Mr. Heffner as an advisor to the CEO at the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) he is responsible for Mergers and Acquisition projects. Prior to his currents assignment Mr. Heffner has worked in the telecom sector – as director of business administration at Siemens, then later as leader of a multinational team responsible for project financing and controlling at Nokia. Mr. Heffner has an investment banking background, after finishing his financial studies he started banking at BAWAG in Vienna, then he was a treasury sales dealer at the Dutch ABN AMRO Bank and the French Credit Lyonnais bank, later on he was involved in projects financing at Deutsche Leasing AG. As father of three children, he is passionate about sustainable development, especially about sustainable and energy efficient architecture.