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Activa Capital boosts its investment team with the appointment of Timothée Heron as associate

Paris, 10 October 2017
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Activa Capital, the Paris-based independent private equity firm, is pursuing its development strategy and announces the arrival of Timothée Héron, 26, as Associate.
Timothée will reinforce the investment team in analyzing new opportunities. Prior to joining Activa Capital, Timothée
worked for 2 years as an M&A analyst at DC Advisory, after previous work experience in large and mid-cap M&A at UBS and Credit Suisse. Timothée is a graduate of Dauphine University, Paris.
“We are very pleased to welcome Timothée to Activa Capital’s investment team, which now counts 12 professionals dedicated to investments. His transactional experience on the French SME market will strengthen our ability to identify strong investment opportunities and support management teams with their growth projects”, says Christophe Parier, Partner at Activa Capital.
About Activa Capital
Activa Capital is a leading French mid-market private equity firm. Activa Capital manages over €500m of private equity funds on behalf of a wide range of institutional investors. Activa Capital partners with ambitious mid-sized French companies, valued at €20m to €200m, seeking to accelerate their growth and their international footprint. Learn more about Activa Capital at
activacapital.com
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CapMan Real Estate appoints Investment Directors in Sweden and Denmark

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CapMan Real Estate appoints Investment Directors in Sweden and Denmark

Following its successful €425 million fund raising for its second pan Nordic Real Estate Fund, CapMan Real Estate has recruited Erik Visteus and Jacob Gade as Investment Directors in its Stockholm and Copenhagen offices to strengthen the team.

Erik brings with him 17 years of Swedish real estate experience from advising on and executing real estate transactions. He joins from JLL, where he was a National Director in the Stockholm office and responsible for transaction services and buy and sell-side mandates throughout Sweden. Prior to that Erik held positions with NCC and HSH Nordbank.

Jacob joins from Skanska in Denmark, where he was a manager in the project development department and brings nearly 13 years of asset management, project management and development experience with him.

“We are delighted to welcome Erik and Jacob to CapMan. Their strong backgrounds, contacts and reputations in two of our key Nordic real estate markets make them a great addition to our team,” says Mika Matikainen, Managing Partner and Head of CapMan Real Estate.

CapMan Real Estate has a team consisting of over 30 real estate professionals in Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen. CapMan Real Estate currently has over EUR 1.7 billion of assets under management and the first fund was established in 2005.

For further information, please contact:
Mika Matikainen, Managing Partner, Head of CapMan Real Estate, tel. +358 40 519 0707
Ed Williams, Managing Partner, Sweden, CapMan Real Estate, tel. +46 76 506 20 71
Torsten Bjerregaard, Managing Partner, Denmark, CapMan Real Estate, tel. +44 7715 772 554

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CapMan is a leading Nordic investment and specialised asset management company. As one of the Nordic private equity pioneers we have actively developed hundreds of companies and real estate and thereby created substantial value in these businesses and assets over the last 28 years. CapMan has today 110 private equity professionals and manages €2.7 billion in assets. We mainly manage the assets of our customers, the investors, but also make direct investments from our own balance sheet in areas without an active fund. Our objective is to provide attractive returns and innovative solutions to investors and value adding services to professional investment partnerships, growth-oriented companies and tenants. Our current investment strategies cover Buyout, Growth Equity, Real Estate, Russia, Credit, Infrastructure and Tactical Opportunities. We also have a growing service business that currently includes fundraising advisory, procurement activities and fund management.

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Partners Group expands Asian Private Real Estate leadership team with Managing Director role

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Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has appointed Rahul Ghai as a Managing Director within its Singapore-based Private Real Estate team. In his new role, Rahul Ghai will focus on direct investments across the Asia-Pacific region and will report to Bastian Wolff, Managing Director and Head of Private Real Estate Asia.

