24
years

Years of Experience

2/15

Member Since

Experience

 
Gnostam Consulting Management Consulting
Management Consultant
01/2014 - Present
M&A Consultant, both deals and post merger integration.

Deals: Advisor to Valenciana de Cementos $1.25bn purchase by Cemex;
Leveraged buy-out [$80 m] Ferrembal by Continental Can;
Purchase of minority interest of Cleop by Tarmac Plc;
Purchase of minority interest of Natra, $30 m [advisor to Natra];
Spin-off of ENI group subsidiaries prior to listing, $1.5bn;
Hunt Brothers TX acquisition of KhantyMansysk Energia;
IBM East Europe & Asia Corporate Strategy & Development
Director EMEA Projects and Finance
06/1996 - 11/2000
Head of Strategic Finance
Managed all the direct investments for IBM in the former Soviet Union (FSU) region. Structured “non recourse” project completion and recourse methods to collateralize finance and business risk of natural resource companies, clients of IBM. Clients included banks, oil and gas clients, as well as most of the large quoted industrial groups in FSU. Drafted loan agreements, managed expropriation risk, selected choice of jurisdiction to mitigate cross border risk.
Morgan Grenfell & Co. Ltd Finance
Executive Director
07/1986 - 09/1987
Worked on capital raising for Keppel Shipyards, Singapore, and Channel Tunnel. Promoted in record time to Executive Director.
Price Waterhouse Coopers Management Consulting
Management Consultant
04/1979 - 08/1986
Restructuring of ENI Energy Group, a 4 year project