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Nick Tesseyman, Business Group Director, Financial Institutions and Private Equity

Nick Tesseyman is the Business Group Director in charge of the Financial Institutions sector at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Nick started his career at Barclays Bank in London and originally joined the EBRD from Shorebank in 1996 to develop the Russia Small Business Fund and other small business lending programmes. In 2000 he moved to Moscow and was appointed Deputy Director for Financial Institutions Russia. Nick left EBRD in 2006 to join Merrill Lynch, where he was a Director in the Investment Banking department, responsible for bank relationships and M&A activity in Russia and the CIS. He rejoined the EBRD in August 2008 in his current role.

Nick is a UK national and graduated from Oxford University.