AECM - Key Persons

Felicia, who has the Moldavian and Romanian nationality, studied European Law at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania, as well as Political Science at Bologna University, Italy. She complemented her professional profile with a traineeship at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, and used to work for the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova. At AECM, Felicia is responsible for Agriculture, State Aid and Structural Funds policy dossiers including the responsibilities for the corresponding AECM working groups. Next to her mother tongue Romanian, Felicia also speaks English, French, Italian and Russian.

Felix Haas Vinçon

Job Titles:

Director

Felix holds a master's degree of Strasbourg University in Economics and European Policies. He has been working in project finance and in the EU political representation of small and medium-sized enterprises. Before joining AECM, he was working for the German AECM-member VDB as a permanent representative to the EU. At AECM, Felix is responsible for EU Financial Instruments, SME Policy, Regulatory issues, Sustainability Policies as well as Statistics and Impact. Besides his mother tongue German, he speaks English, French and Italian.

Friedrich SCHÜTT

Job Titles:

Member of the Board

Gilbert CAIRE

Job Titles:

Member of the Board

Giovanni CANEVELLO

Job Titles:

Member of the Board

Giuseppe Gramigna

gi..@aecm.eu

Job Titles:

Senior Adviser to the Board of Directors

Giuseppe's work focuses on advising national, multilateral and non- profit entities on how to best assist SMEs. His area of expertise includes: (i) national SME policies, (ii) SME assistance programs, (iii) program benchmarking, performance and impact evaluations, (iv) credit risk monitoring and evaluation, and (v) portfolio and partner risk management. Giuseppe works with international organizations such as the AECM, the World Bank, and the IFC SME Finance Forum. He lectures at several academic institutions, and severs on scientific committees of several publications. In the past he has worked with the OECD, the APEC, and the ASEAN. At the U.S. Small Business Administration Giuseppe served as the Agency's Chief Economist, where he advised the Agency on economic trends affecting small businesses, and led research on economic impact evaluations and strategic planning. He served as the Chair of the interagency subcommittee on Evaluating Business Technical Assistance Programs (E-BTAP), a group responsible for developing best practices for implementing economic impact evaluations within the U.S. Federal government. He also served as the U.S. Permanent Delegate and Vice Chair to the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship. Before joining the U.S. Small Business Administration, Giuseppe headed the consulting firm DASSI Corp. His other areas of interest include the natural resource sectors, construction industries, tourism, and regional economic development. Giuseppe earned a BA in economics from The State University of New York at Purchase, and a graduate degree in economics from The New School For Social Research.

Guido VERHAEGEN - President

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
President

Guy Selbherr

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
Board Members
CEO Germany MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden - Württemberg GmbH

Guy Selbherr is member of the board of the guarantee bank of the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bürgschaftsbank Baden-Württemberg GmbH and CEO of the SME-oriented investment company MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg GmbH. Guy was born in 1965. He trained as lending officer at a co-operative bank. Later he studied business and administration. In 1992 he started working at the guarantee bank of the federal state of Baden- Wuerttemberg, the Bürgschaftsbank Baden-Württemberg. He then became executive assistant. In 2004 he was elected member of the board of directors. At the same time, he became CEO of the SME-oriented investment company MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg. In June 2014 he was elected President of the association of German guarantee banks VDB, Verband Deutscher Bürgschaftsbanken, in Berlin, mandate that has been renewed in 2017.

Halina WISNIEWSKA

Job Titles:

Member of the Board

Halina Wiśniewska

Job Titles:

Member of the Board

Hans-Herbert STROMBECK - President

Job Titles:

President

Helmut DORN

Job Titles:

Member of the Board

Inabat TÖRÖK

Job Titles:

Member of the Board

Inga BALZEKAITE

Job Titles:

Member of the Board

Italo CALEGARI - President

Job Titles:

President

Jean-Louis Leloir

je..@aecm.eu

Job Titles:

Special Adviser to the Board of Directors

Jean-Louis Leloir graduated from the French High Business School ESCP in 1975. He has filled over a period of 40 years various management responsibilities, mostly in the field of loan guarantee schemes, in the French public development institution supporting SME financing, called Bpifrance (formerly OSEO), which is a leading benchmark in the area of public guarantee schemes.Formerly Area Manager, then Credit Department Manager and Chief Auditor, he was for 12 years Head of Technical Assistance and Consulting, addressing acquired expertise to foreign guarantee institutions, in assignments from Donors and International Institutions (World Bank Group, AFD, OECD, and European Commission). His missions took place in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Djibouti, Madagascar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Belgium, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Latvia. Since 2015 he is Special Adviser to the Board of Directors of the European Association of Guarantee Institutions.

Jiří Jirasek

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
Czechia AECM Member of the Board, NRB

José Fernando FIGUEIREDO - President

Job Titles:

President

José FURTADO

Job Titles:

Member of the Board

Jēkabs Krieviņš

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
Latvia AECM Member of the Board, ALTUM

Katrin Sturm

ka..@aecm.eu

Job Titles:

Secretary General

Katrin has been working in Brussels since 2001. At AECM since November 2013, Katrin has worked for the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), for the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV) as well as for the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts and Small Businesses (ZDH) being at the same time the EU Representative of the Association of German Guarantee Banks (VDB). She graduated from the University of Passau (Germany) in Law, was at the University of Angers (France) for the Erasmus project, then passed the second state exam in law in Potsdam (Germany), and finally acquired a Master of Law from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). Next to her mother tongue German Katrin speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish, understands Dutch and reads Portuguese. Katrin is Honorary Consultant of Taiwan SMEG, a credit guarantee institution specialized in supporting SMEs in Taiwan in getting access to finance. She is married and has three children.