseco
South Eastern Europe SA, Financial Director, Asseco Group,
Warsaw, Poland
Mr. Jelenski has been Chairman of the Executive Board of
Asseco SEE since July 2007. Since December 2001 until June
2009, he was CFO of Asseco Poland managing financing,
restructuring and M&A activities. He joined CAIB Financial
Advisers Sp. z o.o. in 1996 and was responsible for project
management related to M&A.
Asseco Poland (ACP) is the largest IT company listed on the
Warsaw Stock Exchange. In April 2008 the process of merging
Asseco Poland and Prokom Software was completed.
As a result of the merger, Asseco Poland became one of the
ten largest IT companies in Europe in terms of capitalisation.
The group Asseco SEE is the largest operator in southeastern
Europe in terms of revenue derived from sales of its software
and services.
9.15 a.m.-9.30 a.m.
Heinrich Schaller, CEO, Wiener Börse AG, Vienna, Austria
Mr. Schaller is CEO of Wiener Börse AG. He joined Wiener
Börse as CEO in 2006. Prior to this, he was Member of the
Board of Raiffeisen Landesbank Oberösterreich. Before that,
he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Kepler-Fonds
KAG and Deputy CEO of Raiffeisen Landesbank Oberösterreich.
He started his career at Raiffeisen Zentralbank
in Vienna.
Adam Stanyer, CEO, GPEC Sp. z o.o., Managing Director
Polish Business Unit, SW Leipzig GmbH, Gdansk, Poland
Mr. Stanyer is a UK Chartered Accountant having worked for
KPMG in London and Berlin. He has extensive experience in
the European energy, retail and construction sectors gained
from the commercial and financial perspectives in large and
mid-cap companies. Mr. Stanyer is currently leading a
significant restructuring programme in a group of energy
companies based in Poland.
10.30 a.m.-11.00 a.m.
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