Conference Agenda

 20 March

08:30-08:50
Workshop Registration

Moti Shahani
Managing Director,
Blue Ridge Partners

08:50-09:50
Breakfast Briefing: Revenue Growth Acceleration (Limited Participants)

09:50-10:30
Conference Registration & Networking

Raouf Fria
Co-Founder, Actum Group

10:30-10:35
Actum Welcome

10:35-10:45
Chair Opening Remarks

Tim Nixon
CEO, Management Consulting,
Teneo

Pia Heidenmark Cook
Senior Advisor, Teneo

10:45-11:15
Keynote: Driving Transformative Change in Unprecedented Times

11:15-12:00
THE ROLE OF SUSTAINABILITY IN VALUE CREATION

Heleen van Poecke (Moderator)
CEO and Co-Founder, KEY ESG

Maria Carradice
Managing Director, Specialist – ESG, Mayfair Equity Partners

Elsa Palanza
Global Head
of Sustainability & ESG, ICG

Dominica Adam
Chief Sustainability Officer,
Seven2

Yohan Hill
Director of ESG and Responsible
Investing, Adams Street Partners

Andy Burgess (Moderator)
Partner & Head of CFO Centre
of Excellence, KPMG

12:00-12:45
Sponsors & CFOs: Better Alignment for Greater Transformation

Gabriele Questa
Managing Director, KKR

Thomas Dixon
Managing Director,
Portfolio Operations,
Blackstone

Guillaume Genot
Finance Operating Advisor,
Towerbrook

Abhinav Trehan
MD, Head of Finance Portfolio
Operations Group, Five Arrows
Principal Investments

12:45-13:45
Networking lunch

Gurpreet Manku (Moderator)
CEO, Level20

13:45-14:15
Fireside Chat: Delivering Through Diversity

Ursula Burns
Chairwoman, Teneo and
Co-Founder of Integrum Holdings

14:15-15:00
Operational improvements and human capital: The role of technology and data analytics

Bryan Turner (Moderator)
Partner, Humatica

Nicole Jones
Talent Director,
Portfolio Support Group,
Advent International

Polly Barnes
Operating Partner People &
Talent, EQT

Séverine De Wulf
Managing Director
Portfolio Talent, Leadership
& Governance, PAI Partners

Alessandro Moretti
Head of Operational Value Creation,
Public Investment Fund

Bridget Walsh (Moderator)
Global Private Equity Leader, EY

15:00-15:45
Generative AI: Pioneering New Frontiers in Value Creation

Vipin Nair
Technology Operating Partner, KKR

Didem Ün Ateṣ
Senior Operating Advisor,
Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Tara Reeves
Managing Director,
Eurazeo

Anders Thulin
Partner, Head of Digital &
Technology Practice, Triton

Andrew Tarver
Founding Partner & Head of
Motive Create, Motive Partners

15:45-16:15
Afternoon  Networking Coffee

Roberto Del-Maschio (Moderator)
CEO & Co-Founder,
Siena Partnership

16:15-17:00
In house & Independent Operating Partners – Accelerated Value Creation

Tim Cochrane
PARTNER-HEAD OF FPP,
Montagu

Elizabeth van den Berg
Executive Vice President,
Insight Partners

Veronica Delgado
Independent Operating Partner

Naresh Kumar
Independent Operating Partner

Dimitris Staikos
Independent Operating Partner

17:00-17:15
Closing Remarks

17:15-18:30
Drinks Reception

Conference Speakers

Abhinav Trehan

Alessandro Moretti

Anders Thulin

Andrew Tarver

Andy Burgess

Bridget Walsh

Bryan Turner

Didem Ün Ateṣ

Dimitris Staikos

Dominica Adam

Elizabeth van den Berg

Elsa Palanza

Gabriele Questa

Guillaume Genot

Gurpreet Manku

Heleen van Poecke

Maria Carradice

Moti Shahani

Naresh Kumar

Nicole Jones

Pia Heidenmark Cook

Polly Barnes

Raouf Fria

Roberto Del-Maschio

Séverine De Wulf

Tara Reeves

Tim Cochrane

Tim Nixon

Thomas Dixon

Ursula Burns

Veronica Delgado

Vipin Nair

Yohan Hill

Lead Sponsor

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm, with 1,500 staff over 40 offices. Our Private Equity Growth practice area exists solely to accelerate Enterprise Value addition for PE-backed assets. We have 40 fully-specialised staff in Europe and the US, and pride ourselves on our track record of real results for our investor clients.

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Co-Sponsors

Blue Ridge Partners

Blue Ridge Partners is a global management consulting firm exclusively focused on helping companies accelerate profitable revenue growth. We have worked with more than 1,000 companies to improve their strategic understanding of markets and customers, deepen and expand their customer relationships, and enhance marketing and sales performance.

Our clients include over 130 private equity firms and their portfolio companies – supporting them during deal evaluation, due diligence, and post-acquisition. We have a reputation for helping companies grow faster by rolling up our sleeves,working collaboratively, and delivering measurable impact quickly and more efficiently than large consultancies.

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EY

Our global private equity team can help you identify, invest in and transform companies to create more value across your portfolio, at every step of your transaction lifecycle. What separates the best private equity firms from the rest is their ability to spot the right opportunities, find profitable paths to growth, execute strategies that create more value, and achieve the best possible exit — again and again.

EY teams can help increase your ability to create value and maximize return on investment by bringing the skills, technical knowledge, and senior industry experience you need. We’re ready to assemble and deploy teams of people to work at your side from day one of an assignment. It’s all part of our commitment to the transformative power of private equity.

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Humatica

Humatica helps private equity backed companies achieve outstanding investment returns with minimal risk.
We help sponsors and portfolio company leaders master the challenge of delivering ambitious value creation plans by working collaboratively with all stakeholders to align the organization and activate it for success.
Humatica’s tool-supported services and big-data benchmarks put hard facts around the critical behaviours and management practices that drive value creation for all stakeholders.
Our fact-based transparency, coupled with deep leadership experience, enables rapid consensus on pragmatic improvements to activate organizations and deliver alpha.

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KEY ESG

KEY ESG is a UK-based software platform which automates and optimises the collection, reporting and improvement of ESG and carbon accounting data. We work with fund managers across private and public markets and their portfolio companies. Our modular solutions are flexible to meet the needs of different levels of ESG maturity, company size and complexity. As an official technology partner of the ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI), our users can feed their ESG data directly into the EDCI data collection portal seamlessly via our platform.

ESG regulations and frameworks and constantly evolving and there is increasing focus on carbon emissions and ESG practices from governments, regulatory bodies and consumers. Long term value creation for both investors and companies relies on good ESG processes from data disclosure to improvement actions. KEY ESG’s simple, intuitive platform solves the inefficiency and inaccuracy of historic ESG management processes. Our data conversion calculators, framework libraries and reporting functionality empower businesses to make data-driven decisions about ESG improvements and build a more sustainable future.

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KPMG

We can help you understand the risks and upside opportunities of a deal and understand where enterprise value can be improved. Ahead of a divestment, we can help you build a compelling plan for change, backed by data. We provide you with end-to-end delivery – from identifying where potential lies to implementing the programmes to release it.

