EBRD Senior Advisor Nicholas Jeffery
People | May 12, 2009, Tuesday // 11:24| viewsNicholas Jeffery is a Senior Advisor, Investment and Strategic Planning, at the Telecommunications, Informatics and Media group for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Jeffery is the originator of the Telecommunications, Informatics and Media Investment and Strategic Planning document for the EBRD in September 2007.
He is responsible for new business development for the TIM group, looking for investment opportunities and co-investment partners from the Bank's 30 countries of operation, and in the US and India.
Jeffery has responsibility for evaluating all investment plans that come into the EBRD for the TIM group's consideration. Working with a Senior Banker from the team he evaluates the business plan from the stand point of: business or service proposition; technology; market dynamics and competition; expansion opportunity; management team; operational implementation strategy; funding requirement; sales and marketing plans; P&L forecasts and IRR.
Following funding approval and equity investment, Jeffery would then take a board seat with the company and assist in the implementation of the business plan.
Nicholas Jeffery has also been part of a seventy person task force working for the United Nations, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific with responsibility for creating a development strategy for broadband deployment and ICT development for improved communications in central Asia on behalf of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development .
He has a 22-year experience in the international sales and marketing of business-to-business and business-to-consumers solutions to large corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises. His former positions include the UK Managing Director of PSINet Europe, and Managing Director of PSINet NL.
He has lectured throughout Europe, US and APR on migrating brands across geographic boundaries and business markets, and has been awarded a certificate of merit by the United Nations for contributions to environmental marketing, global corporate governance and consumer awareness.
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