January 30, 2025 | London
The judging panel is comprised of highly experienced and internationally respected telecoms, media and technology industry, finance and advisory professionals. They provide robust scrutiny of awards nominations, and assess and grade all nominations taking into account their expertise and relevance to the latest market conditions and opportunities.
2023 Judges Panel
Managing Director European Infrastructure
KKR
Cristina González (London) joined KKR in 2014 and is a Managing Director on the European Infrastructure team. At KKR, Ms. González has been actively involved in a number of investments including Deutsche Glasfaser, Telxius, Hivory, Hyperoptic, Open Dutch Fiber, Vantage Towers as well as the sale of Coriance. Prior to joining KKR, she was a senior vice president with Macquarie Group in their real assets funds division based in London. Ms. González started her career at Goldman Sachs International within their investment banking division based both in London and Madrid where she was involved in a range of mergers, acquisitions and divestments across various industries and geographies. She currently serves as a member of the board at Hyperoptic and Open Dutch Fiber and previously served as board member of Telxius, Hivory, Deutsche Glasfaser, Coriance and Acciona. Ms. González holds a Masters in Management and Finance as well as a Masters in Law both from ICADE (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid).
Managing Director, Head of Europe
DigitalBridge
Matt Evans is a Managing Director, Head of Europe at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Mr. Evans is based in London and focuses on European Investments and opportunities. He is an accomplished and a highly experienced global infrastructure investor, bringing more than two decades of relevant industry and transaction expertise to DigitalBridge.
Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Mr. Evans served as Global Head of Digital Infrastructure, Co-Head of Origination and Co-Head of Europe at AMP Capital. During his tenure, he was responsible for the firm's successful investments including Axion, Expedient, Everstream Solutions, eNet and Towercom. Before joining AMP Capital in 2013, Mr. Evans spent 14 years at Macquarie Capital Advisors in various roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as Managing Director of the Telecoms, Media, Entertainment and Technology Group in EMEA.
Mr. Evans has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
Global Technology, Media and Entertainment, and Telecommunications Sector Leader
EY-Parthenon
Olivier is the Global Leader for the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector (TMT) at EY-Parthenon, the strategy consulting arm of EY.
He has advised TMT C-Suite corporate clients and private equity funds in the for more than 25 years. He has extensive international experience in growth strategy, commercial due diligence, market analysis, business plan development, synergy evaluation and post-acquisition strategy.
He has advised a wide range of TMT clients such as BT, Sony, Ericsson, RELX, OVH, WPP plc, Phillips, Channel 4 as well as for Private Equity funds such as KKR, Hg Capital, Carlyle, Macquarie, Apax Partners, Digital Bridge and Bain Capital.
Olivier is a respected industry commentator in the TMT sector, having appeared on TV and industry conferences, as well as being quoted in print media such as FT and TMT Finance.
Olivier has a degree in Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris and an MBA from INSEAD in France.
Managing Director, Head of EMEA Technology Investment Banking
Citi
Investment Director
Infravia Capital Partners
Zeynep joined the Infrastructure investment team in 2016 and sits on its investment committee. With a strong M&A and project finance background, Zeynep focuses on origination and execution of transactions in particular in the telecom, renewables and education sectors. She currently serves on the board of several portfolio companies. Previously, Zeynep worked at KPMG Corporate Finance in Paris as financial advisor in the Global Infrastructure and Projects Group.
Managing Director, Head TMT, EMEA,
Barclays Investment Banking
Alex Evans is a Managing Director and Co-Head of TMT, EMEA at Barclays, with over 20 years of corporate finance experience. Alex has a significant track record of dealing with a broad range of M&A, equity and debt raising transactions for clients such as Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Telenor, TeliaSonera, Iliad, Cellnex, Vimpelcom, Turk Telekom, MTS, Megafon, MTN and Vodacom.
Practice Group Head, Digital Economy Transactions
Ashurst LLP
Nick Elverston is head of Ashurst's Digital Economy Transactions group. He has 25 years of experience (including six months working in Tokyo and eight months working in Paris) providing cross-border legal advice to clients in the TMT sector and, more recently, in the wider digital economy. Clients include telecoms and media companies, vendors and banks operating in the TMT sector. He has advised on a range of high-profile telecommunication transactions across the globe, including roll-out of new services, network shares, joint ventures, acquisitions and disposals, as well as providing the sector input on financings and disputes.