An integrated team working at deal speed

Our team brings together commercial, financial, operational and data science experts. And we give you access to KPMG’s global network of experts on everything from operations and customer experience, to corporate finance and tax.

Next-level insights using advanced analytics and data science

Our comprehensive library of real-time and high-frequency data enables us to uncover key indicators of potential. And our huge bank of analysis enables us to deliver deep insights in weeks rather than months.

A holistic, end-to-end approach to value creation.

Whether you’re buying, selling or holding, we help you identify potential and provide practical hands-on delivery of performance improvement programmes.

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Siena Partnership

Siena Partnership is a boutique consultancy providing executive search, interim management, delivery teams and advisory services to Private Equity and their portfolio companies. We connect high-performing transformation and change agents from technology, change, finance and operations across multiple sectors.

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Lunch Sponsor

JMAN Group

JMAN is a commercial data partner that specializes in maximizing returns for private equity funds and their portfolio companies. We partner with our clients to address the growing need for investment decisions and value creation initiatives to be backed by reliable, real-time data. When companies partner with JMAN, we combine our data science and data engineering expertise with our deep commercial understanding to deliver tangible high value outcomes at pace.

Founded in 2013, JMAN has a global footprint with offices in New York, London and Chennai. Our team of nearly 300 experts partner with more than 80 private equity funds and over 150 portfolio companies. Nearly 85% of our business is from recurring partnerships with our clients.

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Lanyard Sponsor

Coppett Hill Growth Advisory

Coppett Hill Growth Advisory is a technology-enabled advisor to investor-backed businesses, helping them to accelerate customer acquisition and make strategic decisions. Recently launched by Dave Kirby, previously a partner at mid-market investor Livingbridge, Coppett Hill combines its senior team’s experience as both operators and investors with proprietary technology to find insights and inspire change for their clients. They have already worked with some of the UK’s most exciting and impressive companies across a range of B2B and B2C industry sectors.

A key strength of Coppett Hill’s rapidly-growing team is to support investor-backed businesses in the early stages of a new investment period, to develop the customer acquisition inputs for a value creation plan and to bridge any gap in understanding between the board and the marketing leader. The Coppett Hill team regularly share valuable content based on concepts and tools that they’ve found to be consistently helpful when trying to accelerate business growth.

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Abhinav Trehan

MD, Head of Finance Portfolio Operations Group, Five Arrows Principal Investments

Abhinav is the Head of Finance in the Portfolio Operations Group, based in London. Prior to joining Five Arrows in 2021, Abhinav was Senior Managing Director and founding member of FTI’s Transaction Services Group, working with private equity funds on large buyouts across industrials, TMT, Business Services and Healthcare. Previously, Abhinav worked for 6 years at KPMG where he gained his ACA. Abhinav graduated with a BA in Economics from St Xavier’s College and an MSc in Management from the University of Edinburgh.
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Abhinav Trehan

MD, Head of Finance Portfolio Operations Group, Five Arrows Principal Investments

Abhinav is the Head of Finance in the Portfolio Operations Group, based in London. Prior to joining Five Arrows in 2021, Abhinav was Senior Managing Director and founding member of FTI’s Transaction Services Group, working with private equity funds on large buyouts across industrials, TMT, Business Services and Healthcare. Previously, Abhinav worked for 6 years at KPMG where he gained his ACA. Abhinav graduated with a BA in Economics from St Xavier’s College and an MSc in Management from the University of Edinburgh.
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Alessandro Moretti

Head of Operational Value Creation, Public Investment Fund

Mr. Alessandro Moretti is currently leading the Operational Value Creation Team at the Public Investment Fund since December 2019, Executive Committee member in Noon since 2021 and Board Member in HPDC investment fund since 2022. Prior to his work at the Public Investment Fund, he held a number of leadership positions in various public and private sectors, including private equity operating partner in performance improvement team, and a Chief Transformation Officer in a global firm, with HQ in Switzerland.

He also worked in one of the largest consulting firms - the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) - for more than 10 years in Europe. Alessandro holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School, a Master of Science from the Polytechnic University of Milan, and an Executive Certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Alessandro Moretti

Head of Operational Value Creation, Public Investment Fund

Mr. Alessandro Moretti is currently leading the Operational Value Creation Team at the Public Investment Fund since December 2019, Executive Committee member in Noon since 2021 and Board Member in HPDC investment fund since 2022. Prior to his work at the Public Investment Fund, he held a number of leadership positions in various public and private sectors, including private equity operating partner in performance improvement team, and a Chief Transformation Officer in a global firm, with HQ in Switzerland.

He also worked in one of the largest consulting firms - the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) - for more than 10 years in Europe. Alessandro holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School, a Master of Science from the Polytechnic University of Milan, and an Executive Certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Anders Thulin

Partner, Head of Digital & Technology Practice, Triton

Anders joined Triton West Park from Ericsson, where he was Senior Vice President, CIO and Chairman of the LatAm Region. As a former Senior Partner and Director at McKinsey & Company, he led the global High Tech and Mobile Telecom Practice and the European Private Equity Practice. Anders holds a Master in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics, including MBA studies at the Western University, Ivey Business School, Canada.
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Anders Thulin

Partner, Head of Digital & Technology Practice, Triton

Anders joined Triton West Park from Ericsson, where he was Senior Vice President, CIO and Chairman of the LatAm Region. As a former Senior Partner and Director at McKinsey & Company, he led the global High Tech and Mobile Telecom Practice and the European Private Equity Practice. Anders holds a Master in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics, including MBA studies at the Western University, Ivey Business School, Canada.
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Andrew Tarver

Founding Partner & Head of Motive Create, Motive Partners

Andrew Tarver leads Motive Create and is based in London. At Motive, Andrew is responsible for companywide innovation, technology due diligence and innovation delivery for Motive’s portfolio companies and strategic partners. Andrew brings over 20 years of financial services technology experience across the investment banking, retail banking and insurance industries and is passionate about disrupting industry inertia, accelerating company innovation and creating solutions for well-known industry challenges.

Prior to joining Motive, Andrew founded and co-founded several financial technology start-ups including Thought Machine (core banking solutions), Spoke Technologies (marketplace technology) and Sense (banking-as-a-service platform). Previously, Andrew served as the CEO at Capco UK, the business and technology management consultancy firm focused on forming the future of finance.

Andrew began his career working for Accenture, the global professional services company, where he served many financial services firms such as Goldman Sachs, UBS, and Merrill Lynch. During his tenure, Andrew helped to design and build trading platforms and supported the migration of an equity derivative trading business to a new market making technology solution.
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Andrew Tarver

Founding Partner & Head of Motive Create, Motive Partners

Andrew Tarver leads Motive Create and is based in London. At Motive, Andrew is responsible for companywide innovation, technology due diligence and innovation delivery for Motive’s portfolio companies and strategic partners. Andrew brings over 20 years of financial services technology experience across the investment banking, retail banking and insurance industries and is passionate about disrupting industry inertia, accelerating company innovation and creating solutions for well-known industry challenges.

