The title of his talk is "The Life Cycles of IPOs"

Michael Proskin is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in New York. He has responsibility in the Global Markets Solutions Group for heading up the Bank's equity capital markets origination efforts in the power and renewables, media and telecommunications, andchemicals sectors in the Americas.

Mr. Proskin joined Credit Suisse in 1998 and has worked in the Equity Capital Markets group in New York since 2003, originating and executing a variety of equity and equity-linked transactions for both US and international issuers. Prior to that, Mr. Proskin worked in the Global Power and Project Finance group within Investment Banking.

Mr. Proskin received a Bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, with highest honors in Economics and a Master's degree in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University