Rahul Ghai brings close to 15 years of experience in the real estate investment industry. Prior to joining Partners Group, he was Head of Transactions, Asia-Pacific, and Head of Real Estate for South East Asia and Australia at Deutsche Bank Asset Management. Previously, he also worked for Standard Chartered Bank Principal Finance, Istithmar World, and Jones Lang LaSalle. He holds a joint MBA from ESSEC Business School and Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delhi.

Rahul Ghai comments: “I am delighted to be joining Partners Group at a time when the firm is experiencing strong growth and investing significantly into the build-out of its investment platform. The Asia-Pacific real estate market continues to offer a number of attractive investment opportunities, in particular value-add strategies in the region’s key gateway cities and under-capitalized assets in pre-global financial crisis programs that would benefit from more time and capital. I very much look forward to working with Bastian Wolff and the rest of the team.”

Bastian Wolff adds: “Rahul brings with him significant experience of investing across a broad cross-section of sectors and regions within the Asia-Pacific real estate market. This makes him the perfect addition to our team as we look to build on our existing track record and expand our portfolio of both direct and non-traditional secondary investments in the region, in line with our overarching relative value view and the opportunity set we see in the market.”

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Joakim Frimodig appointed CEO of CapMan

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Published: 08:30 CEST 01-09-2017 /

Joakim Frimodig appointed CEO of CapMan

 

CapMan Stock exchange release 1 September 2017 at 9.30 a.m. EEST

Joakim Frimodig appointed CEO of CapMan

Interim CEO and Deputy CEO of CapMan Joakim Frimodig has been appointed CEO of CapMan as of 1 September 2017. Frimodig has acted as Interim CEO from 4 May 2017. Earlier he has been responsible for strategic growth initiatives at CapMan since April 2016.

“In his role as Interim CEO, Joakim has proved his talent to lead the company in the right direction in accordance with the company’s strategy and we are extremely pleased with this appointment. Joakim has also had a central role in executing the recent growth iniatives and development of CapMan. We believe that Joakim has the best abilities to develop the company in the desired direction,” says Andreas Tallberg, Chairman of CapMan’s Board of Directors.

“The recent development in our results have been strong and we have seen positive development in most of our business areas. Furthermore, the actions in implementing our new growth strategy are now starting to materialize. In the position of CEO I look forward to continue developing CapMan towards the leading private equity investment and asset management company in the Nordics,” says Joakim Frimodig, CapMan’s new CEO. 

For further information, please contact:
Andreas Tallberg, Chairman of the Board of Directors, CapMan Plc, tel. +358 40 700 2252
Joakim Frimodig, CEO, CapMan Plc, tel. +358 50 529 0665


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CapMan is a leading Nordic investment and specialised asset management company. As one of the Nordic private equity pioneers we have actively developed hundreds of companies and real estate and thereby created substantial value in these businesses and assets over the last 25 years. CapMan has today 110 private equity professionals and manages €2.3 billion in assets. We mainly manage the assets of our customers, the investors, but also make direct investments from our own balance sheet in areas without an active fund. Our objective is to provide attractive returns and innovative solutions to investors and value adding services to professional investment partnerships, growth-oriented companies and tenants. Our current investment strategies cover Buyout, Growth Equity, Real Estate, Russia, Credit, Infrastructure and Tactical Opportunities. We also have a growing service business that currently includes fundraising advisory, procurement activities and fund management.

 

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Partners Group appoints Shunsuke Tanahashi as Head of Japan Office

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Partners Group appoints Shunsuke Tanahashi as Head of Japan office

Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has appointed Shunsuke Tanahashi as Head of its Japanese business. Shunsuke Tanahashi joined Partners Group in April 2017 as a Senior Vice President in its Tokyo office.

Shunsuke Tanahashi brings more than 20 years of industry experience to his role as Japan Head. Prior to joining Partners Group, he was CEO at Ark Totan Alternative, and also worked for Ant Capital, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Tokyo, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank, and the Research Institute for Pensions and Policies on Aging (RIPPA). He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from Tokyo University.