Prior to joining Motive, Andrew founded and co-founded several financial technology start-ups including Thought Machine (core banking solutions), Spoke Technologies (marketplace technology) and Sense (banking-as-a-service platform). Previously, Andrew served as the CEO at Capco UK, the business and technology management consultancy firm focused on forming the future of finance.

Andrew began his career working for Accenture, the global professional services company, where he served many financial services firms such as Goldman Sachs, UBS, and Merrill Lynch. During his tenure, Andrew helped to design and build trading platforms and supported the migration of an equity derivative trading business to a new market making technology solution.
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Andy Burgess

Partner & Head of CFO Centre of Excellence, KPMG

Andy is a Partner within KPMG’s Integration & Separation function and runs the Finance in M&A team. Andy has 5 years of industry experience as a CFO of both a PE backed start up and for a divisional business of Nestle. This is coupled with over 15 years of consulting and deals experience over a wide range of industries. Andy specialises in assisting CFOs across the full deal lifecycle and has strong operational transformation experience specialising in finance function, cash and working capital management, cost reduction, revenue growth and strategic advisory.
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Andy Burgess

Partner & Head of CFO Centre of Excellence, KPMG

Andy is a Partner within KPMG’s Integration & Separation function and runs the Finance in M&A team. Andy has 5 years of industry experience as a CFO of both a PE backed start up and for a divisional business of Nestle. This is coupled with over 15 years of consulting and deals experience over a wide range of industries. Andy specialises in assisting CFOs across the full deal lifecycle and has strong operational transformation experience specialising in finance function, cash and working capital management, cost reduction, revenue growth and strategic advisory.
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Bridget Walsh

Global Private Equity Leader, EY

Bridget is Global Head of Private Equity (PE) at EY, one of the world’s largest professional services organizations. In 2022 EY announced a US$1b investment to expand its PE capabilities. Bridget leads the strategy for this investment, as well as a team across 145 countries advising on some of the most prominent global PE deals.

Since joining EY Bridget has developed and run several successful businesses, including the firm’s global PE Tax business. She is also a member of EY’s Global Practice Group. Bridget sits on the boards of British American Business and The Ireland Funds, Great Britain and is deeply engaged in promoting cross-border business.
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Bridget Walsh

Global Private Equity Leader, EY

Bridget is Global Head of Private Equity (PE) at EY, one of the world’s largest professional services organizations. In 2022 EY announced a US$1b investment to expand its PE capabilities. Bridget leads the strategy for this investment, as well as a team across 145 countries advising on some of the most prominent global PE deals.

Since joining EY Bridget has developed and run several successful businesses, including the firm’s global PE Tax business. She is also a member of EY’s Global Practice Group. Bridget sits on the boards of British American Business and The Ireland Funds, Great Britain and is deeply engaged in promoting cross-border business.
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Bryan Turner

Partner, Humatica

Bryan is Partner in the London office.

Bryan has significant international business leadership, consulting and operational experience with public, private and PE owned companies. Bryan has led a number of significant business transformations including Organic and M&A growth initiatives, revenue optimisations, carve outs, digital transformations, and organisational optimisation activities across a wide range of industries.

Bryan holds a BSC (Eng) (Chem) from The University of the Witwatersrand and an MBA from INSEAD and enjoys sailing as well as coaching and refereeing rugby over the weekend.
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Bryan Turner

Partner, Humatica

Bryan is Partner in the London office.

Bryan has significant international business leadership, consulting and operational experience with public, private and PE owned companies. Bryan has led a number of significant business transformations including Organic and M&A growth initiatives, revenue optimisations, carve outs, digital transformations, and organisational optimisation activities across a wide range of industries.

Bryan holds a BSC (Eng) (Chem) from The University of the Witwatersrand and an MBA from INSEAD and enjoys sailing as well as coaching and refereeing rugby over the weekend.
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Didem Ün Ateṣ

Senior Operating Advisor, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Didem Un Ates is an AI/ Generative AI and Responsible AI executive with 25 years of background in management consulting (Capgemini, EY, and Accenture) and industry (Motorola, Microsoft, and Schneider Electric).

She recently served as the Vice President, AI Strategy & Innovation, for Schneider Electric. In addition to defining Schneider’s AI/ Generative AI Strategy and innovation roadmaps, her charter covered strategic partnerships, startups/VCs/PEs, academia, Data & AI upskilling, and Responsible & Sustainable AI.

Didem, a World Economic Forum AI Governance Alliance fellow, a Goldman Sachs Value Accelerator AI/ Generative AI Council Advisor, and a Forbes Tech Council member, is a passionate AI practitioner with multiple awards such as Tech Women 100 Champion and Trailblazer 50. She directly supported the birth and incubation of Microsoft Business AI Solutions at Microsoft Research and led Alice Envisions the Future/ Girls in AI Hackathons which has since been developed into several Diversity in AI programs across Microsoft and its Fortune500 customers and partners.

She has also lead operationalization of Responsible AI at Accenture, Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions, and Schneider Electric, putting her energy towards the future of AI and Generative AI, operationalizing responsible and sustainable AI practices. Prior to Schneider, she headed Applied Strategy, Data & AI, at the Chief Data Office of Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions, focusing on Microsoft’s largest Data, AI, and Metaverse engagements and partnerships including OpenAI.
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Didem Ün Ateṣ

Senior Operating Advisor, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Didem Un Ates is an AI/ Generative AI and Responsible AI executive with 25 years of background in management consulting (Capgemini, EY, and Accenture) and industry (Motorola, Microsoft, and Schneider Electric).

She recently served as the Vice President, AI Strategy & Innovation, for Schneider Electric. In addition to defining Schneider’s AI/ Generative AI Strategy and innovation roadmaps, her charter covered strategic partnerships, startups/VCs/PEs, academia, Data & AI upskilling, and Responsible & Sustainable AI.

Didem, a World Economic Forum AI Governance Alliance fellow, a Goldman Sachs Value Accelerator AI/ Generative AI Council Advisor, and a Forbes Tech Council member, is a passionate AI practitioner with multiple awards such as Tech Women 100 Champion and Trailblazer 50. She directly supported the birth and incubation of Microsoft Business AI Solutions at Microsoft Research and led Alice Envisions the Future/ Girls in AI Hackathons which has since been developed into several Diversity in AI programs across Microsoft and its Fortune500 customers and partners.

