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FINANCIAL AND LEGAL INFORMATION 1 Business description
The investment team is organised by sector and has specialists
in areas such as Business Development, Financing and Investor
Relations.
Bruno Candelier (47) joined Apax Partners in 2001 and was
appointedpartner in 2011. He is themanager of Retail &Consumer
investments. He started his career in 1996 as a junior consultant
then senior consultant at McKinsey & Co. in Paris, London and
Johannesburg. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Mines
in Paris and also holds an MBA from INSEAD.
Monique Cohen (61) has been a partner at Apax Partners since
2000. She is responsible for Business & Financial Services
investments andalsoheads up theBusinessDevelopment activity.
She began her career at Paribas where, after several years, she
became head of Equity Capital Markets and then Senior Banker.
At BNP Paribas she was Global Head of Equity. Ms Cohen is a
director of the Safran and BNP Paribas groups and a member
of the Supervisory Boards of JCDecaux and Hermès. She was
also a member of the Board of the AMF (Autorité des Marchés
Financiers) from 2011 to 2014. She is a graduate of the Ecole
Polytechnique.
Franck Hagège (42) joined Apax Partners in 2004 as a member
of the Retail & Consumer team. He began his career in 1998 as
a management consultant with A.T. Kearney where he worked
on strategic and operational assignments for major groups and
investment funds for five years. He also worked for one year at
NetsCapital where he was involved in M&A transactions in the
telecom and media sectors. Mr. Hagège is a graduate of HEC
Business School.
Eddie Misrahi (62) joined Apax Partners in 1991 as a Partner in
charge of investments in TMT. He has supported the growth of
young, innovative companies ormoremature companies through
growth financing and buyout transactions. He became Deputy
Chief ExecutiveOfficer of ApaxPartners SA in2007 andChairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Apax Partners MidMarket in 2010.
He startedhis career atMcKinsey&Co. inParis then inMexicoCity,
before working at a US telecommunications group in the United
States. He was president of the AFIC (Association Française
des Investisseurs pour la Croissance) for financial year 2007/08.
Mr. Misrahi is a graduate of EcolePolytechnique andholds anMBA
from Harvard Business School.
Bertrand Pivin (56) joined Apax Partners in 1993 and was
appointed partner in 1998. He specialises in the Business &
Financial Services and Healthcare sectors. He began his career
as an R&D engineer at Alcatel in France, and was subsequently a
project manager at Alcatel Network Systems in the United States
where he supervised development projects for North American
Telecom operators. He is the partner in charge of responsible
investment policy at Apax Partners MidMarket. He is a graduate
of EcolePolytechnique andTelecomParis Tech, andholds anMBA
from Harvard Business School.
Gilles Rigal (58) joined Apax Partners in 2001 as a partner and
specialises in theTMT (Technology, Media andTelecom) sector. He
began his career as an entrepreneur, founding IGL, a software and
IT services company that he sold five years later toThales. He then
joinedMcDonnell Douglas InformationSystems, wherehebecame
divisional director, thenSystar, an international software company
based inFrance, where hewas in turnGeneral Manager for France,
Europe and for worldwide operations. In 1995, he joined BMC
Software, the world’s fifth-largest software company as General
Manager France andvice-president ofmarketingand reseller sales
for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has an engineering
degree fromENSEEIHT (Toulouse) and a graduate degree (DEA)
in robotics from the University of Toulouse.
Thomas de Villeneuve (44) joined Apax Partners in 2001 and
was appointed partner in 2008. He specialises in investments in
the TMT sector, and started his career with the BostonConsulting
group, where he primarily worked in the media and telecom
sector, both in Paris and in New York. Mr. de Villeneuve holds a
degree from HEC Business School.
APAX PARTNERS LLP
Apax Partners LLP is a London-based management company
that is 90% held by its 19 equity partners and 10% held by three
sovereign funds (GIC, CIC and Future Fund). The 19 equity
partners have on average 23 years of professional experience
and 15 years of seniority at Apax.
The investment team is composedofmore than 100professionals
based in eight officesworldwide (London, NewYork, Munich, Tel-
Aviv, Mumbai, Shanghai, Hongkong and São Paulo).
The staff are organised in four global sector teams – TMT, Retail &
Consumer, Healthcare, Services – andwork in close collaboration
with executives from:
theOperational Excellence team(14people)whoprovidedirect
support to management teams to accelerate value creation;
the Digital team (composed of executives who also have roles
in sector teams and Operational Excellence team), who focus
on pure digital investing and provide expertise to the four
investment sectors;
the Capital Markets team (3 people), who create innovative
financing solutions for portfolio companies.
The strategy and operations of Apax Partners LLP are led by
Co-CEOs AndrewSillitoe (London) andMitch Truwit (NewYork).
AndrewSillitoe (44) is co-CEOof Apax Partners and a Partner in
the Tech & Telco team. Andrew is also amember of the Executive,
Investment, Approval, Portfolio Review and Exit Committees. He
has been based in London since joining the firm in 1998 and has
focused on the technology & telecommunications sectors in that
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