Bio

Heinrich Pecina is the founder and Senior Partner of VCP: He has decades of experience as a board member responsible for developing investment banking activities and entering new markets. Since establishing VCP in 1998, Heinrich has personally initiated and arranged the successful closing of many of milestone transactions. From 1990 to 1998, he was responsible for developing Creditanstalt Investment Bank (CAIB) from a newly established investment bank into one of the leading and best-known players in Central and Eastern Europe during that time. As Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board of CAIB, he was responsible for corporate finance, project finance and fund management. In addition, he was in charge of the successful initiation, and profitable development, of investment banking activities in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Russia. Heinrich studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is fluent in English and German, and has a working knowledge of Russian and French.