Prof. Ludovic Phalippou, Ph.D.

Ludovic Phalippou is Professor of Financial Economics at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he teaches asset management and private markets. He is an internationally recognized expert on private equity, private credit, and institutional investing.

Andrea Carnelli Dompe, Ph.D.

Andrea is the co-founder and CEO of Tamarix Technologies – a platform redefining how LPs monitor and manage private market portfolios through AI-native agent infrastructure.

Frédéric Docquier

As Head of the Business Control at Sofina, Frédéric Docquier focuses primarily on the valuation and monitoring process of unlisted portfolio companies. These companies range from early stage to growth equity and span diverse sectors and geographies.

Miroslav Jandečka

Managing Partner, BDO

In his professional career he focuses on tax issues in an international context, seeks for tax planning opportunities that help to legally optimize the tax position of his clients. His specialization is international double taxation, taxation of capital acquisition. He also has extensive experience in the preparation and implementation of complex business strategies, mergers of companies (management of both buy-side and sell-side engagements), financial audit and the preparation of financial statements.

He is Certified Auditor (KA ČR), Certified Tax Adviser (KDP ČR). He speaks Czech, German and English.

Dennis Jullens

Dennis Jullens is part time lecturer in Valuation & Accounting in the Finance Group at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Before joining the VU, Dennis spent four years teaching financial reporting, financial analysis and valuation at the University of Amsterdam. Dennis has taught extensively at MBA and Master level at University of Edinburgh, Business School, IE Business School Madrid, Imperial College London, Rotterdam School of Management, Warwick University, WHU Vallendar and Nijenrode Business University.

Petr Koblic

Petr Koblic, began his career in investment banking banking in 1993. He served on middle management level and later top management level in number of domestic and international investment banks.

Rafaël Le Saux, CFA, CAIA, CFM, CVA, ABV

• Rafaël leads the Valuation & Modelling Advisory Services offering within PwC Deals & Strategy Luxembourg and has 16 years of relevant valuation and modelling experience.
• Prior to joining PwC, Rafaël was Conducting Officer Valuation for Partners Group’s AIFM, one of the largest in-house AIFMs in Luxembourg as well as standing member of all four asset-class specific Global Valuation Committees (i.e. PE, PD, Real Estate and Infrastructure) overseeing USD 120b of AUM. He also worked for over nine years within the Valuation and Modelling department of another large professional services firm, across France, Australia and Chile. Additionally, Rafaël worked as an Associate Director at a niche infrastructure fund, specializing in Public Private Partnerships in developed economies.
• Furthermore, Rafaël is vice-chairman of Luxembourg Valuation Professionals Association (LVPA) and co-leads LVPA Technical Working Group.
• Rafaël will join the IVSC Financial Instruments Technical Board from May 2026. He is also an Advisory Board Member at EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute and a Member of the Financial Modeling Global Leaders Council. 
• He has lectured valuation related subjects in ten different business schools including EMLyon, Grenoble EM, Neoma, Université du Luxembourg, and Luxembourg School of Business. Rafael is also a frequent speaker at industry events, and he had published articles and book chapters on valuation.

Jan Marek, CFA

Jan is a Managing Partner at European Valuation Institute (EVI). 

Prior to founding EVI, Jan served as a Partner at Deloitte, where he led the Valuation and Financial Modelling team for Central and Eastern Europe. Jan has more than 20 years of experience in business and asset valuation, dispute advisory, financial modelling, transfer pricing analysis, competition economics, and other financial analyses.

Petra Mudrochová

Petra Mudrochová brings more than ten years of experience in M&A, spanning both advisory and private equity. She began her career at Deloitte, where she was involved in nearly one hundred financial due diligence projects, including 3.5 years in the Amsterdam office, in a market where deal flow never sleeps.

Wolfgang Kniest, CVA

• Managing director and co-founder of the European Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (EACVA), the European Chapter of GACVA.
• Chief editor of the quarterly published business valuation journals BewertungsPraktiker (since 2005) and European Business Valuation Magazine EBVM (since 2022).
• Many years of teaching experience on business valuation at the University of Applied Science Erfurt and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Jiří Urban, CVP, FCCA

Jiří is a Partner at European Valuation Institute (EVI).

Prior to joining the firm, he was a Director at KPMG, where he led the Disputes Advisory practice for Central and Eastern Europe. He holds the Luxembourg Certified Valuation Professional (CVP) accreditation.