Past Speakers Past visiting dignitaries and executives include Prime Minister of Lithuania - Andrius Kubilius, Prime Minister of Latvia Valdis Dombrovskis, HE Mr Simon Butt - Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Lithuania, H.E. Jan Palmstierna, - Swedish Ambassador to Estonia, H.E. Anne E. Derse - U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania, Raoul Hasselgren, Flemming Lindeløv, Jens Spendrup and many more.
Sten Scheibye Sten Scheibye is chairman of the Board of Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S. From 1995 to 2008 he was president and CEO of Coloplast A/S, Denmark. Before joining Coloplast in 1993, Mr Scheibye served as senior vice president, sales & marketing in Leo Pharma A/S, Denmark. He joined Leo Pharma in 1981. Mr Scheibye is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Trade Council of Denmark, the Board of Governors of DTU (the Technical University of Denmark), the Danish Industry Foundation and a member of the boards of Gambro AB, Sweden, Rambøll Gruppen A/S, DADES A/S, RM Rich. Müller A/S, the Rich. Müller Foundation, the Aase and Ejnar Danielsen Foundation and the Knud Højgaards Foundation, all of Denmark. Furthermore, he is chairman of the Denmark-America Foundation and vice chairman of the Danish Fulbright Commission.
Hans Dalborg Mr. Dalborg is the Chairman of Nordea, the Swedish Corporate Governance Board and Uppsala University.He is also a board member of Axel Johnson AB, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and East European Economies (SITE) and the Stockholm Institute for Financial Research (SIFR).
Dr. Yılmaz Argüden Dr. Argüden is a leading strategist, advisor, and board member of major public and private institutions, and NGOs. He is the Chairman of ARGE Consulting, a leading management consulting firm based in Istanbul. He is also the Chairman of Rothschild investment bank in Turkey. He has served on fifty different boards and is currently the Chairman or member of corporate governance committees of Coca Cola Icecek, Vestel, Yazici Holding, and Inmet Mining based in Toronto.
Daniela Weber-Rey Daniela Weber-Rey is a Partner in the Law firm Clifford Chance and advises mainly German and international clients. She is a member of the Conseil d'Administration at BNP Paribas, Paris, since May 2008. Member of the German Corporate Governance Commission since July 2008 and a member of the management board of the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association 2001 – 2005. Member of the Advisory Group on "Company Law and Corporate Governance" at the EU Commission since 2005. Member of the Expert Group "Removing obstacles to cross-border investments" at the EU Commission since 2006
Henning Dyremose Henning Dyremose has broad national and international management experience as the former CEO of TDC A/S and from other management post before that at Novo and DLH. He also has extensive experience of trade policy and economic affairs from having been a member of the Danish Parliament and served as both Labour Minister (1986-89) and Finance Minister (1989 -93). Mr Dyremose is or has been a Supervisory Board member or Chairman of many of the biggest Danish companies like TDC, Carlsberg, _e Confederation of Danish Industry, Gavdi, Danish Trade Council, Brdr. A & O Johansen A/S, KOFF A/S and Rosendahls Bogtrykkeri A/S
Aivaras Abromavicius Aivaras, a Lithuanian national, joined East Capital in 2002 and is today a Partner of East Capital, working within the Portfolio management team. He is based in Kyiv.Aivaras started his career with Hansabank, the largest Baltic Bank, where he soon was appointed Head of Equities. He also worked three years as Head of Trading at Brunswick Emerging Markets. Aivaras has a BA in International Business from Concordia International University, Estonia and Concordia University, Wisconsin, USA. He speaks Russian, Lithuanian and English fluently and communicates well in Estonian.
Lars Johan Cederlund Lars Johan Cederlund is Senior Advisor at KreabGavinAnderson since 2008. Former Senior adviser at the Ministry of Enterprise in Sweden, the Division for State-Owned Enterprises. Lars Johan Cederlund has a long standing experience in handling state owned enterprises and has experience as board member in a large number of companies. Examples are Swedish Export Credit Corporation, Telia AB, Vasakronan AB, Sveaskog AB and Svensk Bilprovning AB. Between 2004 – 2008 chairman of the OECD Working Group on Privatisation and Corporate Governance of State Owned Enterprises.
Sarah Blomfield Sarah is a graduate of Cambridge University in the UK and qualified as a solicitor with Slaughter and May in London in 1998. Sarah joined Rothschild in 2001 and is a Director in the Investment Banking Division, Head of the Technical Team and a member of the Risk Committee. Sarah’s team advises on a range of transactions from pitch to execution, specialising in on-market M&A including UK Takeover Code, Listing and Disclosure Rules and financial regulation. Sarah is also responsible for global best practice at Rothschild.
Dr. Elisabeth Wagner Dr. WAGNER from the Law firm of Clifford Chance in Germany advises mostly investment banks and financial investors in the areas of corporate finance and corporate structures. She specialises in takeovers, mergers and acquisitions and public transactions.
Richard Frederick Richard Frederick advises on issues of corporate governance and transparency mainly for the World Bank, the IFC, UNCTAD and the OECD. He was one of the principal authors of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, and a contributor to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the UN Guidance on Good Practices for Corporate Governance Disclosure, and other national and international codes of governance. Recently he has analyzed state-owned enterprise governance and worked on corporate governance codes in developing and emerging market economies.Mr. Frederick was involved in the privatization of state-owned enterprises for the Treuhandanstalt in the former East Germany and, while at KPMG, advised boards on executive remuneration schemes. Formerly a Principal Administrator at the OECD and the Director of Operations of the International Federation of Accountants, Mr. Frederick holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University and an MBA from INSEAD.
Pekka Timonen Pekka Timonen was a researcher and scholar in the University of Helsinki 1984 - 2001, Doctor of Laws 1997, Docent of Commercial Law in the University of Helsinki and Docent of Economics of Law in the University of Tampere. He has numerous publications in the field of Company Law, Corporate Governance and Legal Theory and several board memberships in both listed and non-listed Finnish companies. He is currently working in the in Prime Minister´s Office, Ownership Steering Department. He formerly worked for the Ministry of Trade and Industry /State Shareholdings Unit with responsibility for the corporate governance of state-owned companies in Finland. He is Finnish delegate in OECD Steering Group of Corporate Governance and OECD Working Group of Privatisation and Corporate Governance of State-owned ssets.
Chris Hodge Chris Hodge is Head of the Corporate Governance Unit at the UK Financial Reporting Council, the independent regulator responsible for corporate reporting and governance. He is responsible for updating and monitoring the effectiveness of the Combined Code on Corporate Governance and related guidance on issues such as internal control and audit committees. Prior to joining the FRC in 2004 Chris held various positions in different Government Ministries
Mr. Raoul Hasselgren Raoul Hasselgren is a very experienced Senior Executive, he has been a professional board member in 70 national and international companies, both private and public.
Mr. Flemming Lindeløv Flemming Lindeløv (PhD) holds an MSc in engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. He has been the senior executive of a number of Denmark’s largest companies, including FDB, Tulip Meatpackers, Carlsberg and Royal Scandinavia. He gained substantial management experience over a period of 30 years from these positions and has been in charge of a number of successful acquisitions, mergers and rationalisation measures. Mr. Lindeløv is 60 years old.
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