Managing Director, ATZ Management Ltd, Great Britain
Biography
Andrey is an investment manager with Amadeus. Since joining the firm in 2003, he has worked on a number of investments and has sat on the board of several portfolio companies as a non-executive director or observer. These include: Openbravo, a developer of open source software for business management; TeraView, a terahertz instrumentation company; and Solexa, which developed ultra-high throughput DNA sequencing technology and was acquired by Illumina in 2007; Staccato, a company delivering wireless USB chipsets; and Valista, a software company providing payments and offer management software to wireless and fixed line operators and ISPs. Prior to joining Amadeus, Andrey gained substantial international experience in technology start-ups. His previous roles were predominantly commercial positions in software and telecommunications sectors in such companies as: Scala Business Solutions, a multinational business software company; PanTel Telecom, the eastern European subsidiary of KPN; and Nextra, an internet division of Telenor. Andrey started his career at Baltic Communications, a Russian subsidiary of Cable & Wireless. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MSc in Computer Science from the Air-Space Instruments University in Russia. A Russian native, Andrey is fluent in Russian and English and speaks basic Hungarian.
Presentations
Annual Business Leaders Investment Forum
«INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS» 30 - 31 March 2011 Saint-Petersburg
Finance Sources for Innovation Projects Overview
Third Annual Business Leaders Investment Forum "INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS" 22 - 23 July 2010 Moscow region
Different Finance Sources of the Innovation Projects
Case Study
Video
Third Annual Business Leaders Investment Forum "INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS" 22 - 23 July 2010 Moscow region
Case Study: Andrey Kessel – InvestManager Amadeus Capital Fund, UK.
Third Annual Business Leaders Investment Forum "INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS" 22 - 23 July 2010 Moscow region
Different Finance Sources of the Innovation Projects: Andrey Kessel, Invest-Manager, Amadeus Capital, Great Britain.
Annual Business Leaders Investment Forum
«INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS» 30 - 31 March 2011 Saint-Petersburg
Andrey Kessel: Finance Sources for Innovation Projects Overview.