Roland Bellegarde is head of European cash trading and listing for NYSE Euronext, one of the world's largest and most diversified exchange groups. In this role, he oversees primary and secondary market activity for equities, bonds, ETFs, funds, warrants and certificates. Roland has been at the forefront of the transformation of the stock exchange industry.

He led the automation of the Bourse de Paris and played a leading role in merging the French derivatives and cash markets.By spearheading the implementation of a single platform and rule book, he was central to the development of Europe's first pan-European market, Euronext, created through the merger with the Dutch, Belgian and Portuguese stock exchanges. Following the merger between NYSE and Euronext in 2007, he was appointed to the Management Committee and named Group EVP. He is chairman of Smartpool, as well as member of the board of the Qatar Exchange.

He was recently appointed to ESMA's Securities Markets Stakeholder Group. Roland holds an advanced studies degree in Economics, Finance and Banking from the Sorbonne, University in Paris.

Stephan Hollander is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Tilburg University. He holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from Tilburg University.

His research focuses on corporate disclosures and the role of informational intermediaries (e.g., financial analysts, auditors, and the press) in debt and equity markets.

His work is published in Journal of Accounting Research.

Hans Buysse is a partner of Syncap, based in Brussels. He has more than 15 years banking and corporate finance experience. This includes buy side and sell side assignments, as well as MBO and IBO, within the energy & utilities sector, telecom, real estate and infrastructure. He also has extensive experience in structured finance, financial restructuring, strategic advisory, valuations and PPP. He was involved in most large Belgian PPP deals.

He started his career at KU Leuven, moved to Generale Bank in 1992 (Corporate Banking, Group Treasury (financial markets) and Central Credit Department). He cofounded the Corporate Finance division at Deloitte & Touche Belgium in 1997, worked as a partner for KPMG Corporate Finance up to 2007 and at NIBC Bank Belgium where he was head of Advisory. Hans presides the Belgian Association of Financial Analysts (www.abaf-bvfa.be). He is EFFAS Executive Management Committee member since (www.effas.org) and XBRL Europe Executive Committee member. He is also member of the ESMA Corporate Reporting Standing Committee's Consultative Working Group (www.esma.europa.eu).

He holds a master degree in Applied economics, specialized in finance, a master degree in management and a degree in Tax. He is a Certified European Financial Analyst (FSA accredited).

Wim Allegaert graduated from KUL Leuven in 1992. The next year he obtained his MBA in a combined program at ESSEC (Paris) and KUL.

Wim started his professional career with the KBC Group, where he held major responsabilities in the Asset Management department. In 2008 he was appointed General Manager of KBC Asset Management.

Since June 2010 Wim Allegaert is the Director Investor Relations of KBC Group and a board member of the BIRA.

Geoffroy Raskin heads Umicore's investor relations department since 2009. He graduated as an electronics engineer from the University of Ghent in 1995 and postgraduated in biomedical engineering three years later. Prior to joining Umicore he worked in the biomedical and space engineering field.

His Umicore career started in 2001 as a manager in process, product and application development at the Electro-Optic Materials business unit in Olen, Belgium, with partial collocation in Boston, US.

He joined the investor relations department in Brussels, Belgium, in 2005, and obtained the international investment analyst certification (CIIA) in 2007.

Jeroen Leenaers joined Imtech in January 2008 as Head of Investor Relations. He turned Imtech’s IR policy from a reactive approach into a proactive approach. The result of this change of approach was doubling the liquidity of the share (while the market showed a strong decrease of the liquidity) and a wider spread of Imtech’s shareholder base.

Since 2010, Jeroen is also a member of Imtech’s CSR Council to develop and implement a group strategy for CSR. Before joining Imtech, since 2001, Jeroen was Head of Economic Department at the Dutch Shareholders’ Association VEB with a focus on corporate strategy and corporate valuations for IPO’s, delistings and M&A. Jeroen was also involved in  major cases at the VEB like Ahold, Unilever preference shares, the legal merger of Royal Dutch and Shell Group into Royal Dutch Shell, the takeover of ABN Amro and KPNQwest. In 1996, Jeroen started his career at Van Lawick & Co, a small financial boutique in Rotterdam/The Hague, as a consultant for mergers and acquisitions for five years. Since 2009, Jeroen is a board member of the Dutch IR association NEVIR. Jeroen studied financial economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

Nuno Vieira is the Investor Relations Director at Portugal Telecom SGPS S.A. He holds this position since April 2008. Prior to working at PT he was an equity analyst at Millennium investment banking between 2000 and 2007 and also held various positions in the telecoms industry.

Nuno Vieira holds an engineering degree, by Instituto Superior Técnico, a MBA by Universidade Católica Portuguesa and is a CFA charter holder. Nuno Vieira has been ranked several times as an IR professional at the Institutional Investor, European equities survey, including best IR professional by the sell side and by the buy side in the telecommunications sector and in Portugal.

In January 2006, Luc Van Der Elst joined Bank Delen, one of the leading independent Belgian Private Banks. Their assets under management have grown to some EUR 16 bn. Bank Delen is 79% controlled by the listed Investment Company Ackermans & van Haaren. At Bank Delen, Luc is an advisor to the teams of Portfolio and Fund Managers on (des)investment opportunities in Europe with a focus on the Belgian stock market and individual European industrial stocks. For many years, he has contributed to publications and stock market presentations for the VFB, the organisation of Flemish Investment Clubs and Investors, with which he has always kept close contacts.

