Julian Gikov

Julian Gikov is Executive Director at Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Vienna responsible for SEE region Mergers & Acquisitions advisory activities as well as for CEE Infrastructure M&A advisory. He is also CEO of Raiffeisen Advisory - the bank’s M&A advisory house in Bulgaria. He has been involved in deal advisory on numerous international M&A transactions in broad range of industries over the past 20 years in the CEE region. Julian has extensive experience in advising on Sustainable asset acquisitions including RES projects of over 10 GW of installed capacity. He was awarded "Best M&A Deal in CEE" by the international EMEA Finance magazine for consulting on a EUR 545 m energy sector deal in Bulgaria. Julian was previously Managing Director of Raiffeisen Investment (Bulgaria). Julian has previous experience at UBS, London - Investment Banking and Fixed Income as well as at Ernst & Young, Stuttgart - Corporate Finance. Julian has also spent 3 years at KPMG’s Financial Services team. Julian is PhD in Economics. At London School of Economics Julian specialised as post-graduate in Banking. He is MBA from SIU in Germany and USA, and holds a Bachelor in Financial Management from The Buckingham University in the UK.