Invest2Succeed - Session I - Georgia Rising - Facilitating Impact Investment

Joe Lynam

BBC's Senior Business Correspondent

Joe Lynam is a respected broadcaster and moderator who was the BBC’s senior Business Correspondent for a decade. He now presents the current affairs show ‘The Newsroom’ on the BBC World Service.

Joe has won many awards for his original journalism including the 2018 Headline Money Award for his BBC One exposé of how RBS (GRG) treated many of its own business customers. Joe was also the first to broadcast on Radio 4 a phone fraud (Vishing) in almost real time as an elderly lady unwittingly handed over her life savings to fraudsters. For that, he won the Wincott prize for Journalism in 2016.

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Natia Turnava

Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia

Natia Turnava was appointed at the position of the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia on 18 April, 2019, following the appointment at the position of the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, which she held since 2018.

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Valery Vavilov

Founder and CEO , Bitfury Group

Valery Vavilov is the CEO and founder of The Bitfury Group – the world’s leading full-service blockchain company. Valery's entrepreneurial experience and passion for Blockchain technology led him to found the company in 2011, when blockchain technology was just beginning to capture the world’s attention and imagination.

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Alexander Benard

Co-Head of Cerberus Frontier and Senior Managing Director, Cerberus (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Mr. Benard leads Cerberus’ private investment activities in frontier markets. Mr. Benard joined Cerberus in 2018 when the firm acquired SGI Frontier Capital to strategically advance its investment activities in emerging and frontier markets. Mr. Benard has led equity and debt transactions in a variety of emerging and frontier markets across Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Caucasus, and East Africa. In his previous role as Managing Partner at SGI Frontier, he was instrumental in helping establish it as a pioneer in frontier market investing with a strong reputation as an early-mover in some of Asia and Africa’s most exciting and fastest-growing economies.

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William Markstein

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Trammo

William (Bill) Markstein is a Senior Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer of Trammo, Inc. Trammo is an international commodity merchandiser engaged in the marketing, trading, distribution and transportation of a variety of commodity products, including being a market leader in anhydrous ammonia, sulfur, sulfuric acid, nitric acid and petroleum coke. Trammo is a global company employing over 150 individuals of more than 20 different nationalities in 20 locations worldwide, including offices in the U.S., Switzerland, Dubai, Singapore, China, France, Brazil and Russia.

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Fatih Guven

General Manager of ENKA Power

Fatih is general manager of ENKA Power Plants, the largest independent power producer in Turkey and board director in ENKA Renewables LLC developing the Namakhvani HEP Plant in Georgia.

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Irakli Burdiladze

CEO of JSC m2 Real Estate

Irakli Burdiladze is the CEO of JSC m² Real Estate. He previously served as the deputy CEO of JSC Bank of Georgia, in charge of operations.

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