She has also lead operationalization of Responsible AI at Accenture, Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions, and Schneider Electric, putting her energy towards the future of AI and Generative AI, operationalizing responsible and sustainable AI practices. Prior to Schneider, she headed Applied Strategy, Data & AI, at the Chief Data Office of Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions, focusing on Microsoft’s largest Data, AI, and Metaverse engagements and partnerships including OpenAI.
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Dimitris Staikos

Independent Operating Partner

Dimitris Staikos, based in United Kingdom, is currently a Operating Partner at Ta Associates, bringing experience from previous roles at Capco and Accenture. Dimitris Staikos holds a 1997 - 1998 Master of Science in Information Systems Management @ London School of Economics. With a robust skill set that includes Strategy, Management Consulting, Business Planning, Outsourcing, Management and more, Dimitris Staikos contributes valuable insights to the industry. Dimitris Staikos has 2 emails on RocketReach.
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Dimitris Staikos

Independent Operating Partner

Dimitris Staikos, based in United Kingdom, is currently a Operating Partner at Ta Associates, bringing experience from previous roles at Capco and Accenture. Dimitris Staikos holds a 1997 - 1998 Master of Science in Information Systems Management @ London School of Economics. With a robust skill set that includes Strategy, Management Consulting, Business Planning, Outsourcing, Management and more, Dimitris Staikos contributes valuable insights to the industry. Dimitris Staikos has 2 emails on RocketReach.
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Dominica Adam

Chief Sustainability Officer, Seven2

Dominica, with 20 years of expertise in sustainability and innovation, is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Seven2, where she champions sustainability as central to value creation. Believing small and mid-size businesses are vital for tackling global issues like climate change. She sees private equity as a tool for shaping the future economy by supporting business transformation.

Her sustainability journey began in 2004 as an ESG analyst at Vigeo, a leading European non-financial agency, then in 2008, she joined AXA Group as Head of Environment, focusing on sustainability and climate change. Later, she moved to AXA's Property & Casualty (P&C) Global Insurance business, enhancing innovation, product design, and digital strategies.

In 2021, Dominica moved to Seven2 (previously Apax Partners) to advance sustainability within the private equity sector. She is active across the entire investment process and operationally supports portfolio companies in their sustainability transformations.

Dominica holds a Master's in Environment Development and Policy from Sussex University and a BA in Sociology from York University, UK.
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Dominica Adam

Chief Sustainability Officer, Seven2

Dominica, with 20 years of expertise in sustainability and innovation, is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Seven2, where she champions sustainability as central to value creation. Believing small and mid-size businesses are vital for tackling global issues like climate change. She sees private equity as a tool for shaping the future economy by supporting business transformation.

Her sustainability journey began in 2004 as an ESG analyst at Vigeo, a leading European non-financial agency, then in 2008, she joined AXA Group as Head of Environment, focusing on sustainability and climate change. Later, she moved to AXA's Property & Casualty (P&C) Global Insurance business, enhancing innovation, product design, and digital strategies.

In 2021, Dominica moved to Seven2 (previously Apax Partners) to advance sustainability within the private equity sector. She is active across the entire investment process and operationally supports portfolio companies in their sustainability transformations.

Dominica holds a Master's in Environment Development and Policy from Sussex University and a BA in Sociology from York University, UK.
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Elizabeth van den Berg

Executive Vice President, Insight Partners

Elizabeth van den Berg specialises in value creation for enterprise software startups and scaleups.

She is the driving force behind the most powerful VC/PE CXO network that connects portfolio companies and the Fortune 500. She is a strategic advisor to C-level technology executives of the world’s largest companies.

As a board member and advisor, Elizabeth leverages her leadership, strategy and business development expertise to drive corporate partnerships and strategic alliances that help navigate the next stage of growth for portfolio companies.

Before Insight Partners, Elizabeth served in several key positions at startups and large corporates in her career in the technology industry, including at iRise, Barclays, Ladbrokes Coral, Hiscox, AOL, and Sky. Originally South African, Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pretoria and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

She has a passion for mountaineering and skiing and is the mother of 2 young boys.
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Elizabeth van den Berg

Executive Vice President, Insight Partners

Elizabeth van den Berg specialises in value creation for enterprise software startups and scaleups.

She is the driving force behind the most powerful VC/PE CXO network that connects portfolio companies and the Fortune 500. She is a strategic advisor to C-level technology executives of the world’s largest companies.

As a board member and advisor, Elizabeth leverages her leadership, strategy and business development expertise to drive corporate partnerships and strategic alliances that help navigate the next stage of growth for portfolio companies.

Before Insight Partners, Elizabeth served in several key positions at startups and large corporates in her career in the technology industry, including at iRise, Barclays, Ladbrokes Coral, Hiscox, AOL, and Sky. Originally South African, Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pretoria and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

She has a passion for mountaineering and skiing and is the mother of 2 young boys.
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Elsa Palanza

Global Head of Sustainability & ESG, ICG

Responsible for firmwide ESG strategy as well as responsible investing, Elsa joined ICG in September 2022 Having worked across FTSE and Fortune companies plus the not-for-profit sectors for the past 20 years, Elsa has extensive experience in launching and driving ambitious and diverse ESG initiatives. Elsa joined ICG from Barclays, where she was Global Head of Sustainability & ESG for four years. Prior to that, she worked for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, giving her a unique and global perspective on best practices in sustainability and cross-sector partnerships.
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Elsa Palanza

Global Head of Sustainability & ESG, ICG

Responsible for firmwide ESG strategy as well as responsible investing, Elsa joined ICG in September 2022 Having worked across FTSE and Fortune companies plus the not-for-profit sectors for the past 20 years, Elsa has extensive experience in launching and driving ambitious and diverse ESG initiatives. Elsa joined ICG from Barclays, where she was Global Head of Sustainability & ESG for four years. Prior to that, she worked for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, giving her a unique and global perspective on best practices in sustainability and cross-sector partnerships.
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Gabriele Questa

Managing Director, KKR

Gabriele Questa (London) joined KKR Capstone in 2018 and currently serves as a Managing Director for KKR Capstone in EMEA where he focuses on large-scale transformations. Mr. Questa is a member of the KKR European private equity team and also sits on the KKR’s Global Special Situations Portfolio Management Committee. Prior to joining KKR Capstone, Mr. Questa was a managing director at Alvarez & Marsal in London where he led large-scale transformations for private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Prior to that, he was in a CFO role where he led the transformation of a private equity owned renewable energy company and worked in a listed investment company. Mr. Questa started his career in investment banking where he advised clients on their capital structuring needs across Europe. Mr. Questa holds a bachelor's degree in law and business administration, summa cum Laude, from L. Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and an M.B.A. from INSEAD (France and Singapore). He is fluent in Italian and English and has a basic knowledge of German and Spanish.
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Gabriele Questa

Managing Director, KKR

Gabriele Questa (London) joined KKR Capstone in 2018 and currently serves as a Managing Director for KKR Capstone in EMEA where he focuses on large-scale transformations. Mr. Questa is a member of the KKR European private equity team and also sits on the KKR’s Global Special Situations Portfolio Management Committee. Prior to joining KKR Capstone, Mr. Questa was a managing director at Alvarez & Marsal in London where he led large-scale transformations for private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Prior to that, he was in a CFO role where he led the transformation of a private equity owned renewable energy company and worked in a listed investment company. Mr. Questa started his career in investment banking where he advised clients on their capital structuring needs across Europe. Mr. Questa holds a bachelor's degree in law and business administration, summa cum Laude, from L. Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and an M.B.A. from INSEAD (France and Singapore). He is fluent in Italian and English and has a basic knowledge of German and Spanish.
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Guillaume Genot