Luc has occasionally contributed to publications in the financial press (Tijd and Echo), representing Bank Delen’s or Fortis Bank’s Belgian research team or representing the Belgian Association of Financial Analysts (ABAF – BVFA, of which he is vice-president) on topics related to financial analysis and/or stock valuations. In addition, he has occasionally given courses on company valuations and financial analysis at ao. Brussels-based business schools Ehsal and Vlekho.

Chris Hollis has been the head of Financial Communications at LVMH since the end of 2000. Chris joined LVMH after 15 years in the oil industry, where he worked for Elf Aquitaine in various financial posts in London, Paris (2 years as a contract negotiator), Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei (5 years as Finance Director of an Exploration subsidiary) and finally in New York (5 years in investor relations).

Chris was a board member of the National Investor Relations Institute's New York chapter between 1996 and 2000 and has been vice president of the French investor relations society, CLIFF, since June 2007.

Chris has an honours degree in Law, Economics and Politics from Buckingham University and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Philippe Kubisa, partner at the Capital Markets & Accounting Advisory Services Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Philippe joined PwC in Paris in 1994. He spent four years in the United States dealing mainly with US listed companies.

Philippe provides a full array of services to companies entering the capital markets and through conversion of their financial reporting to IFRS and or US GAAP. He leads the "Financial Communication department" at PwC and is the PwC representative at Observatoire de la Communication Financières ("OCF").

Philippe is Expert-Comptable, Commissaire aux comptes, Certified Public Accountant and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountant ("AICPA").

Vincent Gouley is founder and CEO of Watchowah, a start up company which has developed an innovative business intelligence solution for investor relations. After starting his career as a financial analyst at Oddo, Vincent, 40 years, went on to head investor relations, first at Wanadoo in 2001 then at PagesJaunes Groupe in 2004.

During these years Vincent has shown a keen interest in research in economics and finance and has kept up to date on developments. In particular, he has become particularly interested in behavioural finance, a new branch of research in the field of economics, and in which he identified an opportunity to understand better the decision making processes of investors. It is on the basis of the principles of behavioural finance that Vincent has created an innovative business intelligence solution intended for investor relation professionals.

Vincent graduated from the University of Toulouse and has a Masters in Finance from the Business School of Lyons.

Tim Stiers is Research Coordinator for KBC Asset Management. After working for four years as an analyst for KBC AM covering the telecom and media sector he is now responsable for coordinating the efforts of the KBC AM financial analyst team. This includes setting methodologies, selecting areas of interest and overseeing valuation work.

He graduated from the Universiteit Hasselt as a Commercial Engineer and holds a Master's degree in Accountancy from the KUL. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Dirk-Jan Dirksen: senior portfolio manager at Delta Lloyd Asset Management, who has a history investing in information technology, media and telecom since 1994.

After graduating from Tilburg University in 1993 he started his carreer as an investment advisor and private banker in the Rabobank Group.

He joined Delta Lloyd Asset Management in 2001 where he took responsibility for the thematic technology investment portfolios. He is currently the portfolio manager of the Delta Lloyd (L) Technology Trends Fund and a member of the Global Thematic Equity Team.

José Tijssen has more than twenty years of experience in the fields of investor relations, corporate communications and corporate governance.She was selected best M&A PR officer in the Netherlands in both 2008 and 2009. An experienced boardroom coach in the area of reputation management, José has managed multiple corporate stakeholder positionings, M&A and integration programmes and crisis management projects.

Before joining Citigate First Financial, she was Director Corporate Communications for ING Group. Prior to this she was Head of Investor Relations at KPN, responsible for communication relating to the IPO, the demerger of the Mail division, foreign listings and several other projects. Before joining KPN she worked as IR manager at Wolters Kluwer. Her career began at the international corporate banking division of ABN AMRO after finishing the Business School of Management at the Erasmus University.

Katrin Leksa is an executive advisor in CEB’s Finance practice supporting CFO's, IRO's and senior finance executives. Prior to joining the Finance practice, Katrin spent six years in CEB's European Legal & Compliance Practice, responsible for new business development across Europe and South Africa.

Katrin received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University, North Carolina and speaks fluent German.

Michel Hülters is an investor relations consultant. Michel's career combines 20 years experience in the financial services sector including treasury, investor relations and asset management. Michel started his career at the treasury department of AEGON in 2002. His responsibilities included the Group's cash and currency (risk) management. In 2006 he became sales manager of ABNAMRO bank's Global Clients Team, responsible for foreign exchange and money market products. He was appointed Business Manager Global Foreign Exchange in 2000.

Michel rejoined AEGON in 2002 to become Head of Investor Relations. He moved on to AEGON's asset management business in 2007. In his final position at AEGON Michel was European Head of Institutional Sales at AEGON Asset Management.
Michel graduated at The Hague Business School and holds a MBA from Nyenrode University and Rochester University, New York (with honors). Michel is a Certified European Financial Analyst.

Steven Zietsman is a Senior Manager in the Insurance Domain of Oliver
Wyman's London office. He has over ten years experience working with major financial institutions in Europe, the US, Asia and Africa. He works with senior management at insurers as well as regulators and industry bodies on numerous Solvency II topics,
assisting them understand the impact the change in regulations will have on insurance business and how they can implement the
changes in their business.

He regularly engages with the industry and supervisors on a wide range of financial effectiveness topics. Steven writes regularly on a number of industry topics, including a recent report on Solvency II titled "Solvency II: The Long and Winding Road". Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Steven worked in a variety of roles in the insurance industry in South Africa.