Howard Golden (Chairman)
Mr. Golden has been investing in international markets since 1978 and from 2002 has served as President of Terra Partners, which has over US$130m of assets under management. He was President of The Brookdale Group, a New York-based money management firm, from 1991 to 2002, and has specialised in Central and East European markets since 1995. Mr Golden has served as chairman of several investment funds, and in additon to serving on the Board of RC2 is chairman of the board of the Romanian Investment Fund and is on the boards of two Vietnam funds listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Franklin P. Johnson
Mr. Johnson was a pioneer venture capitalist in 1962 as co-founder of Draper and Johnson Investment Company and in 1965 he founded Asset Management Company in Palo Alto. Asset Management Company presently manages two active venture funds, AMP and AMP 2004. Mr Johnson was a founding director of Capital S.A. in Romania (now renamed EFG Eurobank Finance S.A.), and has been active in international venture capital in several countries, including the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. He is currently a director of three private companies in the US.
Markus Winkler
Mr. Winkler has over 33 years experience in the investment management business. He is the founder and President of Vermögensverwaltung-Gesellschaft Zurich, an asset management company which he established in 1973. Mr Winkler is a founder member of the Swiss Association of Asset Managers and has been a member of the Ethics Committee since 1990. He is also a founder and board member of the Swiss Investors’ Association. Mr Winkler is a director of several investment funds including Reconstruction Capital Pcl, the Charlemagne Capital Russia Value Fund, Discover Investment Company and the PXP Vietnam Fund.
Dirk Van den Broeck
Mr. Dirk Van den Broeck is an Executive Director of Petercam S.A., a Belgian investment bank. He has been a Director of the firm since 1988 and Managing Director since 1994 and is currently responsible for the real estate and private equity activities of the firm. He started his career at Petercam in 1982 and was registered as an Agent de Change in 1989. Mr. Van den Broeck is also the Managing Director of a number of SPV's managed by Petercam’s private equity team and a board member of several Belgian and international companies. Holding dual degrees in law and economics from the University of Louvain, Dirk is a member of the Board of BeAMA (the Belgian Association of Asset Managers) and of Febelfin.
Ion Florescu
Mr. Florescu is the founder of Reconstruction Capital Plc (RC1) and RC2 and has over 20 years experience in corporate finance and private equity, most of which in South East Europe. Ion started his career at Schroders (now part of Citigroup) in the City of London and then joined Charterhouse Bank (now part of HSBC). In 1995 he moved to Romania to head Capital S.A. (now renamed EFG Eurobank Finance S.A.)
, an investment bank set up by Wasserstein Perella, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asset Management Partners, and a group of Romanian investors to channel investment into the newly-born private sector in Romania. In 1997, he founded his first fund RC1 which was dedicated to investing and restructuring newly-privatized companies in Romania. In 2001 he took over the investment advisory mandates for the SG Romania Fund and the Romanian Investment Fund Limited. In 2005, he founded RC2. Ion Florescu has led various restructuring programmes at Romanian and Bulgarian companies, and engineered a number of successful exits. He is now the Chairman of Policolor, the largest paints producer in Romania and Bulagaria, and sits on the boards of East Point Holdings, Helogistics Holding GmbH, Romar and Top Factoring. A British and Romanian citizen, Ion was educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University. Ion is fluent in Romanian, English, French and Italian and has co-authored a CBI book entitled Making a success of JV’s in Eastern Europe.