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).

Christian has more than seven years of working experience in mezzanine finance and investment banking in Central and Eastern Europe and the DACH region.
He joined Mezzanine Management in July 2010 and – based in the Vienna headquarters and responsible for deal generation and execution - covers Austria’s neighbouring markets, Bulgaria, the Balkans and the Baltics. Mezzanine Management advises three leading Central and Eastern European focused mezzanine funds and advised on committing and investing over EUR 500 million in 38 companies across 10 countries. Mezzanine Management operates out of Vienna with satellite offices in Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest and Kiev.
Before joining Mezzanine Management, Christian worked at a Frankfurt-based mid-market mezzanine fund focusing on the DACH region, where he was responsible for new investments and portfolio monitoring. During the financial crisis, Christian gained comprehensive restructuring experience in a number of industries. He started his career at CEE’s leading investment bank CAIB, now part of Unicredit’s Markets and Investment Banking division, working on transactions in Austria and CEE.
Christian holds a Masters degree from the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, where he majored in corporate finance and strategic management/controlling.  

Julian Gikov is CEO of Raiffeisen Investment Bulgaria, where he has been involved in M&A consulting in Bulgaria and the SEE region for the last 7 years. Since joining the company, he has advised on numerous large international M&A transactions – many of those jointly executed with Lazard. He has extensive investment banking experience in the energy, telecommunications, heavy industry, consumer goods, retail, agriculture, ТМТ, RE and other sectors. In 2011, Julian Gikov received "Best M&A Deal in CEE" prize awarded to Raiffeisen Investment by the international EMEA Finance magazine for consulting a EUR 545 million deal in the energy sector in Bulgaria. Since autumn 2014, Julian is also covering the Western Balkans region.
Prior to that, as part of KPMG’s Financial Services team, Julian has worked on assurance and corporate finance projects including audit, due diligence, IPOs and securitizations in various industries with focus on financial institutions. Julian has previous experience at UBS, London - Investment Banking and Fixed Income divisions and gained experience at Ernst & Young, Stuttgart - Corporate Finance Dpt. where he was involved in M&A, squeeze-out transactions and enterprise valuations. He also had internship at Bloomberg, London. 
Mr. Gikov is PhD in Economics. He is MBA from SIU in Germany and USA, and has a Bachelor in Financial Management & Accounting from The Buckingham University in the UK. He has also specialised in Banking at LSE, London.

Isfandyar Zaman Khan is the Program Leader responsible for the Financial Sector and Competitiveness issues covering the new EU Member States and is based in Brussels. He works on issues related to financial sector development as it relates to access to finance, capital markets development, innovative finance and post crisis management. In his 12 years at the World Bank, he has worked in number of countries such as Armenia, Bosnia, Croatia, India, Kosovo, Nigeria, Turkey, Pakistan and Ukraine, India, Pakistan. Prior to the World Bank he worked at the Investment Bank of Salomon Smith Barney in New York. He holds a Masters in International Finance and Economic Policy from Columbia University.

Hristo Stoyanov manages the business development activities in Bulgaria of the European Investment Fund. He joined the EIF office in Sofia as mandate manager in 2011 responsible for the operations of a Bulgarian holding fund providing EU Structural Funds through SME-focused financial instruments including guarantees, start-up accelerators and venture capital. He is member of the Board of Directors of JEREMIE Bulgaria - company, acting as an umbrella fund with diversified portfolio of private equity funds and risk-sharing commitments to local credit institutions. Prior to joining the EIF, Hristo managed M&A advisory projects at Forem Consulting in Sofia. He holds a MBA degree from University of Notre Dame in the USA.

