Julian Gikov
Raiffeisen Bank International AG
Executive Director
Julian Gikov is Executive Director responsible for SEE region Mergers & Acquisitions advisory activities as well as for CEE Infrastructure M&A advisory of Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Vienna. He is also CEO of Raiffeisen Advisory - the bank’s M&A advisory house in Bulgaria.
He has been involved in deal advisory on numerous international M&A transactions in broad range of industries over the past 20 years in the CEE region. Julian was awarded "Best M&A Deal in CEE" by the international EMEA Finance magazine for consulting on a EUR 545 m deal in Bulgaria.
Julian was previously Managing Director of Raiffeisen Investment (Bulgaria). Julian has previous experience at UBS, London - Investment Banking and Fixed Income as well as at Ernst & Young, Stuttgart - Corporate Finance. Julian has also spent 3 years at KPMG’s Financial Services team.
Julian is PhD in Economics. At London School of Economics Julian specialised as post-graduate in Banking. He is MBA from SIU in Germany and USA, and holds a Bachelor in Financial Management from The Buckingham University in the UK.
Across the entrepreneurial ecosystem, Julian has been successfully supporting various fundraising, transformation, and business growth advisory initiatives.