Kristjan Kalda

EstVCA, BaltCap

Chairman of the EstVCA management board and BaltCap partner. Kristjan has been investment
director and catalyst for Baltics’ PE success story Magnetic MRO. He currently manages BaltCap portfolio companies TREV-2 and Fitek. He has lead a number of companies to successful exit: Energate, Tuuleenergia, Microlink, A. le Coq, to name a few.

Kristīne Bērziņa

LVCA, Livonia Partner

Livonia Partners founding partner, LVCA board member. She brings to Livonia Partners her diverse experience in investing, transaction advisory, corporate strategy and operational management. Since 2008 she has developed private equity investments alongside US-based MVC Capital (NYSE:MVC). Previously she spent over 10 years with PwC Consulting and IBM Business Consulting Services in Rīga, New York and London, and later worked at Lattelecom, a Latvian telecommunications and internet service provider company.

Martins Zemitis

European Comission

Economic Advisor at European Commission in charge of European Semester, EMU deepening, InvestEU, Energy Union and Capital Markets Union.

Michael Collins

Invest Europe

Chief Executive Officer of the world’s largest private equity and venture capital association since 2016. Michael and his team represent Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, across the EU institutions and at the highest levels of business.

Anne Fossemalle

EBRD

Anne has been the Director in charge of Equity Funds at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development since 2009. She has over 25 years of private equity experience and holds numerous Supervisory Board and Investment Committee memberships with major fund managers within the EBRD’s countries of operations. Anne joined the EBRD in 1993 from Natixis in Paris, and has worked in a number of capacities prior to heading the Equity Funds team, notably leading EBRD’s debt and direct equity investments into financial institutions. Anne holds Masters degrees from Stanford University, Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (France) and Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (France).

Bjorn Tremmerie

EIF

Bjorn is Head of the ICT and Business Angel Investments division at the EIF.
He leads the EUR 3.2bn ERP-EIF Dachfonds programme that EIF is implementing on behalf of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), an initiative dedicated to the German VC market.He also oversees the European Angel Fund co-investment programme, the Dutch Venture Initiative fund-of-funds where he is an investment committee member, and the LfA-EIF Facility, a EUR 200m fund-of-funds for the Bavarian region. His team invests and monitors investments in venture capital funds in Europe as well as manages co-investments alongside business angels. Their portfolio includes some 150 European VC funds. Before joining EIF in 2002, Bjorn used to work for a globally active VC fund. He started his career at ING in investment banking.

Monika Nachyla

Abris (Poland)

Monika is a Partner at Abris, one of leading PE fund managers based in Poland (best Private Equity Firm 2017 - CEE Mergers & Acquisitions award). She has 24 years of international, C-suite experience in finance, private equity, banking, investor relations, management, strategy and development. She is also vice president of Polish Private Equity Association (PSIK).

Alise Eljasane

TGS Baltic

The lion's share of the alternative investment funds and managers registered in the Baltics has been established with the helping hand given by Alise. Among others, her clients include Hipo Fondi aktīvu pārvalde, Norvik ieguldījumu pārvaldes sabiedrība, INVL Asset Management, Alfa Asset Managament, EcoEnergy AIFP (LV Asset Management), Overkill Ventures AIFP, etc.

Marko Kairjak

TGS Baltic

Marko Kairjak, PhD , Partner at TGS Baltic, is a regulatory expert on banking and investment services sector, having been involved in many expert groups by the Ministry of Finance of Estonia. He is also renowned for his expertise in innovative fields such as fintech, crowdfunding and AIFs.

Sarunas Alekna

LtVCA, BaltCap

Sarunas is Chairman of the Board at Lithuanian Venture Capital Association and Investment Director at BaltCap with 10 years of Private Equity experience. Having recently completed successful exit of Kelprojektas, Sarunas continues to be involved in portfolio companies Ecoservice, BPT Real Estate and Eesti Keskkonnateenused. Previously he has completed a number of M&A and Capital Markets projects in the Baltics as Director at Suprema, Evli bank and Deloitte.

Jānis Janevics

LVCA, Imprimatur Capital

Jānis is partner and co-founder of Imprimatur Capital Fund Management, early stage VC. Member of the board of LVCA. Previously on the board of Eko Investors VC firm in Latvia and with Suprema pan-Baltic corporate finance advisory. BSc in economics and business administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga; MSc in finance from the Stockholm School of Economics.