Connectivity Business Investment Conference to be held in New York
The annual Connectivity Business Investment Conference will begin on Wednesday June 26, 2019 at 55 Hudson Yards in New York.
The prestigious forum will explore the critical strategic and financial issues impacting private and public equity and debt capital investments across the rapidly evolving broadband infrastructure industry.
The programme will consider a number of communications infrastructure segments including 5G technologies / spectrum, fibre networks, macro cell towers, data centres, small cell networks, IoT applications, LEO constellations, smallsats, and high-altitude platforms, and other communications infrastructure.
Conference co-chair Charles Leger said, “The global forum will advance the investment community’s understanding of the opportunities and challenges in the pursuit of appropriate returns on invested capital from the connectivity industry.”
SELECT CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
- Beth Michelson - Senior Managing Director, Cartesian Capital Group
- Will Porteous - General Partner & Chief Operating Officer, RRE Ventures
- Jason Tofsky - Managing Director, TMT, Goldman Sachs & Co.
- Elizabeth Evans - Partner, Reed Smith
- Steven Sonnenstein - Managing Director, Digital Colony, Digital Bridge Holdings
- Gabriele Cambriglia - Executive Director, Media & Communications, J.P. Morgan
- Jon Cobin - Executive Vice President, Corporate Development & Chief Strategy Officer, Gogo
- Arunas Slekys - Vice President, Hughes Network Systems, EchoStar
- Craig Barner - Senior Financial Journalist, Finance Information Group
- Haynes Griffin - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, SmartSky Networks
- Steve Kaufman - Partner, Hogan Lovells
- R. Clayton Funk - Managing Director, Towers Group, MVP Capital
- Chris Moon - Managing Director, Head of Telecom & Media Finance, ING
- Rudi Stuetzle - Senior Vice President, Infrastructure Debt, MR Infrastructure
- Dara Panahy - Partner, Milbank
- Mark Wong - Chief Financial Officer, Kacific Broadband Satellites
- Jason Rainbow - Group Editor-in-Chief, Finance Information Group
- Sasha Field - Deputy General Counsel, Omnispace
- Ben Gris - Partner, Shearman & Sterling
- William Jefferson Black - Managing Director, Finance Information Group
- PJ Beylier - Chief Executive Officer, SpeedCast
- Todd Crick - Co-Founder, Astra Capital Management
- Brian Holz - Chief Architect, Akash Systems
- Zac Smith - Chief Executive Officer, Packet
- Scott Wilcoxen - Executive Director, Media & Communications, J.P. Morgan
- Brian Weimer - Partner, Head of Communications Practice, Sheppard Mullin
- Brian Barnell - Managing Director, Q Advisors
- Bob Quinn - Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer
- Vivek Stalam - Associate, Equity Research, US Communication Services, New Street Research
- Ryan Lepene - Co-President, Peppertree Capital Management
- Vaibhav Lohiya - Managing Director, TMT Investment Banking, Deutsche Bank
- Robert Paige - Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, Vertical Bridge
- Nic Volpi - Partner, Permira
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The Connectivity Business Investment Conference is designed for institutional investors, venture capital and private equity investors, investment analysts, commercial bankers, economic development bankers, investment bankers, senior legal advisors, entrepreneurs, board members, CEOs, heads of strategy and corporate development, CFOs, general counsel, and senior corporate executives with responsibility for financing, M&A, and strategy.
Jason Rainbow is Group Editor-in-Chief of Finance Information Group, which provides perspective and information on M&A, financing, and corporate strategy through educational conferences and unique financial publications including Connectivity Business (formerly SatelliteFinance and TelecomFinance) and Transaction Advisors.