Shunsuke Tanahashi comments: “I am very excited to take on this new challenge, which comes at a momentous time in the Japanese market. Institutional investors in Japan are increasingly turning to private markets asset classes such as private equity and private infrastructure as an attractive source of returns in a low-growth environment. It is my belief that many of them will choose to work with a global investment manager capable of providing a comprehensive private markets solution and with industry-leading ESG credentials.”

Kevin Lu, Chairman of Asia, states: “With his substantial experience and an in-depth understanding of private markets, we believe Shunsuke Tanahashi is ideally positioned to lead our efforts in Japan. I look forward to working together with him in the future to build out our relationships with institutional investors and distribution partners in this important market.”

 

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Kevin Reeder apointed as new CEO of bm|t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen gmbh

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Kevin Reeder (39) was appointed as new Managing Director of bm|t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen gmbh as of September 1, 2017. A native American and a graduate in business administration with an MBA degree from Oxford, he has a diverse professional career in international investment management. After having worked in Denver and Zurich he worked as an investment manager at bm|t between 2013 and 2014 and  therefore knows Thuringia, the Thuringian companies and the startup scene in the region.

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Kevin Reeder (39) is the new Managing Director of bm|t from September 1st.

“Investments in exciting start-ups and innovative SMEs remain a challenging task in Thuringia. With Kevin Reeder, we have found the right person to carry out this task and to further strengthen bm|t’s already strong position in the market, “commented Matthias Wierlacher, Chairman of Thüringer Aufbaubank and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of bm|t. Kevin Reeder says about his new job: “I am delighted to invest the capital entrusted to us profitably. We are thus financing innovations and economic growth in Thuringia.”

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Jessica Häggström new Head of Human Resources and member of Investor AB’s Extended Management Group

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In September, Jessica Häggström will succeed David Lindquist as Head of Human Resources at Investor. Jessica Häggström has since 1998 worked at Ericsson in various roles within Human Resources, such as Talent Management, Compensation and Benefits. In her new role she will be a member of Investor’s Extended Management Group which, in addition to the members of the Management Group of Investor, includes the two Co-heads of Patricia Industries and now also the Head of Human Resources.

Accordingly, Investor’s Extended Management Group consists of the following members with respective responsibilities:

Johan Forssell – President and CEO
Helena Saxon – CFO
Daniel Nodhäll – Listed Core Investments
Petra Hedengran – General Counsel, Corporate governance, investments in EQT funds
Stefan Stern – Communication, Public Affairs and Sustainability
Christian Cederholm – Patricia Industries Nordics
Noah Walley – Patricia Industries North America
Jessica Häggström – Human Resources

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CapMan plans to set up new Growth Equity fund and appoints Partner to the team

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CapMan plans to set up new Growth Equity fund and appoints Partner to the team

CapMan plans to set up new Growth Equity fund focusing on minority investments in unlisted companies. In addition, CapMan strengthens its Growth Equity team by appointing Antti Kummu as Partner.

The background research of the new planned Growth Equity fund demonstrates that the investor appetite for active minority investments is high. Furthermore, CapMan Growth Equity’s track record is strong due to successful value-add work in the portfolio companies in addition to significant exits. The targeted fund size of the new growth investments fund is approximately MEUR 80 and fund raising is planned to be executed during 2017.

“There is significant demand for structured growth equity instruments and CapMan is pleased to be able to offer investors this alternative investment opportunity,” comments Juha Mikkola, CapMan Growth Equity, Managing Partner.

The new Growth Equity Partner Antti Kummu has more than 10 years of experience from the private equity industry. He joins CapMan from Touhula Varhaiskasvatus Oy, where he acted as CFO. Prior to that, he worked for Coronaria Hoitoketju Oy as Director. He was also a member of Finnish Industry Investments’ Management Group and responsible for direct investments in to later stage companies and direct industrial investments.