Finance Operating Advisor, Towerbrook

Mr. Genot has 25 years of experience in Finance, working across several disciplines including M&A, Financial Planning & Analysis, cost optimisation and the delivery of synergies, as well as in the set up and leadership of Finance teams. Mr. Genot previously served as Group CFO of Imaweb and Group CFO of Webedia. He has also served as Head of Corporate Finance of Aéroports de Paris as well as CFO of their safety & security division. Mr Genot earned his MiM from ESCP Business School and followed the CFO Executive Program of Stanford Business School.
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Guillaume Genot

Finance Operating Advisor, Towerbrook

Mr. Genot has 25 years of experience in Finance, working across several disciplines including M&A, Financial Planning & Analysis, cost optimisation and the delivery of synergies, as well as in the set up and leadership of Finance teams. Mr. Genot previously served as Group CFO of Imaweb and Group CFO of Webedia. He has also served as Head of Corporate Finance of Aéroports de Paris as well as CFO of their safety & security division. Mr Genot earned his MiM from ESCP Business School and followed the CFO Executive Program of Stanford Business School.
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Gurpreet Manku

CEO, Level20

Gurpreet joined Level 20 as its CEO in April 2023 having spent a decade at the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA). As Level 20’s CEO, Gurpreet is responsible for championing Level 20’s mission and delivering its vision across its key activities: Networking and Development; Mentoring; Research; Outreach; Advocacy and Sponsor Support. In her previous role as the BVCA’s Deputy Director General and Director of Policy, she led the PE/VC industry’s response to a wide range of matters from a legal, regulatory and tax perspective, including on diversity and sustainability matters. Before joining the BVCA she worked at Deloitte LLP. Gurpreet studied at the LSE and is a Chartered Accountant and a fellow of the ICAEW. Outside of Level 20, Gurpreet is on the board of the UK Business Angels Association.
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Gurpreet Manku

CEO, Level20

Gurpreet joined Level 20 as its CEO in April 2023 having spent a decade at the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA). As Level 20’s CEO, Gurpreet is responsible for championing Level 20’s mission and delivering its vision across its key activities: Networking and Development; Mentoring; Research; Outreach; Advocacy and Sponsor Support. In her previous role as the BVCA’s Deputy Director General and Director of Policy, she led the PE/VC industry’s response to a wide range of matters from a legal, regulatory and tax perspective, including on diversity and sustainability matters. Before joining the BVCA she worked at Deloitte LLP. Gurpreet studied at the LSE and is a Chartered Accountant and a fellow of the ICAEW. Outside of Level 20, Gurpreet is on the board of the UK Business Angels Association.
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Heleen van Poecke

CEO and Co-Founder, KEY ESG

While working as a Private Equity professional at AlpInvest Partners and AtlasInvest, Heleen conducted several ESG consultant-led projects across her private market portfolio companies. She saw first-hand the difficulties that investors and management teams faced when it came to ESG management. Having previously worked with B2B SaaS Collibra, Heleen's 'lightbulb moment' occurred when she realised that SaaS could be the answer that the industry needed.

Heleen co-founded KEY ESG and, using her practitioner knowledge, her ESG know-how, and her SaaS expertise, she created new tools to measure, manage, and report on ESG performance. Heleen is now CEO for KEY ESG, while acting as the designated ESG board member on 4 of her active investments. Heleen holds a Masters in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Heleen van Poecke

CEO and Co-Founder, KEY ESG

While working as a Private Equity professional at AlpInvest Partners and AtlasInvest, Heleen conducted several ESG consultant-led projects across her private market portfolio companies. She saw first-hand the difficulties that investors and management teams faced when it came to ESG management. Having previously worked with B2B SaaS Collibra, Heleen's 'lightbulb moment' occurred when she realised that SaaS could be the answer that the industry needed.

Heleen co-founded KEY ESG and, using her practitioner knowledge, her ESG know-how, and her SaaS expertise, she created new tools to measure, manage, and report on ESG performance. Heleen is now CEO for KEY ESG, while acting as the designated ESG board member on 4 of her active investments. Heleen holds a Masters in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Maria Carradice

Managing Director, Specialist – ESG, Mayfair Equity Partners

Maria joined Mayfair in 2015 to work alongside portfolio companies to identify, quantify and unlock business process improvement activities. Maria’s expertise as both a former practitioner and consultant allows her to focus on opportunities to drive incremental value in areas such as tax, ESG and finance with the aim of supporting the teams Mayfair partners with to deliver their plans faster or with less risk.

Prior to Mayfair Maria worked at LDC where she advised LDC and its portfolio companies on a wide range of M&A structuring, tax, operational and accounting issues as well as advising on fund structuring and related investor issues. Prior to that Maria worked for both Deloitte and Arthur Andersen in their private equity and international M&A groups.

Maria is a qualified accountant, tax and treasury adviser, has a first-class honours degree in Chemistry from The University of Surrey, a PhD in Nanotechnology from Cambridge University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Maria is also a member of the British Venture Capital Association’s Tax Committee and Responsible Investing Advisory Group.
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Maria Carradice

Managing Director, Specialist – ESG, Mayfair Equity Partners

Maria joined Mayfair in 2015 to work alongside portfolio companies to identify, quantify and unlock business process improvement activities. Maria’s expertise as both a former practitioner and consultant allows her to focus on opportunities to drive incremental value in areas such as tax, ESG and finance with the aim of supporting the teams Mayfair partners with to deliver their plans faster or with less risk.

Prior to Mayfair Maria worked at LDC where she advised LDC and its portfolio companies on a wide range of M&A structuring, tax, operational and accounting issues as well as advising on fund structuring and related investor issues. Prior to that Maria worked for both Deloitte and Arthur Andersen in their private equity and international M&A groups.

Maria is a qualified accountant, tax and treasury adviser, has a first-class honours degree in Chemistry from The University of Surrey, a PhD in Nanotechnology from Cambridge University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Maria is also a member of the British Venture Capital Association’s Tax Committee and Responsible Investing Advisory Group.
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Moti Shahani

Managing Director, Blue Ridge Partners

Revenue growth specialist with a McKinsey and hands-on entrepreneurial background. As a Managing Director with Blue Ridge Partners, I work collaboratively with CEOs, commercial leadership teams and Private Equity Operating Partners across Europe and transatlantically on improving growth strategy, commercial effectiveness and pricing.
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Moti Shahani

Managing Director, Blue Ridge Partners

Revenue growth specialist with a McKinsey and hands-on entrepreneurial background. As a Managing Director with Blue Ridge Partners, I work collaboratively with CEOs, commercial leadership teams and Private Equity Operating Partners across Europe and transatlantically on improving growth strategy, commercial effectiveness and pricing.
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Naresh Kumar

Independent Operating Partner

Naresh Kumar runs Operating Bridge Partners(OBP), which is a network of interim heavy-hitters operating as 'bridge' between investors and operators. OBP is not a consultancy and specialise only in ‘interim’ mandates to create, enhance or preserve value across investment lifecycle. Naresh himself works as either independent operating partner directly with funds or interim leader with a specific portfolio company in focus sectors. Previously, he worked at A&M, Accenture and Deloitte, where he advised clients on M&A, transformation and value creation. He is globally experienced having lived and worked in Europe, Americas, Middle-East and Asia. Naresh holds an MBA from Purdue University, USA.
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Naresh Kumar

