Ways to Finance Growth of Croatian Businesses

The American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia and the leading CEE focused private equity fund Enterprise Investors (member of the AmCham in Poland) organized an executive event on the ways of financing growth of Croatian businesses. 

Private equity and venture capital play key role in economic growth and strongly contribute to job creation. The goal of private equity is to help more businesses achieve their ambitions for growth by providing the financial firepower and strategic advice in critical stages of their development.

Program:
09:00 - 09:30 Registration and breakfast
09:30 - 09:35 Opening remarks, Andrea Doko Jelušić, Executive Director, AmCham Croatia
09:35 - 09:55 "The one-year milestone: lessons learned from our investments in Croatia", Michał Kędzia, Partner, Enterprise Investors
09:55 - 10:55 Panel discussion:

• Michał Kędzia, Partner, Enterprise Investors
• Daniel Radić, Partner, Advisory Services, KPMG
• Zrinka Živković Matijević, Head of Economic Research Department, Raiffeisenbank Austria
• Miljan Ždrale, Head of Agribusiness for CSEE, EBRD

Enterprise Investors is one of the largest private equity firms in Central and Eastern Europe. Active since 1990, the firm has raised nine funds with total capital exceeding EUR 2.5 billion. These funds have invested EUR 1.9 billion in 143 companies across a range of sectors and exited 130 companies with total gross proceeds of EUR 3.8 billion.