Nick is recognised as a leader in his field for both legal and industry knowledge. His practice has taken him across the globe with clients and deals spanning Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He is bi-lingual in English and French and fluent in Japanese. Ashurst has developed a special focus on the TMT sector and the changes being brought about by the increasing importance of the Digital Economy. Members of the digital economy practice are active across the firm's footprint.
Nick is recognised in the Hall of Fame for IT and Telecoms by Legal 500 UK 2024, ranked in Band 1 for Telecommunications by Chambers and Partners UK 2024 and has been peer selected as one of the top TMT practitioners by Euromoney in the 'Best of the Best' Expert Guide 2020.
Senior Partner Global TMT
Roland Berger
Michael Knott is a London-based Senior Partner in the global Telecoms, Media, and Technology (TMT) practice. Michael has 30 years of TMT experience and 22 years as a Partner.
Michael has extensive history with providing investor transaction support as well as leading strategy, performance improvement, and business transformation engagements for corporations across the TMT sector.
Michael began his career in TMT in the early '90s working for a multinational telecommunications holding company in the pricing strategy field. Later he held leadership roles in a number of consulting firms, driving both organic and inorganic value accretion for his TMT clients across EMEA.
Michael holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario Canada as well as a MBA from London Business School.
Co-Founding Partner
PMP Strategy
Frédéric Jover is one of the co-founders of PMP Strategy. Under his leadership with his partners, PMP Strategy has become in the past 20 years, one of the leading advisory firms for telecoms operators and infrastructure funds (with over 150 consultants in Europe, North America and the Middle East). Frédéric is also the co-leader of PMP Strategy's infrastructure M&A practice.
Frédéric has been a strategy advisor to the TMT sector for over 30 years. He works with both corporate clients and investment funds. In recent years, he has provided support to dozens of European, North American and Australian infrastructure funds on the purchase, sale or value creation plans of FttP networks, telecom towers, data centers, B2B backbones and submarine cables. He also advises CXOs in the TMT sector on their growth strategy, performance improvements, cost reduction, carve-outs and integration plans.
Frédéric has a master's degree in finance
Managing Director & Global Head of Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking
Nomura Greentech
Andrei Milekhin is a Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking at Nomura Greentech based in London. Andrei focuses on a variety of digital infrastructure and telecommunications markets and businesses globally and in Europe, in particular
Andrei joined Nomura in July 2016 following two years at VimpelCom (now Veon) in Amsterdam, where he was responsible for origination / execution of M&A transactions as well as spearheading the efforts with respect to defining portfolio strategy for the Group. Prior to joining VimpelCom, Andrei was a Director in the TMT Investment Banking team at UBS in London
Notable recent transactions include advising PGGM and EDF Invest on acquisition of a minority stake in Norlys Tele in Denmark, GIC on acquisition of a minority stake in CETIN, Ardian on acquisition of Adamo in Spain, Allianz Capital Partners on acquisition of a minority stake in American Tower Europe (c.€1bn) and a 50/50 partnership with Telefonica to roll-out FTTH network in rural Germany (€5bn), as well as sale of Towertel to Phoenix Tower International and sale of Retelit to Asterion Industrial Partners (c.€700m)
Andrei holds a degree in Economics from Moscow State University for International Relations (MGIMO)
Senior Managing Director
Guggenheim Partners
Pieter-Jan (PJ) Bouten is a senior managing director for Guggenheim Partners in the firm’s London office. He joined Guggenheim in 2023 to develop their European business. Prior to Guggenheim, he was the Global Head of Telecom and Digital Infrastructure at Greenhill, having joined in 2001.
Managing Director European Infrastructure
KKR
Managing Director, Head of Europe
DigitalBridge
Global Vice Chair, Private Equity
Paul Hastings
Global Technology, Media and Entertainment, and Telecommunications Sector Leader
EY-Parthenon
Managing Director, Head of EMEA Technology Investment Banking
Citi
Investment Director
Infravia Capital Partners
Managing Director, Head TMT, EMEA,
Barclays Investment Banking
Managing Director, Global Head of Coverage and Global Head of TMT Investment Banking
UBS
Senior Managing Director
Evercore
Global Co-Head - TMT
SGCIB
Chair TMC Global Sector Group
CMS UK
Partner
Clifford Chance
Partner
Altman Solon
Managing Partner
Hardiman Telecommunications Ltd.
Practice Group Head, Digital Economy Transactions
Ashurst LLP
Senior Partner Global TMT
Roland Berger
Co-Founding Partner
PMP Strategy
Managing Director
William Blair
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Managing Director & Global Head of Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking
Nomura Greentech
Managing Director
DC Advisory
Senior Managing Director
Guggenheim Partners
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