Independent Operating Partner

Naresh Kumar runs Operating Bridge Partners(OBP), which is a network of interim heavy-hitters operating as 'bridge' between investors and operators. OBP is not a consultancy and specialise only in ‘interim’ mandates to create, enhance or preserve value across investment lifecycle. Naresh himself works as either independent operating partner directly with funds or interim leader with a specific portfolio company in focus sectors. Previously, he worked at A&M, Accenture and Deloitte, where he advised clients on M&A, transformation and value creation. He is globally experienced having lived and worked in Europe, Americas, Middle-East and Asia. Naresh holds an MBA from Purdue University, USA.
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Nicole Jones

Talent Director, Portfolio Support Group, Advent International

Nicole Jones joined Advent in 2020 as Talent Director within the Portfolio Support Group. She supports the creation and development of strong management teams and Boards across Advent's portfolio companies. Prior to joining Advent she was the HR Director, Investments, C&D and International at M&G plc and held Chief of staff roles at M&G and Prudential. She also ran Prudential’s Indian operations as well as the Communications function for M&G. Previously she spent five years at Egon Zehnder, leading mandates in search and assessment. Earlier in her career she was the Head of Investor Relations at a PE-backed outsourcing business after corporate finance and business development roles in the company through to IPO. She started her career in investment banking at Deutsche Bank in London.

She has a BA (Hons) from Queens University and an International MBA from Schulich School of Business in Canada.

Nicole works across Advent's European portfolio, including Donte Group (formerly Vitaldent), Evri (formerly Hermes UK), IDEMIA, Mediq, Planet, Rubix (formerly IPH-Brammer), TK Elevator and Williams Lea Tag.
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Nicole Jones

Talent Director, Portfolio Support Group, Advent International

Nicole Jones joined Advent in 2020 as Talent Director within the Portfolio Support Group. She supports the creation and development of strong management teams and Boards across Advent's portfolio companies. Prior to joining Advent she was the HR Director, Investments, C&D and International at M&G plc and held Chief of staff roles at M&G and Prudential. She also ran Prudential’s Indian operations as well as the Communications function for M&G. Previously she spent five years at Egon Zehnder, leading mandates in search and assessment. Earlier in her career she was the Head of Investor Relations at a PE-backed outsourcing business after corporate finance and business development roles in the company through to IPO. She started her career in investment banking at Deutsche Bank in London.

She has a BA (Hons) from Queens University and an International MBA from Schulich School of Business in Canada.

Nicole works across Advent's European portfolio, including Donte Group (formerly Vitaldent), Evri (formerly Hermes UK), IDEMIA, Mediq, Planet, Rubix (formerly IPH-Brammer), TK Elevator and Williams Lea Tag.
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Pia Heidenmark Cook

Senior Advisor, Teneo

Senior Advisor with Teneo, working with the ESG and Sustainability team to advise clients on how to develop and operationalise sustainability strategies and the implications for reputation strategies.

Prior to Teneo, Pia was the Chief Sustainability Officer for IKEA, where she led the development and implementation of the IKEA People and Planet Positive strategy. Her cross-functional team worked closely with the business on developing circular business models (including take back offers, leasing and second hand), launching new sustainable offers (such as selling solar panels across 14 markets) and helping customers to live more sustainable and healthier lives. During this time, IKEA ranked in the top three most sustainable brands and managed to decouple carbon dioxide emissions from its commercial growth across the value chain.

Pia has worked with sustainability in the corporate sector for over 25 years and, since leaving IKEA, combines senior advisory with board non-executive roles including Bupa, MAX Burgers and Origin Materials.
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Pia Heidenmark Cook

Senior Advisor, Teneo

Senior Advisor with Teneo, working with the ESG and Sustainability team to advise clients on how to develop and operationalise sustainability strategies and the implications for reputation strategies.

Prior to Teneo, Pia was the Chief Sustainability Officer for IKEA, where she led the development and implementation of the IKEA People and Planet Positive strategy. Her cross-functional team worked closely with the business on developing circular business models (including take back offers, leasing and second hand), launching new sustainable offers (such as selling solar panels across 14 markets) and helping customers to live more sustainable and healthier lives. During this time, IKEA ranked in the top three most sustainable brands and managed to decouple carbon dioxide emissions from its commercial growth across the value chain.

Pia has worked with sustainability in the corporate sector for over 25 years and, since leaving IKEA, combines senior advisory with board non-executive roles including Bupa, MAX Burgers and Origin Materials.
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Polly Barnes

Talent Operating Partner, EQT

Polly has spent the past 15 years as a Chief People Officer modeling and encouraging the human capabilities that deliver results in high-growth cultures. Enabling businesses to make more objective and impactful people decisions and building people teams and strategies from the ground up. She has worked in-house at global board level and as a consultant to Y1 start-ups. Assessed, hired and coached founders of three-person companies and CEOs of 3000-person companies; strengthening the C-Suite to scale businesses across four continents and over 30 markets. Within EQT Ventures Polly helps our portfolio companies increase speed and avoid de-raliers at each stage of their growth. Her passion is for proving the value-add contribution of the people and talent teams with data and helping Founders decide where to invest their efforts to build great cultures, fast.
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Polly Barnes

Talent Operating Partner, EQT

Polly has spent the past 15 years as a Chief People Officer modeling and encouraging the human capabilities that deliver results in high-growth cultures. Enabling businesses to make more objective and impactful people decisions and building people teams and strategies from the ground up. She has worked in-house at global board level and as a consultant to Y1 start-ups. Assessed, hired and coached founders of three-person companies and CEOs of 3000-person companies; strengthening the C-Suite to scale businesses across four continents and over 30 markets. Within EQT Ventures Polly helps our portfolio companies increase speed and avoid de-raliers at each stage of their growth. Her passion is for proving the value-add contribution of the people and talent teams with data and helping Founders decide where to invest their efforts to build great cultures, fast.
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Raouf Fria

Co-Founder, Actum Group

Raouf has 20+ years experience in business information, financial data and events.

He started his career in business information and intelligence with Marcus Evans, where he ran their capital markets and energy events division, with teams spanning across Europe, Americas and MENA.

In 2013 he joined Perfect Information, before its acquisition by Acuris (fka Mergermarket Group). Over a period of 8 years, he occupied various leadership roles across commercial, product and technology.

Raouf co-founded Actum Group having identified a gap in the market around the provision of reliable data and insights on value creation for the private equity community. He has a keen interest in PE as a whole, value creation more specifically, technological advancements and the industry’s resolute commitment to a broader positive impact.

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Raouf Fria

Co-Founder, Actum Group

Raouf has 20+ years experience in business information, financial data and events.

He started his career in business information and intelligence with Marcus Evans, where he ran their capital markets and energy events division, with teams spanning across Europe, Americas and MENA.

