Rossen Ivanov is a managing partner at Entrea Capital, an independent M&A and corporate finance advisory firm in Bulgaria. Entrea Capital is exclusive representative for Bulgaria of M&A International, the world’s leading M&A alliance.
Prior to establishing Entrea Capital, Rossen Ivanov worked at McKinsey & Co. in New Jersey/New York, where he focused on consumer goods, industrial and private equity clients. Prior to McKinsey, he worked as an investment associate at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, based in London, where he was responsible for structuring debt and equity investments across Eastern Europe. Rossen started his career at Procter & Gamble Balkan Markets in Bucharest, where he was responsible for evaluating new product launches across South-East Europe for P&G’s largest product category. He holds an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from the American University in Bulgaria.

Valeri Petrov is Partner at Bancroft Private Equity covering the company’s activities on the Balkans. Before joining Bancroft he was Investment Director with the private equity firm Global Finance, running the company’s activities in Bulgaria. Valeri led and co-led many transactions in different countries across the SEE region.
Prior to moving to the Private Equity industry Valeri was running the biggest paints& coatings company in Bulgaria (backed by private equity funds) as CEO where he did a complete turnaround bringing the company up to high profit levels and increasing its market capitalization almost ten times.
Valeri also worked for the Royal Dutch/Shell, and held various positions within the organisation.
Valeri holds an MSc in Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia. He also attended Management Academy in London and ETP on Business Management in Delaware University, Sofia branch.

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Dr. Monika Fuernsinn is Executive Director and Member of the Management Board in Raiffeisenbank (Bulgaria) EAD and also Chief Risk Officer responsible for risk management, workout, risk methodology, corporate financial analyses, collateral management.
Ms. Fuernsinn came to Raiffeisenbank from Investkredit AG, Vienna. She has more than 20 years of banking experience in the areas of crediting and risk management. She has worked at Volksbank AG and its subsidiary Investkredit AG, Bulgarian Unicredit Bulbank AD, where she was a Management Board member, and at Bank Austria/Unicredit.
She holds a PhD in legal science from the University of Vienna.

Since 2006, Ivailo Gospodinov is Managing Director in Raiffeisen Investment Bulgaria. Presently, he is occupied with M&A consulting. Ivailo has worked on numerous transactions in Bulgaria as large international companies’advisor. He has respective experience in the energy, telecommunications, heavy industry, mining industry, primary industry, retail, waste management and other sectors.
Before joining Raiffeisen Investment Bulgaria, Ivailo has been working for Forem Consulting as Corporate Finance Director from 2005. There, he was responsible for the M&A counseling, corporate assessments and business plans making.
Previously, he was working as Audit Manager in Ernst & Young and Andersen. In Andersen, Ivailo has been part of various Bulgarian companies’ audits. He has significant experience in the preparation of different financial analyses and due diligences, as well as in the media and telecommunications, energy and heavy industry. Moreover, Ivailo has participated in several privatisation deals when working for international investors.
His promising career started in 1995 in Ernst & Young as Junior Analyst. As part of the Ernst & Young team, he has been involved in the Bulgarian bank sector privatization.
Ivailo has acquired Business Administration Bachelor Degree from Portsmouth University. He has successfully finished ACCA (2005). He completed diverse М&А, company assessments, financial modeling trainings.

Mr. Veltchev is Managing Director of VTB Capital.
He brings 7 years of international investment banking and corporate finance experience and 8 years of public service and government administration experience. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Veltchev served as the Finance Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria. In 2002 he received the Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year award. He also served as Governor of the World Bank, Governor of EBRD, and as a Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank Consolidation Company. Prior to that, Mr. Veltchev also held the position of Vice President at Merrill Lynch's emerging markets sovereign debt team in London. Mr. Veltchev holds degrees from University of National and World Economy (MA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MBA).

