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Connectivity Business today announced speakers and panelists for the Investment Conference which will be held June 19 & 20 in Chicago. 

This interdisciplinary conference will address the critical financial and business issues impacting the global connectivity industry and explore opportunities in the private and public equity and debt capital markets for investment in this fast-growing sector. 

Leading experts presenting at the conference include:

Steven Sonnenstein, Managing Director, Digital Colony Partners, Digital Bridge Holdings 
Matt O'Connell, Partner, Seraphim Capital  
Hugo Wagner, Principal, New Space, Orange Silicon Valley
Katy Hunt, Senior Reporter, Connectivity Business and SatelliteFinance
Kristina Serafim, Director, Verizon Ventures (NYSE: VZ)
Guri Bath, Managing Director, Head of Telecom Infrastructure, Citi (NYSE: C)
Aaron Shourie, Esq., Special Counsel, Sheppard Mullin
Dave Davis, Managing Partner, InMotion Holdings and Chief Financial Officer, Board Member, Sun Country Airlines
Greg Ewert, President, Connected Car & Intelligent Transport Systems, Globalstar
Azad Badakhsh, Managing Director, Moelis & Company
Matt Desch, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Iridium Communications (NASDAQ: IRDM)
Steve Kaufman, Esq., Partner, Hogan Lovells
Tom Minichiello, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer & Secretary, Westell Technologies (NASDAQ: WSTL)
Vaibhav Lohiya, Director, TMT Investment Banking, Deutsche Bank
Chris Moon, Managing Director, Head of Telecom & Media Finance, ING Bank
Thierry Lefort, Consultant, PwC's Strategy&
Jason Rainbow, Editor-in-Chief, Connectivity Business and SatelliteFinance
Saumil Parikh, Senior Manager, Transaction Advisory Services,  EY
Steven Pickett, Chief Executive Officer, RigNet (NASDAQ: RNET)
Joseph Radecki, Managing Director, KPMG
Paul Posner,  Chief Executive Officer, Carnegie Technologies
Bruce Chesley, Senior Director, Strategy, The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA)
Brian Weimer, Esq., Partner, Sheppard Mullin
Dave Rehbehn, Vice President, International Division - Hughes, an EchoStar Company (NASDAQ: SATS)
Enda Hardiman, Managing Partner, Hardiman Telecommunications 
David Neumann, Chief Executive Officer, PCTEL (Nasdaq: PCTI) 
Adam Boscoe, Corporate Development, Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB)
Nic Volpi, Partner, Permira Advisers
Michelle Kley, Esq., SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR)  
Jason Tofsky, Managing Director, TMT, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Dara Panahy, Esq., Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Conference attendees will include institutional investors, venture capital firms, private equity investors, commercial bankers, economic development bankers, investment bankers, equity analysts, entrepreneurs, board members, chief executive officers, heads of strategy and corporate development, chief financial officers, general counsel, and senior corporate executives with responsibility for financing, M&A, and strategy.

Registration for the Investment Conference is open.

Connectivity Business (formerly TelecomFinance) is a trusted source for intelligence on complex transactions in the private and public equity and debt capital markets, M&A, regulatory and legal developments, and changes in corporate strategy.

For more than 25 years we have provided senior corporate executives, advisors, and capital providers with in-depth reports and exclusive forward-looking insights on the critical financial issues and trends impacting the industry.

Our coverage includes telecommunications and satellite operators and services providers, fibre networks and data centres, small cell and tower companies, technology and infrastructure equipment manufacturers, capital providers and investors in the public and private capital markets.