In 2013 he joined Perfect Information, before its acquisition by Acuris (fka Mergermarket Group). Over a period of 8 years, he occupied various leadership roles across commercial, product and technology.

Raouf co-founded Actum Group having identified a gap in the market around the provision of reliable data and insights on value creation for the private equity community. He has a keen interest in PE as a whole, value creation more specifically, technological advancements and the industry’s resolute commitment to a broader positive impact.

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Roberto Del-Maschio

CEO & Co-Founder, Siena Partnership

Roberto is CEO & Founder of the Siena Partnership and is a specialist in Executive Search and Interim Management within Private Equity backed businesses.

Roberto’s background spans fifteen years in an executive recruitment and consulting supporting the transformation and growth of private equity backed and listed businesses. Over this time, he has worked with some of the top 50 PE firms globally to deliver strategic executive and interim hires and team builds for complex transformation, Carve Out, and M&A programmes.
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Roberto Del-Maschio

CEO & Co-Founder, Siena Partnership

Roberto is CEO & Founder of the Siena Partnership and is a specialist in Executive Search and Interim Management within Private Equity backed businesses.

Roberto’s background spans fifteen years in an executive recruitment and consulting supporting the transformation and growth of private equity backed and listed businesses. Over this time, he has worked with some of the top 50 PE firms globally to deliver strategic executive and interim hires and team builds for complex transformation, Carve Out, and M&A programmes.
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Séverine De Wulf

Managing Director Portfolio Talent, Leadership & Governance, PAI Partners

Séverine joined PAI in 2019 as a member of the Portfolio Performance Group with a specific focus on talent, leadership and culture. She has extensive experience in Executive Search and Leadership Consulting helping leaders make the right decisions about the recruitment, assessment and development of talents, the constitution of efficient management teams and corporate governance. She spent the early part of her career in M&A and Corporate Finance at Goldman Sachs and as an investment professional at Vestar Capital Partners and Candover. She is a graduate from the Solvay Business School and holds an MBA from INSEAD. She is also a certified Executive Coach.
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Séverine De Wulf

Managing Director Portfolio Talent, Leadership & Governance, PAI Partners

Séverine joined PAI in 2019 as a member of the Portfolio Performance Group with a specific focus on talent, leadership and culture. She has extensive experience in Executive Search and Leadership Consulting helping leaders make the right decisions about the recruitment, assessment and development of talents, the constitution of efficient management teams and corporate governance. She spent the early part of her career in M&A and Corporate Finance at Goldman Sachs and as an investment professional at Vestar Capital Partners and Candover. She is a graduate from the Solvay Business School and holds an MBA from INSEAD. She is also a certified Executive Coach.
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Tara Reeves

Managing Director, Eurazeo

Tara is a Managing Director in the Venture team. Prior to joining, Tara was a partner at OMERS Ventures, the transatlantic venture fund, and Localglobe, one of Europe’s top-tier seed funds. She has led a number of investments across sectors, with a spike in fintech/insuretech, B2B, mobility and hardware. Before her investment career, Tara was an early employee of Wonga.com and co-founded Turo.com, the peer-to-peer car sharing service, which has raised approximately $450M of VC funding and is currently valued at more than $1B. Tara started her career in the M&A departments of Aon and Wachovia Insurance Services. Tara holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree from Oxford University..
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Tara Reeves

Managing Director, Eurazeo

Tara is a Managing Director in the Venture team. Prior to joining, Tara was a partner at OMERS Ventures, the transatlantic venture fund, and Localglobe, one of Europe’s top-tier seed funds. She has led a number of investments across sectors, with a spike in fintech/insuretech, B2B, mobility and hardware. Before her investment career, Tara was an early employee of Wonga.com and co-founded Turo.com, the peer-to-peer car sharing service, which has raised approximately $450M of VC funding and is currently valued at more than $1B. Tara started her career in the M&A departments of Aon and Wachovia Insurance Services. Tara holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree from Oxford University..
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Tim Cochrane

PARTNER-HEAD OF FPP, Montagu

Tim is Head of the Full Potential Partners, based in London. Tim joined Montagu in 2022 from Bain & Company, where he was Senior Partner in the Private Equity practice in London and where he spent seventeen years. Prior to this, Tim spent five years at Exxon Mobil Corporation.
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Tim Cochrane

PARTNER-HEAD OF FPP, Montagu

Tim is Head of the Full Potential Partners, based in London. Tim joined Montagu in 2022 from Bain & Company, where he was Senior Partner in the Private Equity practice in London and where he spent seventeen years. Prior to this, Tim spent five years at Exxon Mobil Corporation.
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Tim Nixon

CEO, Management Consulting, Teneo

Tim has 20+ years’ experience of strategy & transaction advisory in management consulting and senior industry roles and has lived and worked across the UK, India, South East Asia and the US.

As well as leading Teneo’s Management Consulting business, Tim’s client focus is advising leading technology firms and industry investors on critical issues, including strategy development, top-line growth, performance improvement and M&A. He has deep expertise in topics such as technology growth strategies, cloud transformation, technology pricing, offshore strategies and complex programme delivery.

He was previously a Partner with Credo, a boutique strategy consulting firm in London, which was founded in 1999 and acquired by Teneo in 2017.
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Tim Nixon

CEO, Management Consulting, Teneo

Tim has 20+ years’ experience of strategy & transaction advisory in management consulting and senior industry roles and has lived and worked across the UK, India, South East Asia and the US.

As well as leading Teneo’s Management Consulting business, Tim’s client focus is advising leading technology firms and industry investors on critical issues, including strategy development, top-line growth, performance improvement and M&A. He has deep expertise in topics such as technology growth strategies, cloud transformation, technology pricing, offshore strategies and complex programme delivery.

He was previously a Partner with Credo, a boutique strategy consulting firm in London, which was founded in 1999 and acquired by Teneo in 2017.
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Thomas Dixon

Managing Director, Portfolio Operations, Blackstone

Thomas Dixon is a Managing Director in the Blackstone European Private Equity Portfolio Operations team based in London.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Dixon worked at Alvarez & Marsal, Deloitte and EY leading performance improvement projects for PE portfolio companies.

Mr. Dixon graduated from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) with a BSc in Management (International Studies) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS).
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Thomas Dixon

Managing Director, Portfolio Operations, Blackstone

Thomas Dixon is a Managing Director in the Blackstone European Private Equity Portfolio Operations team based in London.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Dixon worked at Alvarez & Marsal, Deloitte and EY leading performance improvement projects for PE portfolio companies.

Mr. Dixon graduated from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) with a BSc in Management (International Studies) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS).
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Ursula Burns

Chairwoman, Teneo and Co-Founder of Integrum Holdings

Ursula Burns has extensive international experience in leading large companies that are facing technology sea changes within their industries.

Burns was the Chairman of the Board of Xerox Corporation from 2010 to 2017 and Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2016, after having been appointed President in 2007. Burns joined Xerox as a summer intern in 1980 and has since held leadership posts spanning corporate services, manufacturing and product development. During Burns’ tenure as Chief Executive Officer, Burns helped the company transform from a global leader in document technology to the world’s most diversified business services company serving enterprises and governments of all sizes. Shortly after being named CEO in 2009, Burns spearheaded the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services.

