J. Paul Groom

Paul Groom is the founding and a Managing Partner of Telefinance, and has provided financial consulting, research and restructuring services to telecommunications clients for more than twelve years.

Paul has worked for the First National Bank of Chicago and Chase Manhattan Bank in London, Chicago, São Paulo and New York. He has held executive positions in trade and commodity finance, correspondent banking, corporate finance, investment banking and credit and risk management.

Paul has worked closely with equipment suppliers such as Nortel Networks, Motorola, Alcatel, Siemens, Ericsson, and a number of other smaller suppliers to assist with the structuring of supplier financings for greenfield projects and corporate finance. Paul has provided advisory and research services to corporate clients with operations in Brazil.

His experience encompassed the pre-privatization phase; assisting BNDES with the development of their telecom finance department; advising mobile cellular B-band participants; assisting corporations involved in Brazil’s privatization process; helping PCS/ GSM infrastructure providers with capital planning and providing market, sector and product analyses.

Since early 2002, Telefinance, led by Paul, became involved in the financial restructuring of telecommunications companies encountering financial difficulties such as the mobile cellular and PCS operator, CTI in Argentina and Impsat with operations throughout Latin America.

Paul holds a Bachelors degree in Government and Politics and a Masters in Comparative Politics, both from the University of Kent, Canterbury, England.