Michael Knott

Senior Partner Global TMT

Roland Berger

Michael Knott is a London-based Senior Partner in the global Telecoms, Media, and Technology (TMT) practice. Michael has 30 years of TMT experience and 22 years as a Partner.
Michael has extensive history with providing investor transaction support as well as leading strategy, performance improvement, and business transformation engagements for corporations across the TMT sector.
Michael began his career in TMT in the early '90s working for a multinational telecommunications holding company in the pricing strategy field. Later he held leadership roles in a number of consulting firms, driving both organic and inorganic value accretion for his TMT clients across EMEA.
Michael holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario Canada as well as a MBA from London Business School.

Andrei Milekhin

Managing Director & Global Head of Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking

Nomura Greentech

Andrei Milekhin is a Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking at Nomura Greentech based in London. Andrei focuses on a variety of digital infrastructure and telecommunications markets and businesses globally and in Europe, in particular
Andrei joined Nomura in July 2016 following two years at VimpelCom (now Veon) in Amsterdam, where he was responsible for origination / execution of M&A transactions as well as spearheading the efforts with respect to defining portfolio strategy for the Group. Prior to joining VimpelCom, Andrei was a Director in the TMT Investment Banking team at UBS in London
Notable recent transactions include advising PGGM and EDF Invest on acquisition of a minority stake in Norlys Tele in Denmark, GIC on acquisition of a minority stake in CETIN, Ardian on acquisition of Adamo in Spain, Allianz Capital Partners on acquisition of a minority stake in American Tower Europe (c.€1bn) and a 50/50 partnership with Telefonica to roll-out FTTH network in rural Germany (€5bn), as well as sale of Towertel to Phoenix Tower International and sale of Retelit to Asterion Industrial Partners (c.€700m)
Andrei holds a degree in Economics from Moscow State University for International Relations (MGIMO)

Jennifer Mbaluto

Partner

Clifford Chance

Darragh Stokes

Managing Partner

Hardiman Telecommunications Ltd.

Anne Chitan

Global Co-Head of Communications, Partner

CMS

Anne is co-head of the communications subgroup for CMS internationally and is a partner in the Finance Group. Her practice covers various industry sectors with a main focus on telecoms, media and technology. Anne has advised senior lenders, junior lenders and borrowers. Having advised euNetworks and CityFibre for many years, Anne has been involved in multiple transactions in the digital infrastructure space in the UK and in Europe, including this year on Macquarie's acquisition of digital infrastructure from MásMovil in Spain.

Benoît Tanguy

Global Co-Head - TMT

SGCIB

Charles Murray

Partner

Analysys Mason

Charles is a Partner at Analysys Mason and an acknowledged expert in transaction support, with over 20 years' experience advising on some of the largest technology, media and telecoms (TMT) deals around the world. Charles combines his deep commercial insight and technical knowledge with robust financial analysis to guide investors and operators through complex issues. Charles specialises in digital infrastructure and mobile operator strategy, including network sharing, enterprise and Internet of Things.
Recent projects include support for: Vodafone's IPO of Vantage Towers, sell-side for Arqiva's divestment of its mobile towers, Polkomtel Infrastruktura's carve out of its wholesale mobile network, T-Mobile NL's fibre joint venture with KRR.

Laurence Hainault

Managing Director, Head of EMEA Telecom

Credit Suisse

Laurence G. Hainault is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking and Capital Markets division, based in Paris. She is Head of EMEA Telecom and responsible for covering Telecom, Media and Technology clients.
Ms. Hainault joined Credit Suisse First Boston in October 2000 through the merger with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where she was an Associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions team. She started her career in 1997 as a member of the DLJ Media & Telecom team, based in New York to then work in the M&A team in London in 2000. In the same year, she joined the Credit Suisse TMT team, based in London until 2009
Ms. Hainault holds 21 years of experience working for TMT clients on a wide range of assignments including M&A, ECM, HY and DCM
Ms. Hainault holds a Magistere degree in "Bank-Finance-Insurance" and a DEA-Research Master in International Economics and Finance from the University of Paris Dauphine as well as a Master degree in Business Law from the University of Paris Pantheon Sorbonne
Languages spoken: French, English, Spanish

Christian Lesueur

Managing Director, Global Head of TMT Investment Banking

UBS

Christian has been at UBS for 24 years and is currently Global Head of TMT Investment Banking and a member of the Global Banking Management Committee. During his career, Christian has worked on over 80 M&A transactions totalling US$590 billion and over 40 ECM transactions totalling US$37 billion. Christian holds a B.A. (cum laude) from Yale University.

Dan Lerner

Partner

Altman Solon

Dan Lerner is a strategy consultant with over 15 years of experience advising senior investors and corporate clients on transactions and strategy in the telecom, media and tech sectors. At Altman Solon, Dan focuses his time on assisting investors into the tech and telecom landscape with market screening, buy-side and sell-side due diligence, and post investment strategy. His work has included the development and implementation of strategies across the Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (TMT) landscape, including: mobile, incumbent fixed, B2B fibre, FTTH fibre, sub-sea, VAS, unified communications, hosting, data centres, messaging, video streaming, broadcast and mobile towers, as well as the media, broadcasting and technology.

