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About Nexa Bridge Consulting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nexa Bridge Consulting was founded by Zolt\u00e1n K\u00e1tai in 2023, leveraging his 18 years of project financing experience acquired in various positions within the banking sector. Nexa Bridge Consulting aims to support project developers in securing financing, whether through equity investment, bank financing, or other non-traditional financing methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the beginnings<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\"\"The moment that drove me to pursue economics as my main interest which led to a career in banking and later to forming Nexa Bridge Consulting, came in the early nineties. Those were exciting times even for a 12-year-old. I could hardly wait for my mother to bring home the daily newspaper, which otherwise held little interest for me, except for one section: the daily statistics of the shares traded on the newly reopened Budapest Stock Exchange. I remember cutting out the table containing the closing prices and the volume figures from the daily newspaper with scissors and gluing them into an A5-sized paper notebook. Those were my first quasi-Excel tables. Not understanding much about the whole thing, it still fascinated me that fortunes are made and lost by looking at these mysterious numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward 12 years, and I am standing at the gate of Raiffeisen Bank’s headquarters on Akad\u00e9mia Street, Budapest, waiting to be let through the gate with a visitor card to start my first real working day as a banker under the watchful eyes of amazing people who taught me so much about project finance over the next three years at the yellow-black bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After three years my path took me to the market-leading Hungarian bank, OTP Group, where I continued working in the project finance department, first as a senior project manager, later as head of unit, and for 8 years as the head of the Special Project Loans Department. I loved working there; it was a fantastic group of people who were really like family for many years. I can say that we grew professionally with OTP Group. The bank set its foot in many countries in the region, and OTP became an important player not only in Hungary but in most other markets where it gained interest. It was really the perfect learning ground because we had projects not only in Hungary but in a very diverse group of OTP countries. Our clients were also similarly diverse, ranging from ultra-sophisticated American or Western European funds to entrepreneurs who single-handedly built up business empires from nothing. One thing was constant: we always had to find the common language professionally and personally with the people who were representing our clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 15 years, I decided to leave the banking sector and started my journey as a financing consultant by forming Nexa Bridge. I wake up every morning with the desire to have a positive impact in any situation. My main ambition is to use my experience and knowledge for the benefit of the clients of Nexa Bridge Consulting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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