Gergana has been with KPMG since 1994 and in October 1997 became the first Bulgarian Partner. She was in charge of the Advisory practice providing a diversified portfolio of services and became Managing Partner of KPMG in Bulgaria in October 2000.
With the establishment of KPMG in the Balkans in 2006, Gergana was appointed Managing Partner of KPMG in the Balkans. 
Gergana leads the Transactions & Restructuring practice in KPMG in Bulgaria and KPMG in the Balkans, offering Financing, M&A, Valuation, Transaction Services, and Restructuring. She is also the Partner responsible for the Public Sector Advisory services. 
Gergana is a member of the KPMG CEE Partnership Board. She served as Chairperson of the Management Board of the Bulgarian Association of Management Consulting Organizations for six years and currently is a member of the Board.
Gergana graduated at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) in Sofia and also holds a Master in Business Administration degree from the joint program of the University of Bristol, UK, and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France.

Philippe has in total 13 years of international experience in companies at managerial positions. His first international experience lies with the field of financial audits, strategic consulting and corporate finance for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in France (2 years), Romania (2 years), Serbia (1 year) Russia (1 month) and Bulgaria. Since 2004, as one of the co-founder of CallPoint, a leader in the BPO multilingual Services, Philippe started his entrepreneurial career. He holds a master in Business Administration from the Sofia Economy University, he has a diploma for chartered accountant in UK (ACCA) and has done a one year specialization in a private college in Paris ESCE with focus on international business affairs. Philippe speaks fluently French, English, German, Bulgarian and at conversational level Russian and Romanian.
His key role in the CallPoint project is to extend and grow the business to a 50 Mio. corporation through both organic and external growth.






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Ilian Skarlatov has been CEO of KBC Securities Bulgaria since July 2008.
He graduated from London University, Thames Valley University, majoring in Business Administration and the Athens University of Economics, majoring in information systems supporting decision making.
He has worked as an analyst at a Greek investment firm, as a Capital Markets Director at the Bulgarian investment intermediary Sofia International Securities.
Mr. Skarlatov was also a member of the board of Capital Management and Asset Management Sofia.






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Dimitar Kostadinov is a Managing Partner at Entrea Capital. Dimitar joined the firm in 2008 and has been instrumental for its development as the leading independent investment banking service provider in Bulgaria. He successfully executed multiple fundraising, debt restructuring and M&A transactions with a focus on the FMCG and industrials sectors. Prior to joining Entrea Capital, Dimitar Kostadinov served as the executive director, head of clients, and a member of the management team at ING Bank, Bulgaria. Dimitar was responsible for ING’s portfolio of corporate clients, strategic positioning, and all aspects of business origination and relationship management in the country. During his tenure at ING, Dimitar led the overall development of structured finance and corporate banking operations in the country through leveraging ING’s international product expertise.
In 2004, upon returning to Bulgaria, Dimitar acted as the financial and economic advisor to the country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Communications, advising him on policy issues in the transportation, infrastructure, and telecommunications sectors. Dimitar managed senior staff in the restructuring and strengthening of key state-owned enterprises in the telecommunications and marine transport sectors.
From 2001 to 2004, Dimitar was an equity research analyst at UBS Investment Banking, initially in Tokyo, Japan, and subsequently in London, the UK. At UBS, Dimitar covered the Consumer Goods and TMT sectors. While at UBS London, Dimitar published research reports and recommended investment strategies with a focus on the European FMCG sector. He liaised with companies’ senior management to discuss financial results and corporate strategic positioning. While as UBS Tokyo, Dimitar researched Japanese media stocks with a focus on advertising, broadcasting, and satellite sectors. He also helped develop the bank’s proprietary trading desk and worked on the IPO of Dentsu, the largest Japanese advertising agency.
Dimitar started his financial career with Salomon Smith Barney in the US where he developed and implemented equity and mutual funds investment strategies for high-net-worth investors.  
Dimitar holds an MBA degree in International Finance from Brandeis University and a BA degree in Business Administration from the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG).