Daniel trained in Finance and Business Management early in his career before becoming a member of the UK's Institute of Transport and Institute of Logistics. He works with clients at strategic level in Policy Management, Investment and Business restructuring, Concession development (PPP, SPV), Programme and Project Management and is also a specialist in IT applications and Technology.Daniel has held senior positions in British Rail, DFDS (Scandinavian Seaways, Denmark), Sir Alexander Gibb in Partners,(UK), Jacobs Engineering (USA), Oracle Corporation (USA). He has worked with EC Harris in senior roles for 4 years.

He has over 30 years of world-wide experience in the transport sector, working as project officer, project manager, and policy adviser in primarily the road and rail transport and infrastructure sub-sectors for the Dutch Ministry of Transport, the World Bank and most recently the Community of European Railways and Infrastructure managers (CER).

Before specialising on transport he worked for the International consultancy Accenture in the areas of financial analysis, accounting and controlling. Mr. Bauer is expert in railway operations and administration. Due to his interdisciplinary background he mainly works on projects requiring both, a technological understanding and thorough economic skills. He has worked on and managed several projects, mainly in Central Eastern Europe, in the areas of operations management, process analysis and optimisation, restructuring and logistics management. In addition tothat he is an expert for regional and long distance passenger services. Furthermore he has extensive experience in business administration, mainly in the areas of financing and controlling, marketing and HR strategy.

1977 – 1988 structural engineer at VOEST-ALPINE steel constructions in Linz/Austria, stress analyst, project manager with missions to Venezuela (1980 – 1982) and Argentina (1987 – 1988) and head of department. 1988 – 1992 change to VOEST-ALPINE Railway Systems as sales manager in Vienna/Austria and head of engineering department in Zeltweg/Austria.

1992 – 1993 transport engineer at Friedreich & Partners, civil engineers in Vienna.

Since 1993 state official in the Austrian ministry of transport, in the field of strategic infra¬structure planning, member and chairman of several national and international working groups such as TINA Central European subgroup, Austrian representative in High Level Group “Wider Europe” Brussels 2004 – 2005, lecturer at University of Klagenfurt/Austria, etc.

Since 1999, he has been widely involved in the promotion and development of a PPP concept in the Czech Republic, preparing, inter alia, the Czech transport PPP pilots (the Prague Ring Road, the AirCon and the Prague Metro Line D) and the Position Paper on Transport PPPs.

Between 1988 - 1992 he was deputy CEO and later Board Member of Interag, a major Hungarian trading and holding company. For the same company he was responsible for setting up and managing the car import and distribution business of BMW and later Honda in Hungary. In 1993 together with a partner he created Ventura an investment company specialized in private equity investments in Hungary. During the years Ventura has been involved in 24 different investment deals varying from privatization, buy outs and outsourcing as well.

Ventura maintains working relationships with a number of local and multinational investors acting as potential as co-investors in Ventura deals. Between 1997-2000 Ventura has been working, on a non–exclusive basis, with Global Equity Investments Group of the Bank of America (GEI) with a mandate to identify private equity investment opportunities in Hungary. In 1998 Ventura acquired the majority of the shares of HUNGAROCAMION the largest transport and logistic company in the Central Europe. GEI and other financial investor DBG (Deutsche Bank) contributed with a capital increase of USD 13m to this investment.

Acting as Chairman and Board Member of HUNGAROCAMION he was focusing on strategy and business development he was actively contributed to the turn around of the company IN December 2002 the investor group sold their interest in HUNGAROCAMIONB achieving an excellent return of their financial investment. In April 2003 Ventura carried out a capital increase in the road transport arm of the MASPED group. MASPED is the largest independent forwarding group of the CEE region. The company has been privatized by the management in 1994. The group has operational business units/companies in the rail and road transportation and also active in the warehousing logistic and the related distribution service.

After this equity involvement Mr. Horvath took over the MD position of the company MASPED Tlog. Thanks to the intensive business development company become one of the largest local 3PL of CEE region. Tlog is servicing the large manufacturers who have established production sites in these countries. MASPED Tlog is currently building its regional network and has already established subsidiaries in Slovakia and Rumania.

Mr. Horváth is Member of the Supervisory Board of MASPED Logisztika a warehouse logistic company of the Group. Mr. Horváth is also member of the Management Committee of the European Freight and Logistic Leaders Forum a high profile business Club of the European logistic industry. In 2006 large Hungarian logistic companies have created the Hungarian Logistic Cluster (HLC) The Cluster is active in negotiations with the government in working out some basic issues as the Logistic Strategy of Hungary. Mr. Horvath is Chairman of the HLC.

From 2004 she became Deputy Director of Strategic Investment Project. In 2005 she was promoted to Head of Department for Project Management – Traditional Sectors & Energetics. From 2007 June she is Director of Project Management. In this position she is responsible for all new investment projects. Her team provides a one stop shop service for potential investors including providing general and specific information about the investment climate, sectors etc., tailor-made site offers, organizing site visits and meetings with possible partners, authorities, providing assistance during the implementation period by accelerating permitting procedures, VIP treatment in obtaining working visa, residential permit etc.

Paul graduated in 1989 with joint honours in Languages, Economics and Politics from the Polytechnic of Kingston in London, UK, and the University of Grenoble, France.

He has over 18 years’ experience in international asset finance, leasing and banking. Prior to joining the Angel Trains Group he spent six years with the HSBC group (specialising in public-sector leasing and specialised asset finance) and four years with The Fuji Bank (specialising in aircraft finance and US leveraged leasing).

In 2000 Paul was responsible for the first true operating lease for passenger trains closed in mainland Europe (with DSB, the Danish State Railway) and has been heavily involved in the growth of Angel Trains International in Western Europe. Today, Paul heads a team with responsibility for the further expansion of Angel Trains International into new markets, including Central and Eastern Europe.