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Alfred Gantner
Alfred Gantner, also known as Fredy Gantner, is a Swiss private-markets executive who co-founded Partners Group in 1996 and led it as chief executive until 2005.
Alistair Hamilton
Alistair Hamilton, born 1975, is a private equity executive and the inaugural Chief Financial Officer of London firm Goldenpeak, after eight years as CFO of Inflexion Private Equity.
Andrea Bonomi
Andrea Bonomi is an Italian financier, born in New York in 1965, who founded and chairs Investindustrial, a European private equity group known for Ducati and Aston Martin deals.
Andrew Sillitoe
Andrew Sillitoe is a private-equity investor who has been Co-CEO of London-based Apax Partners since 2014, where he focuses on Tech & Telco deals and chairs the firm's investment committees.
Björn Savén
Björn Savén is a Swedish private equity investor who founded Industri Kapital, now IK Partners, the firm behind the first private equity fund to target the Nordic market.
Bridgepoint Group plc
Bridgepoint Group plc is a London-headquartered private markets firm investing across private equity, private credit, and infrastructure; founded in 1984 as NatWest Equity Partners, it listed in London in 2021.
Cap10 Partners
Cap10 Partners is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2021 by Fabrice Nottin, formerly of Apollo, making control buyout investments in mid-market companies.
Carlo Pirzio-Biroli
Carlo Pirzio-Biroli is a London-based private equity executive who co-founded and leads Glendower Capital, a secondaries firm spun out of Deutsche Asset Management in 2017 and rebranded CVC Secondary Partners in 2024.
Christian Sinding
Christian Sinding is a Norwegian private-equity executive who served as CEO and Managing Partner of EQT from 2019 to 2025, during which the firm listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
Claes Dahlbäck
Claes Dahlbäck is a Swedish business executive who led Investor AB, the Wallenberg holding company, as CEO from 1978 to 1999, then chaired it until 2005.
Conni Jonsson
Conni Jonsson is a Swedish financier who founded the private equity firm EQT Partners in Stockholm in 1994 and led it as CEO until 2014.
Damon Buffini
Sir Damon Buffini is a British financier and founding partner of the private equity firm Permira, which he led from 1997 to 2010, later chairing the National Theatre and the BBC's deputy chair.
Dániel Jellinek
Dániel Jellinek is a Hungarian businessman, founder, chief executive, and majority owner of Indotek Group, a Budapest real estate firm managing over EUR 2.5 billion in assets.
Dominique Gaillard
Dominique Gaillard is a French private-equity executive who ran Ardian's Direct Funds from 2001, presided over France Invest from 2018 to 2021, and co-founded Armen in 2022.
Dominique Senequier
Dominique Senequier is a French investor who founded AXA Private Equity in 1996 and led the 2013 buyout from AXA that created Ardian, a global private investment firm.
DPE Deutsche Private Equity
DPE Deutsche Private Equity is a Munich-based private equity firm providing growth capital to mid-sized DACH companies. Founded in 2007, it manages around €3 billion.
EQT
EQT is a Stockholm-based private equity and private capital firm founded in 1994 by Investor AB and Conni Jonsson, managing €291 billion as of 2026.
EQT Partners
EQT Partners, commonly known as EQT, is a global private-markets investment firm founded in Stockholm in 1994 by Conni Jonsson with backing from Investor AB.
Fabrice Nottin
Fabrice Nottin, born 1978, is a French private equity executive who founded London-based Cap10 Partners in 2020 after nine years as a partner at Apollo.
Guy Hands
Guy Hands is a British financier who founded the private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners, known for the EMI takeover and Four Seasons care homes deal.
IK Partners
IK Partners, formerly IK Investment Partners and Industri Kapital, is a European mid-market private equity firm founded in 1989 by Björn Savén, with its head office in London.
Investindustrial
Investindustrial is a European mid-market private-equity firm founded in 1990 by Andrea C. Bonomi, headquartered in London, which has raised over €17 billion and invested in Ducati and Aston Martin.
Ivan Jakabovič
Ivan Jakabovič is a Slovak financier who co-founded the securities broker J&T Securities in 1994 and holds 35.15 percent of J&T FINANCE GROUP SE, a Prague-registered banking group.
Joe O'Mara
Joseph O'Mara (born 1979) is an Irish private equity investor based in London who co-founded Aspirity Partners after 14 years at Vitruvian Partners; its debut fund closed at over €875 million in 2025.
Leon Gillespie
Leon Gillespie (born 1984) is a British private equity executive who co-founded Goldenpeak, a London firm investing £25–75 million in B2B services across the UK and Ireland.
LifeX
LifeX is a Copenhagen-based co-living operator, founded in 2017, that leases large furnished apartments and sublets rooms to resident communities on collective leases in several European cities.
Marc Thiery
Marc Thiery is a German private equity investor who co-founded Deutsche Private Equity (DPE) in Munich in 2007, a firm managing about €3 billion in the DACH region.
Marcel Erni
Marcel Erni, born in 1965, is a Swiss financier who co-founded Partners Group, a Zug-based global private markets firm, with two Goldman Sachs colleagues in 1996.
Martin Halusa
Martin Halusa, born 1955, is a private-equity executive who was CEO of London-based Apax Partners from 2003 to 2014, then Chairman until 2016, after co-founding its German business in 1990.
Mitch Truwit
Mitch Truwit, born 1969, is an American private equity executive who has been Co-CEO of Apax Partners since 2014, after leading priceline.com and Orbitz.