EMPEC Day 1: Monday, May 29, 2006
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Registration and Breakfast | | 9:30 - 10:20 | Opening Ceremony
• Address by Vladimir Strashko (Vice President, Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
• Opening remarks by Badri Gobechia (CEO, Open.ru Brokerage House)
• Opening remarks by Minister of Economy Satbir Singh (Indian Embassy in RF)
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10:20 - 10:50 | Globalization of Private Equity and How the Texas Pacific Group Reacted to It
• Speaker: Stephen Peel (Partner, Texas Pacific Group)
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10:50 - 11:20 | The Do's and Dont's of Investing into Russia
• Speaker: Patricia Cloherty (President & CEO, Delta Private Equity Partners)
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11:20 - 11:30 | Break
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11:30 - 12:00 | How Big Can Buyouts Get?
• Speaker: Stephen Moseley (Partner, Pacific Corporate Group)
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12:00 - 12:30 | Transforming Emerging Market Portfolio Companies
• Speaker: Dmitry Bosky (Managing Partner, Berkeley Capital Partners)
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12:30 - 13:00
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The Key Aspects of Investment Process in Moscow
• Speaker: Irina Rukina (Economic Advisor to the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation)
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13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch and Keynote Speaker: A View from the Limited Partners -New York State Common Retirement Fund
• Topic: Decision making process behind PE financing
• Speaker: Nicholas Smirensky (Director of Alternative Investments, New York State Common Retirement Fund)
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| 14:30 - 15:15 | Panel I
Venture Capital funds as a tool to attracting capital inflow to support medium and small business
• Speakers: Roman Kyzyk (General Partner, DFJ Nexus), Avi Hersh (Emerging Markets Capital & Credit Corp.)
• Moderator: Andrew Morozov (Managing Director, Amhurst Capital Partners)
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15:15 - 16:00 | Fireside Chat
Transparency, legal issues, and regulatory environments: creating investment climate with favorable conditions for domestic and foreign institutional investors
• Speakers: Arkadiy Dvorkovich (Head, Presidential Experts Directorate) and John Huhs (Senior Partner & Founder, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP)
• Moderator: Sergey Guriev (Dean, New Economic School)
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16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee Break
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16:15 - 17:00 | Panel II
Cooperation Between the Limited Partners and General Partners Within the Emerging Markets
• Speakers: Michael Katsnelson (Director, Quadriga Capital Russia), Richard Waryn (CEO, Troika Capital Partners), Michelle Smith (Investment Services Manager in Russia & CIS, OPIC)
• Moderator: Colin Breeze (Managing Member, Breeze Venture Management)
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EMPEC Day 2: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Breakfast
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9:30 - 10:00 | Evolution of Private Equity in Russia and other Emerging Markets
• Speaker: Michael Calvey (Co-Managing Partner, Baring Vostok)
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10:00 - 10:30 | Behavioral Economics and the World of Private Equity
• Speaker: Michael Underhill (Managing Director, Pacific Corporate Group; Chairman, Foundation of Behavioral Economics)
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10:30 - 11:00 | Comparison of Private Equity Markets in Russia and Ukraine
• Speaker: Richard Sobel (Chief Executive Officer, Alfa Capital Partners)
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11:00 - 11:15 | Break
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11:15 - 12:00 | Executive Address
Venture Capital Fund as a priority project for the Russian Government
• Andrey Sharonov (Deputy Minister, Russian Federation Ministry of Economic Development and Trade)
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | World Bank View on the Future of Investments in Emerging Markets
• Speaker: Kristalina Georgieva (Director of Russian Operations, World Bank)
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12:30 - 13:00 | Winning Successful Russian Entrepreneurs to a Fund's side
• Speaker: Andrey Tikhomirov (Director, Russia Partners)
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| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch with London Stock Exchange
Emerging Market IPOs Moving to London
• Martin Graham (Director of Market Services and AIM, London Stock Exchange)
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14:30 - 15:00 | Institutional Investors on the Russian Real Estate Market
• Speaker: Georgy Dzagurov (Group Chairman Chief Executive Officer, Penny Lane Realty)
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15:00 - 15:30 | Investments in Mass Media and Real Estate
• Speaker: Pavel Khokhryakov (President & CEO, PromSvyazCapital Group)
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15:30 - 16:00 | Private Equity Problems and Opportunities in Russia: Lessons from Case Studies
• Speaker: Alexander Abolmasov (Managing Director, Zindel Investment Partners)
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16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee Break
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| 16:15 - 17:00 | Panel III
IPO as an Exit Strategy for Private Equity Investments in Emerging Markets
• Speakers: Jon Edwards (Senior Manager on Central and Easter Europe, London Stock Exhange), Ilya Merenzon (Director of Research & Founder of RUXX Index, Press Release Group), Paulina McGroarty (Managing Director, NASDAQ)
• Moderator: Jason Bush (Moscow Chief Bureau, BusinessWeek)
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| 17:00 - 17:30 | Closing Remarks
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