Olivier Wolf

Partner

EY-Parthenon

Olivier is the Global Leader for the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector (TMT) at EY-Parthenon, the strategy consulting arm of EY.
He has advised TMT C-Suite corporate clients and private equity funds in the for more than 25 years. He has extensive international experience in growth strategy, commercial due diligence, market analysis, business plan development, synergy evaluation and post-acquisition strategy.
He has advised a wide range of TMT clients such as BT, Sony, Ericsson, RELX, OVH, WPP plc, Phillips, Channel 4 as well as for Private Equity funds such as KKR, Hg Capital, Carlyle, Macquarie, Apax Partners, Digital Bridge and Bain Capital.
Olivier is a respected industry commentator in the TMT sector, having appeared on TV and industry conferences, as well as being quoted in print media such as FT and TMT Finance.
Olivier has a degree in Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

Alex Evans

Managing Director, Head TMT, EMEA,

Barclays Investment Banking

Alex Evans is a Managing Director and Co-Head of TMT, EMEA at Barclays, with over 20 years of corporate finance experience. Alex has a significant track record of dealing with a broad range of M&A, equity and debt raising transactions for clients such as Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Telenor, TeliaSonera, Iliad, Cellnex, Vimpelcom, Turk Telekom, MTS, Megafon, MTN and Vodacom.

Pieter-Jan Bouten

Managing Director, Global Head of Telecommunications & Digital Infrastructure,

Greenhill

PJ joined Greenhill in 2001. He specialises in providing financial and strategic advice to corporate clients across the Telecommunications, Media and Technology sectors.
PJ graduated from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with a Masters degree in Law and a Bachelors degree in Philosophy. He also holds a Law degree from King's College London
In 2014, he was named by Dow Jones Financial News as one of the top 40 "Rising Stars" in the investment banking industry

Michael Quinn

Founding Partner

Q Advisors

Nina Triantis

Global Head of TMT

Standard Bank

Over 30 years investment banking experience, specialised in the TMT sector with experience throughout the developed world and the emerging markets for over 20 years.
Also responsible for coordination and coverage of financial sponsors including private equity, institutional investors, family offices and sovereign wealth funds with a focus of transactions into Africa across sector.
Has led complex and plain vanilla financing transactions across the capital spectrum, including in the public markets. Wide ranging M&A advisory, Equity Capital Markets and Capital Raise experience.
Diverse and broad client base across TMT within all sectors and sub-sectors including telecom services, telecoms infrastructure, technology and fintech.
MBA from Stern New York University graduate school of business and BA in Economics and French from Columbia University.

Mike Conradi

Partner

DLA Piper LLP

Mike is co-chair of the international telecoms practice at global law firm DLA Piper. He is rated amongst the leading telecoms layers globally by all the various guides with Legal 500 placing him as a "leading individual" for telecoms matters whilst the legal guide Chambers and Partners has quoted of him that "[he] produces punchy and straightforward answers - he's direct and commercial, and gets to the point quickly."
Mike is the editor of the Communications Law Handbook published by Bloomsbury Professional.

Gulfraz Qayyum

MD Head of EMEA Telecommunications Investment Banking TMT and Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking

Citigroup

Gulfraz has a distinguished track record advising communications operators and infrastructure providers on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and other investment banking business. Over a career spanning 20 years, he has accumulated deep and diverse experience across markets, sub sectors and with a multitude of client types and capital providers. He has advised on hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of advisory deals and successfully executed over $100 billion of strategic capital raising transactions for large corporates and investors. Today, Gulfraz's major clients are global, Western European and emerging markets telecom operators. He also has responsibility for the digital infrastructure space in EMEA. Gulfraz has held offices in London, New York, Singapore and Dubai.
Gulfraz holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School and a BSc with first class honours in Mathematics with Computer Science from University College London.

Panos Metsis

Managing Director, Telecoms & Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking

BNP Paribas

Panos is Managing Director, Telecoms & Digital Infrastructure at BNP Paribas TMT EMEA Investment Banking, based in London. He is leading the bank's activities in his sector in the UK, Nordics, CEE/SEE and the Netherlands. He has 23 years of transaction experience in the TMT sector, in roles both on the investment banking side and in the telecoms industry. He has advised on completed large cap and mid cap M&A and financings worth over $70bn across TMT sub-sectors.

Ranesh Verma

Managing Director, Global Sector Head, TMT & Healthcare

ING Bank

Ranesh heads the Telecom, Media, Technology & Healthcare sector team for ING, which comprises of c100 sector bankers across the globe. He joined ING in 2008, and has close to 30 years of experience working with corporate clients, being been active in the TMT sector for over 20 years. Ranesh is a UK citizen, and has worked internationally since 2006, being based in Hong Kong, Singapore and most recently splitting his time between Amsterdam and London.
Prior to working at ING, Ranesh was at RBS where he was MD and Regional Head of the Structured Asset Finance team based in Hong Kong, and previously MD in the TMT sector team based on London. Before RBS, Ranesh spent 8 years at NatWest Markets providing debt and DCM solutions to clients in the telecom, leisure, pharmaceutical and retail sectors.
Ranesh has an MA in Business Analysis from Leicester University and an BA Hons in Management & Business Studies from Liverpool University. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and of the Securities & Investment Institute.

Julien Oussadon

Managing Director

Harris Williams

Julien Oussadon is a Managing Director in the Technology Group at Harris Williams. He has over 18 years of experience in technology investment banking having advised various public and private companies on M&A and capital raising assignments, many of which have been cross-border transactions. He joined HW from UBS TMT Investment Banking in London where he led coverage of the European Software sector. Previously, he spearheaded UBS' Strategic Investments Group, UBS' corporate venture capital arm focused on early-staged technology investments. Julien holds a B.S. from Boston University.