MVCA was delighted to welcome Edward Mott and Dr Asa Blidegard from Oxford Capital Partners to the breakfast round table discussion on Healthcare current trends and key issues. Ted gave an interesting general overview of the Healthcare industry and talked in more detail about Oxford Capital’s hand’s on strategy approach to their investments, the importance of the Management team as well as the IP of the technology which provides the company with its unique selling point.

MVCA had the pleasure to welcome Sean Glodek who runs the Warsaw office of Darby Private Equity, currently investing a €250 million mezzanine and minority equity fund dedicated to CEE and Russia/CIS. Prior to Darby, Sean was a Vice President in the Global M&A group at Lehman Brothers in New York. Before Lehman, he was part of the M&A groups at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. Sean was also an investment professional at private equity firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Ameriquest Capital. In the Internet days, Sean co-founded Surplex AG, a B2B startup based in Germany.

During lunch Sean talked about the Eastern European landscape and opportunities, some background why Eastern Europe is an attractive region to invest and which countries specifically have the best outlook. Sean also talked in some detail about the mezzanine / hybrid debt and equity investments which represent the bulk of investment opportunities and offer a very good risk / reward

 

MVCA has the pleasure to welcome three companies for the next Co-Investment Opportunity event on Tuesday 14 September:

ELLESSE

The ELLESSE brand was an extremely high profile sportswear brand between the 1960s through to the 1980s and seen on the tennis courts at Wimbledon to ski slopes in the Alps. Consule Hong Kong has acquired the long term rights form the Pentland Group to re-launch the brand in Germany, Scandinavia and Central Europe, as well as selling ELESSE’s footwear designs worldwide. Consule HK was founded by Ivan Herjavec a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in merchandising and retailing working with top sportswear brands such as ADDIDAS, SPEEDO LACOSTE and CALVIN KLEIN.

ARTCOM MONACO - 5 minute Elevator pitch

ARTCOM MONACO provides urban Advertising network in a variety of formats strategically placed throughout Monaco. ARTCOM MONACO’s latest concept is a touch screen Kiosk providing an interactive guide to Monaco, and is designed to broadcast advertising messages and images in a simple, fun and effective way

CRYSTAL BEAM MELODY

Crystal Beam Melody (CBM) through its patented lazer technology has extracted a unique melody out of diamonds, each diamond having its own individual musical fingerprint. CBM is commercializing this technology which enhances the emotional value of diamonds and provides an added value to the customer. The company was founded by Sir Gabriel Tolkowsky a renowned diamond cutter famous for his work on the Centenary diamond said to have sold for $ 100 million by De Beers.

 

On a lovely summer's evening the annual MVCA Summer Cocktail was held at the Claudia and Barend van der Vorm's villa. Almost all the members who had not yet left the principality attended and HSH Prince Albert II honored us with His presence.