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Macedonia Global Investment Summit 2012
Leveraging business Diaspora to promote trade, investments and economic growthOhrid, Macedonia
on October 18-21, 2012
Join us at the first of its kind Macedonia Global Investment Summit, and use this unique opportunity to meet Macedonian top executives and business professionals from around the world, and explore the numerous investment opportunities in Macedonia. The summit will consist of working panels and networking events to discuss and explore information to stimulate joint cooperation among Macedonian and foreign companies in different sectors including: infrastructure, energy and natural resources; ICT; manufacturing, agribusiness and food processing; real estate, construction and tourism; financial services, and many more. Some of the topics to be discussed are:
- Global political outlook and economic prospects
- Doing business in Macedonia
- Investment climate in Macedonia: a perspective of existing FDIs
- Globally competitive Macedonian products: successful business models of cooperation between Macedonian and Diaspora companies
- Financing investment projects, from micro finance to financing big projects
- Leveraging Diaspora to create economic opportunities
The Summit is a place to meet Government officials, discover the business climate, explore incentives for foreign investments andprojects in competitive industries; promote linkages between business professionals from Macedonia and the Diaspora, where they can discuss opportunities for joint cooperation and showcase export-oriented products and services; and a place for executives of successful international companies, finance institutions and existing direct foreign investors in Macedonia to discuss future opportunities.
Some of the confirmed distinguished speakers are:
- H.E. Mr. Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister of the Macedonian Government
- Samih Elhage, COO & Executive Board Member of Nokia Siemens Networks
- Dr. Kurt Geiger, Director on the Board of Raiffeisen Bank International
- Mike Zafirovski, senior advisor to the Blackstone Group, USA and Chairman of Macedonia 2025
- John I. Bitove, principal shareholder at Obelysk, Canada and Board Member and Chair of Macedonia 2025’s Events & Diaspora Committee
- Robert Arsov, Director in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse, USA and Vice Chairman of Macedonia 2025
- Vera Stavroff, President and CEO of HerbalScience and AlkaloidUSA, co-founder of GreenBeauty and Board Member of Macedonia 2025
- Andy Peykoff, founder of Niagara Bottling and Board Member of Macedonia 2025
Other members of the Macedonia 2025 Board of Directors to participate as panelist are:
- Mitre Kutanovski, President and CEO of Mitre Group and former Executive at American Express
- Zoran Martinovski, Manager of World Bank’s International Finance Corporation for Macedonia
- Alex Kormushoff, former COO of SPSS, sold to IBM in 2009
- Minco Jordanov, Main partner Makstil AD Skopje
- Zhivko Mukaetov, President of Managing Board and CEO of Alkaloid AD Skopje
- Emil Hristov, owner of EMSA Solar
For more information about the Summit, please contact us at summit@macedonia2025.com.
We look forward to meeting you in Ohrid this October!
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www.MGISummit.com