Bull & Bear Banquet
The East Wintergarden, London, 22 April 2008
On Tuesday 22 April, the spectacular East Wintergarden in London’s Canary Wharf was the venue for the second Bull & Bear Banquet, which was first held as part of the Global Investment & Finance Forum in Moscow in December 2007.
Organised in the heart of London’s new financial district, the dinner brought together leading names from banking and industry, as well as many of London’s best known specialist financial editors and journalists.
It marked the last day of the Russia Investment Roadshow, which was held on 20-22 April, and was attended by over 200 senior international corporates, investment bankers, investors, analysts and other key decision makers from business and the media, who were able to socialise, network and reflect on the conference.
Participants included Dmitry Pankin, Russian Deputy Finance Minister (as guest speaker); Roger Munnings, KPMG; Alexei Gurin, CentreInvest; Alexander Potemkin, MICEX; Lev Hasis, X5; Boris Minz, Financial Corporation Otkritie; Igor Finogenov, Eurasian Development Bank; Reiner Hartmann, E.ON Ruhrgas; Marcus Feller, FSA; Dmitry Parfenov, Complex Oil; Vladimir Ruga, TNK-BP; Oliver Hughes, TCS bank; Oleg Anisimov, Finance Magazine; Marianna Maksimovskaya, REN TV and editors and senior journalists from the Financial Times, Financial News, The Times, Trader Monthly, the Banker, Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