“The new planned Growth Equity fund and the team appointment of Antti Kummu reflects our growth strategy in which crucial components are launching new business areas and products. We are very pleased to welcome Antti at CapMan and to strengthen our Growth Equity team. Antti’s strong background will support our Growth Equity team’s expertise and we are now in a good position to achieve great results also in this new private equity category”, says Joakim Frimodig, CapMan’s Interim CEO.

The objective of the Growth Equity investment activities is to find unlisted target companies with strong growth potential, to make significant minority investments worth of more than one million in them and, as an active investor, to develop their value so as to achieve returns in excess of the market average. CapMan’s Growth Equity portfolio consists of six unlisted Nordic companies at the moment.

For further information, please contact:
Juha Mikkola, Managing Partner, Growth Equity, CapMan Oyj, tel. +358 50 590 0522
Joakim Frimodig, Interim CEO, CapMan Oyj, tel. +358 50 529 0665

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CapMan is a leading Nordic investment and specialised asset management company. As one of the Nordic private equity pioneers we have actively developed hundreds of companies and real estate and thereby created substantial value in these businesses and assets over the last 25 years. CapMan has today 110 private equity professionals and manages €2.3 billion in assets. We mainly manage the assets of our customers, the investors, but also make direct investments from our own balance sheet in areas without an active fund. Our objective is to provide attractive returns and innovative solutions to investors and value adding services to professional investment partnerships, growth-oriented companies and tenants. Our current investment strategies cover Buyout, Growth Equity, Real Estate, Russia, Credit, Infrastructure and Tactical Opportunities. We also have a growing service business that currently includes fundraising advisory, procurement activities and fund management.

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Henrik Poulsen appointed Deputy Chairman of Kinnevik

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Henrik Poulsen appointed Deputy Chairman of Kinnevik

Kinnevik AB (publ) (“Kinnevik”) today announced that the Board of Directors has agreed to appoint Henrik Poulsen as Deputy Chairman alongside Dame Amelia Fawcett. Henrik Poulsen was elected Director of the Board at the Annual General Meeting 2017 and he is a member of Kinnevik’s Audit Committee.

Henrik Poulsen is the Chief Executive Officer of Dong Energy, the global leader in offshore wind power. Prior to joining Dong Energy in 2012, Henrik was the Chief Executive Officer of Danish telecommunications company TDC between 2008 and 2012.

Tom Boardman, Chairman of the Board commented:

“I am delighted that Henrik will assume the role as Deputy Chairman of Kinnevik. Since his election in May, Henrik has been a very active Director bringing significant sector experience and operational insights to the Board discussions, and I look forward to working even closer with him in his role as Deputy Chairman.”

The Nomination Committee representing more than 50% of the votes of the Company supports the Board’s appointment of Henrik Poulsen as Deputy Chairman.

This information is information that Kinnevik AB (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below, at 20:30 CET on 6 August 2017.

For further information, visit www.kinnevik.com or contact:

Torun Litzén, Director Investor Relations
Phone +46 (0)8 562 000 83
Mobile +46 (0)70 762 00 83

Kinnevik is an industry focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our purpose is to build the digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choice. We do this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in and lead fast growing businesses in developed and emerging markets. We believe in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor and von Horn families. Kinnevik’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm’s list for large cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.

 

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Anders Borg tenders his resignation from the Board of Kinnevik

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Anders Borg tenders his resignation from the Board of Kinnevik

Earlier today, Mr Anders Borg tendered his resignation as a Director of Kinnevik with immediate effect. The Board has accepted his resignation.

This information is information that Kinnevik AB (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below, at 18.45 CET on 5 August 2017.

For further information, visit www.kinnevik.com or contact:

Torun Litzén, Director Investor Relations
Phone +46 (0)8 562 000 83
Mobile +46 (0)70 762 00 83

Kinnevik is an industry focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our purpose is to build the digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choice. We do this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in and lead fast growing businesses in developed and emerging markets. We believe in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor and von Horn families. Kinnevik’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm’s list for large cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.

 

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