In 2016, Burns led Xerox through a successful separation into two independent, publicly traded companies – Xerox Corporation, which is comprised of the company’s Document Technology and Document Outsourcing businesses, and Conduent Incorporated, a business process services company. After her retirement from Xerox, Burns was appointed as Chairman of VEON, Ltd. in 2017. Burns became Chairman and CEO in December 2018 until June 2020. During her tenure at VEON, Burns successfully steered the company through various compliance and restructuring changes.

Burns is a member of the Uber Technologies, Inc., Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc., and IHS Holdings Board of Directors. She is also a founding partner of Integrum Holdings, a private equity firm, Non-Executive Chairman of Teneo Holdings LLC, and the Executive Chairman of Plum Acquisition Corp I. In addition, Burns is on several private company boards, while also providing leadership counsel to several other community, educational and non-profit organizations including the Ford Foundation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation, Cornell Tech Board of Overseers, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Mayo Clinic amongst others. She’s also on the Board Diversity Action Alliance, leading an effort to support diversity on corporate boards.

U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Burns to lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) from 2009 – 2016, and Burns served as Chair of the President’s Export Council from 2015 – 2016 after service as Vice Chair from 2010 – 2015. In February 2022, Burns joined the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Advisory Council on Supply Chain Competitiveness as Vice Chair.

Burns holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Burns is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Academy of Engineering and the G7 Gender Equity Advisory Council.
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Ursula Burns

Chairwoman, Teneo and Co-Founder of Integrum Holdings

Ursula Burns has extensive international experience in leading large companies that are facing technology sea changes within their industries.

Burns was the Chairman of the Board of Xerox Corporation from 2010 to 2017 and Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2016, after having been appointed President in 2007. Burns joined Xerox as a summer intern in 1980 and has since held leadership posts spanning corporate services, manufacturing and product development. During Burns’ tenure as Chief Executive Officer, Burns helped the company transform from a global leader in document technology to the world’s most diversified business services company serving enterprises and governments of all sizes. Shortly after being named CEO in 2009, Burns spearheaded the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services.

In 2016, Burns led Xerox through a successful separation into two independent, publicly traded companies – Xerox Corporation, which is comprised of the company’s Document Technology and Document Outsourcing businesses, and Conduent Incorporated, a business process services company. After her retirement from Xerox, Burns was appointed as Chairman of VEON, Ltd. in 2017. Burns became Chairman and CEO in December 2018 until June 2020. During her tenure at VEON, Burns successfully steered the company through various compliance and restructuring changes.

Burns is a member of the Uber Technologies, Inc., Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc., and IHS Holdings Board of Directors. She is also a founding partner of Integrum Holdings, a private equity firm, Non-Executive Chairman of Teneo Holdings LLC, and the Executive Chairman of Plum Acquisition Corp I. In addition, Burns is on several private company boards, while also providing leadership counsel to several other community, educational and non-profit organizations including the Ford Foundation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation, Cornell Tech Board of Overseers, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Mayo Clinic amongst others. She’s also on the Board Diversity Action Alliance, leading an effort to support diversity on corporate boards.

U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Burns to lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) from 2009 – 2016, and Burns served as Chair of the President’s Export Council from 2015 – 2016 after service as Vice Chair from 2010 – 2015. In February 2022, Burns joined the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Advisory Council on Supply Chain Competitiveness as Vice Chair.

Burns holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Burns is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Academy of Engineering and the G7 Gender Equity Advisory Council.
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Veronica Delgado

Independent Operating Partner

Veronica provides data-driven product growth strategies along with operational and financial planning solutions for startups committed to health or sustainability. Previously at Facebook, she worked on product development and monetization to build and globally scale business products, including customer data tools and location-powered advertising solutions.

Prior, while in the consumer industry, she focused on value creation through tech and digital innovation, consequently leading market expansion initiatives and the creation of elevated customer experiences to grow companies such as Ralph Lauren, J.Crew, Bluefly, and Disney. Veronica started her career at Citigroup working on financial advisory and transaction due diligence for large cap tech, consumer, and healthcare companies.

Veronica has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Economics from Duke University.
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Veronica Delgado

Independent Operating Partner

Veronica provides data-driven product growth strategies along with operational and financial planning solutions for startups committed to health or sustainability. Previously at Facebook, she worked on product development and monetization to build and globally scale business products, including customer data tools and location-powered advertising solutions.

Prior, while in the consumer industry, she focused on value creation through tech and digital innovation, consequently leading market expansion initiatives and the creation of elevated customer experiences to grow companies such as Ralph Lauren, J.Crew, Bluefly, and Disney. Veronica started her career at Citigroup working on financial advisory and transaction due diligence for large cap tech, consumer, and healthcare companies.

Veronica has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Economics from Duke University.
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Vipin Nair

Technology Operating Partner, KKR

Vipin Nair, based in London, GB, is currently a Digital Principal at KKR & Co. Inc., bringing experience from previous roles at McKinsey & Company, PocketMath and Accenture. Vipin Nair holds a 2004 - 2008 Bachelor of Engineering (BE) @ PIIT. With a robust skill set that includes OS X, System Monitoring, Infrastructure, Continuous Integration, Jenkins and more, Vipin Nair contributes valuable insights to the industry. Vipin Nair has 2 emails and 1 mobile phone number on RocketReach.
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Vipin Nair

Technology Operating Partner, KKR

Vipin Nair, based in London, GB, is currently a Digital Principal at KKR & Co. Inc., bringing experience from previous roles at McKinsey & Company, PocketMath and Accenture. Vipin Nair holds a 2004 - 2008 Bachelor of Engineering (BE) @ PIIT. With a robust skill set that includes OS X, System Monitoring, Infrastructure, Continuous Integration, Jenkins and more, Vipin Nair contributes valuable insights to the industry. Vipin Nair has 2 emails and 1 mobile phone number on RocketReach.
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Yohan Hill

Director of ESG and Responsible Investing, Adams Street Partners

As Director of ESG and Responsible Investing, Mr. Hill is the Chairperson of Adams Street’s Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee, and oversees Adams Street’s ESG efforts across all investment strategies. His career in the fields of ESG research and sustainability spans two decades, helping both companies and financial institutions minimize exposure to ESG risks and develop ESG strategies. Prior to joining Adams Street Partners, Mr. Hill worked at S&P Global Trucost where he provided data leveraged ESG insights to businesses and institutional investors.
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Yohan Hill

Director of ESG and Responsible Investing, Adams Street Partners

As Director of ESG and Responsible Investing, Mr. Hill is the Chairperson of Adams Street’s Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee, and oversees Adams Street’s ESG efforts across all investment strategies. His career in the fields of ESG research and sustainability spans two decades, helping both companies and financial institutions minimize exposure to ESG risks and develop ESG strategies. Prior to joining Adams Street Partners, Mr. Hill worked at S&P Global Trucost where he provided data leveraged ESG insights to businesses and institutional investors.
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