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Jon Moulton

Jon Moulton is Managing Partner of Alchemy, a UK-based private equity firm, which has invested £2.0 billion of equity with an emphasis on dealing with troubled companies. Alchemy also has a £300m European special opportunities fund investing principally in distressed debt.

Michael Wand

Michael Wand is a Managing Director focused on European technology opportunities in the software sector. Mr. Wand joined Carlyle in 2001 and his investment interests include enterprise and infrastructure software, wireless technology and IT security. He is based in London. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Wand worked for approximately 10 years in investment banking, the last seven years in the technology sector. As a Managing Director, he was responsible for the European software and internet [ read more ...]

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David Abrams

Hans Albrecht

Axel Kuehn

Axel Kuehn is Head of Private Equity Funds Group Zurich at AIG INVESTMENTS. The Private Equity Funds Group is a global advisor for private equity fund investments. Axel Kuehn's current responsibilities include overseeing investments in European geographies out of Zurich, as well as sourcing, due diligence, monitoring and product marketing. He has been in private equity funds business for more than a decade and joined from Allianz Private Equity in 2005.

Mary Kuusisto

Mary Kuusisto is a partner in the Private Investment Funds Group of Proskauer Rose LLP in London. She has over fifteen years of experience in the private equity industry and has advised hundreds of GPs and LPs on fund formation and operational matters involving private investment funds globally, with particular experience in tax-related matters.

Jonny Maxwell

Jonny Maxwell is Global Head of Private Equity Fund of Funds at Allianz Private Equity Partners. Jonny has overall responsibility for Allianz’s indirect private equity activities, operating out of locations in Munich, New York and Singapore. Allianz, one of the world's largest insurance companies manages in excess of Euro 6.3 billion of private equity fund assets.

Peter McKellar

Peter McKellar, Chief Investment Officer, Standard Life Investments started his career in investment banking at JP Morgan and worked in corporate finance before moving into industry in 1995 as corporate development director and then group finance director of Clydeport plc, a London Stock Exchange listed company and a former Montagu Private Equity buyout. Peter joined Standard Life Investments’ private equity team in the autumn of 1999, as Investment Director, and was promoted to Chief [ read more ...]

A. Michael Hoffman

A. Michael Hoffman co-founded Palamon Capital Partners in 1999 and is Chairman. He has extensive experience in private equity having established the London Office of Warburg Pincus in 1987.

Nigel McConnell

Roberto Pilotto

Scott Collins

Ian Croxford

Ian joined Stock Spirits Group in December 2007. He has worked in the industry since 1996, when he joined United Distillers & Vintners (a subsidiary of Diageo PLC) as Packaging Director, Global Operations and Operations Director, Packaging, UK Operations. He was most recently CEO of Inter Link Foods Ltd.

Philip A. Dougall

Philip is responsible for Sun European Partners, LLP which identifies European leveraged buyout and investment opportunities for affiliates of Sun Capital Partners. Mr. Dougall spent twelve years, from 1991 to 2003, with Lehman Brothers where, most recently, he was Managing Director and Co–Head of the firm’s European telecommunications practice.

Jean-Charles Douin

Jean-Charles Douin joined the London team at Teachers’ in 2008 with international experience in private equity. Previously, he worked at CapVest Ltd., a mid-cap private equity fund based in London, and UBS Investment, where he focused on the consumer and retail sector

Rick Krens

Prior to joining Oaktree in 2007, Mr. Krens was CFO and Financial Controller of GROHE, a leading provider of Water Technology solutions in Germany. Before that, he spent four years at Black & Decker Europe, most recently as a Vice-President in the Lean Six Sigma group. Prior experience includes work at Stanley Works Inc., GE Capital and GE Plastics.

Mark McDonald

Mark McDonald is Principal of Pomona Capital’s London office and joined the firm in 2004. He focuses on the origination and execution of private equity secondary transactions as well as primary fund investments in Europe. Prior to Pomona, Mark spent four years with Barclays Capital in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region where he focused on M&A, leverage finance and private equity. He also spent three years with VCI, an investment firm backed by 3i, based in Milan and London.

Peter Smith

Peter joined Celerant in 2008 as a Director of Celerant’s Private Equity and M&A practice. He has previously worked in consulting, industry and Private Equity, where he has held CEO positions with a number of PE backed companies, overseeing the doubling of revenue and profitability.

Rod Selkirk

Frank Amberg

As Head of Private Equity, Frank Amberg is responsible for the Private Equity and Infrastructure investments of Munich Re Group. Prior to joining MEAG, Mr. Amberg spent eight years in the execution of direct investments in Venture Capital, Buyout and mezzanine financings and worked several years in Private Equity Fundraising. Previously, he was responsible for M&A with a Germany based industrial company.

Beat Buehlmann

Beat Buehlman is a partner at Horizon21. Previous to this he was Founding Partner and Chairman at Tendo Corporate Finance AG, Zürich, where he established a corporate finance advisory boutique in the fields of Private Equity and M&A for SME in Switzerland, Germany and US.

Tom Clausen

Tom is a co-founder and managing partner of Capvent AG and Capvent India Advisors Private Ltd as well as a member of the firm’s investment committee. He has more than 16 years of direct and fund investment experience with growth companies in the US, private equity transactions in Europe and fund investments in Asia. Tom helped to develop the firm’s investment and due diligence process and has advised on all fund investment opportunities

Pål Ristvedt

Pål Ristvedt is based in Lexington Partners’ London office where he is responsible for Lexington’s secondary activities outside the United States and leading a team focused on the sourcing, valuation and negotiation of secondary purchases of non-US buyout, venture and mezzanine private equity partnerships.

William Gilmore

William is an investment director in the private equity team, which he heads up, and is responsible for making investments in private equity funds globally. The private equity team manages more than €1.5bn in private equity commitments in over 60 fund investments. William is also a member of the advisory committees of a number of private equity funds, a director of the Private Equity Association and is regularly invited to speak at private equity conferences.

Jonny Maxwell

Jonny Maxwell is Global Head of Private Equity Fund of Funds at Allianz Private Equity Partners. Jonny has overall responsibility for Allianz’s indirect private equity activities, operating out of locations in Munich, New York and Singapore. Allianz, one of the world's largest insurance companies manages in excess of Euro 6.3 billion of private equity fund assets.

Jon Moulton

Jon Moulton is Managing Partner of Alchemy, a UK-based private equity firm, which has invested £2.0 billion of equity with an emphasis on dealing with troubled companies. Alchemy also has a £300m European special opportunities fund investing principally in distressed debt.

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