”East Capital” summit in Belgrade – May 11-12

East Capital, one of the leading investor in the Balkans, is organizing a summit that will include the panel discussion on investment opportunieis in the region. Within the scope of this summit, the participants, together with the members of East Capital’s investment team led by Peter Elam Håkansson, the President, co-founder and head of the investment team, and partner Jakob Grapengiesser, will meet with the representatives of numerous Balkan companies that operate in the spheres of banking, consumer goods, tourism, civil engineering and communications.

The themes of the meeting are as follows:

- What makes investments in the Balkans attractive?
- What is the prognosis for the Balkans in 2009 and 2010?
- How do different companies and sectors adapt to the new conditions?
- Are the countries in the Balkans still on their way of getting closer to European Union?
- Which investment strategies are important on short-term and long-term basis?

The participants in the summit will visit Energoprojekt holding, as well as media company B92, in which East Capital already invested significant funds.

East Capital is, by the way, leading independent organization for investment funds management, and it is specialized for Eastern European market. Its headquarters are in Stockholm, while the offices are situated in Moscow, Paris, Hong Kong, Oslo, Talin and Vienna.

East Capital was founded in 1997 and it now manages nearly 2.5 billion USD in public and private stock capital. It has 160 employees, 37 of whom are investment experts. This company invests in 29 countries in central, south and east Europe, Baltic countries, as well as in CIS (Commonwealth Independent States).

East Capital is of the largest investors in the Balkans, so that the funds run by East Capital had 215m EUR invested in our region at the end of year 2008, and what is also interesting is that they invested in 36 companies in Serbia.