Stephane Gantchev is Partner at LAUNCHub, a 9M seed fund supporting the most promising entrepreneurs and digital startups in Bulgaria and South Eastern Europe. Prior to Launchub, Stephane started his career in France, initially in the largest IT service provider company Atos Origin. He moved later to Orange (France Telecom) where he was Head of Innovations for the Orange France Mobile entity, discovering and trialing start-up in the mobile/telecom space. Stephane has been very active in the Bulgarian mobile and entrepreneur event scene contributing its grow, he co-founded in 2009 MobileMonday Sofia, and recently co-organized the Balkan Venture Forum 2013 and DigitalK 2014.

Mr. Elvin Guri is an investor and entrepreneur with a successful track record in financial services. He is currently CEO of River Styxx Capital, an investment and advisory firm. In addition, Mr. Guri is the CEO of Empower Capital Advisor, which will manage the 15 mln. euro co-investment fund as part of the Jeremie programme. He started his career as Auditor at Price Waterhouse in Sofia. Starting from October 1996, he spent more than five years with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), both in London and in Sofia.  Mr. Guri co-founded JetFinance International (JetFinance), a consumer finance institution, in 2001-2002. Post JetFinance, Mr. Guri has been involved, as an investor and as a mentor, in financial services and in technology ventures.
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Danail Danailov is member of the board of Speedy JSC (responsible for strategy and business development).
He has 20 years of extensive experience in business and finance with emphasize on equity investment; consulting and privatization; stock markets and macroeconomic analysis. 
In 2011, Dani joined the management team of Speedy Group (Bulgarian investment group focusing on courier, logistics, transport, car dealership and lubricants distribution). 
Dani has worked for 12 years in the Balkan region on the field of private equity and has developed specific experience in a variety of industries including: Energy (LPG distribution, engineering solutions), Paper products production, Stationary product distribution, Electronics production, Waste processing and recycling, Food processing, Food services, and Renewable energy. 
Dani joined SEAF (US based private equity management) in 2000 as a financial analyst involved in deal origination; in 2003 he was promoted to Senior Investment Officer of Trans Balkan Bulgaria Fund and from 2009 to 2011 Dani was Managing Director of SEAF- Bulgaria.
From 1998 to 2000 Dani Danailov worked with Brno Broker Group (a Czech brokerage and investment advisory company) in Bulgaria. Initially he was a broker and later was involved as a consultant on privatization projects in energy and media. 
From 1996 to 1998 Dani Danailov was an economist with the Agency for Economic Analysis and Forecasting within Bulgarian Ministry of Finance.
Mr. Danailov holds a MS in Finance from the University for National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria where he studied from 1992 to 1996. A Bulgarian national, Mr. Danailov speaks Bulgarian, English, French and Russian.

Borislav joined Deutsche Bank in 2000 and has held a variety of positions in the bank. He started his career in the Inhouse Consulting and Business Development departments at the headquarters in Frankfurt and contributed to the success of numerous projects in different locations in Germany and Western Europe. Since 2004 Borislav has been strongly involved in the business development activities of the bank in Central and Eastern Europe. He has been responsible for various growth projects in the region, e.g. Russia, Poland and Romania. In 2007 Borislav became Head of the Representative Office in Sofia. Since then Deutsche Bank AG has established itself as a reliable partner to the Bulgarian government and has arranged a couple of large-scale financing deals. Deutsche Bank is also the leading transaction banking partner for local banks and other financial institutions. The representative office in Sofia maintains active relationships with big Bulgarian corporates and has participated in five of the ten largest investment banking deals in the country in the last years. Since March 2014 Borislav manages as Chief Country Officer the subsidiary of Deutsche Bank in Kiev focused on corporate banking for leading MNCs and key local corporates. Apart from the challenges of restructuring the portfolio in an unconventional market, Borislav works on the growth strategy of Deutsche Bank for the post-crisis period in Ukraine. The bank established itself as key partner for Government and National Bank in developing the recovery program and economic strategy of Ukraine. Borislav studied Business Administration at the Free University of Berlin (graduation as Diplom Kaufmann) with focus on finance and investment theory. He is fluent in German, English and Russian.