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Partners Group
Partners Group is a Swiss global private-markets investment manager founded in 1996 in Zug by three former Goldman Sachs colleagues, managing USD 186 billion in assets.
Patrick Lynch (Canadian investor)
Patrick Lynch (born 1978) is a Canadian private-markets investor and co-founder and CEO of Featherlight Capital, after leading private equity at Fiera Comox and funds roles at Mubadala and CDPQ.
Patrik Tkáč
Patrik Tkáč, born 1973, is a Slovak financier who co-founded the J&T group in 1994, chairs J&T Finance Group SE, and holds a 44% stake in the energy group EPH.
Philipp Lesjak
Philipp Lesjak, known professionally as Phil Lesjak, is a private equity investor who founded Sigla, a London firm focused on healthcare and business services, in 2025.
Ralph Choufani
Ralph Choufani is a private equity investor who co-founded the pan-European firm Aspirity Partners in 2025, after ten years as Partner at Abry Partners in London.
Robert Appleby (investment manager)
Robert (Rob) Appleby is an investment manager who founded London-based food and agriculture investor Cibus Capital and co-founded the Asian private credit manager ADM Capital in 1998.
Terra Firma Capital Partners
Terra Firma Capital Partners is a London-based private equity firm founded by Guy Hands in 2002, known for buyouts of out-of-favor businesses including EMI and Annington Homes.
Thomas von Koch
Thomas von Koch is a Swedish private equity executive who joined EQT's founding team in 1994 and was its CEO and Managing Partner from 2014 to 2019.
Torreal
Torreal is a Madrid-based, family-owned investment firm founded by Juan Abelló in 1990, which deploys permanent family capital as majority or minority equity in private and public companies worldwide.
Urs Wietlisbach
Urs Wietlisbach is a Swiss billionaire investor who co-founded Partners Group in Zug in 1996 with Marcel Erni and Alfred Gantner, holding roughly a 5 percent stake.
Volker Hichert
Volker Hichert is a German private-equity executive who co-founded DPE Deutsche Private Equity in Munich in 2007, a firm managing about €3 billion in the DACH region.
William Jackson (private-equity executive)
William Jackson is a British private-equity executive who joined Bridgepoint in 1986, built it into a diversified asset manager, led its 2021 London listing, and chaired it until July 2024.