Sir Ronald Cohen is Chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges
Ventures and a Director of Social Finance. He was the
founding partner and former chairman of Apax Partners.
Sir Ronald is a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, on the
Board of Dean's Advisers at Harvard Business School, a
Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University and a member of the
University of Oxford Investment Committee. He is also a
Trustee of the British Museum.
He was a founder director and past chairman of the British
Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European
Venture Capital Association. He was also a founder and former
Vice-Chairman of EASDAQ and former director of NASDAQ Europe.
He was Chairman of the Social Investment Taskforce and the
Commission on Unclaimed Assets.
He has recently published "The Second Bounce of the Ball -
Turning Risk into Opportunity" about entrepreneurship.
He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was president of
the Oxford Union, an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, and has an
MBA from Harvard Business School, to which he was awarded a Henry
Fellowship. Sir Ronald was a recipient of the HBS Alumni
Achievement Award.
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Peter Englander, a former Partner with 30 years' service,
retired from Apax in November 2011.
He joined the firm in 1981 when the first UK fund was raised and
represented Apax Partners on the boards of over 20 portfolio
companies including Asquith Court, Dr Solomon's, Eyretel, QXL and
Waterstone. Overall, he has been associated with nine IPOs and 19
trade sales for Apax portfolio companies.
Prior to joining Apax Partners, Peter worked for Air Products
and then for the Boston Consulting Group.
Peter holds a First Class Honours Degree in Chemical Engineering
from Manchester University and won a Kennedy Scholarship to the
Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He subsequently obtained a PhD from London University
in the area of the Economics of Technological Innovation.
Peter is currently a Trustee and Chair of the Finance Committee
of the Kennedy Memorial Trust. He is also a member of the Bridges
Ventures Board.
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Martin Halusa was elected Chief Executive Officer of Apax
Partners in October 2003. In 1990, he co-founded Apax Partners in
Germany as Managing Director. His investment experience has been
primarily in telecommunications and service industries.
He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group ('BCG') in
Germany and left as a Partner and Vice President of BCG worldwide
in 1986. He joined Daniel Swarovski Corporation, Austria's largest
private industrial company, first as President of Swarovski Inc
(US) and later as the Director of International Holding in
Zurich.
A graduate of Georgetown University, Martin received his MBA
from the Harvard Business School and his PhD in Economics from the
Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck.
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Irina Hemmers is a Partner in the Media team based in London.
Irina originally joined Apax Partners in 2001 in Munich, and
relocated to Hong Kong to support Apax's investment activities in
Greater China through 2008. Irina has both led and
participated in a number of key deals including Trader Corporation,
Soufun, Trader Media Group, Emap, Sulo, ALM/Incisive Media, PCM and
Truvo. She is a director on the boards of Trader Corporation,
Trader Media Group, Emap and HIT Entertainment, and previously
served on the boards of Sulo and ISC/World Rally Championship.
Prior to joining Apax Partners, Irina was a consultant with
McKinsey & Company where she advised clients in the media and
financial services industries.
Irina holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and an MA in
economics from Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck,
Austria.
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Khawar Mann is a Partner and Co-Head of the Healthcare group and
is based in London. Khawar has specialised in Healthcare
since 2003, when he joined Apax Partners. He has both
led and participated in a number of key deals, including
General Healthcare Group Ltd, Capio, Unilabs, Apollo Hospitals and
Marken. He serves as a board member or observer on all of
these companies.
Prior to joining Apax Partners, Khawar was the Chief Business
officer of Weston Medical Group PLC, an innovative medical devices
business. Prior to that, Khawar was a lawyer at Linklaters in
London and Hong Kong, specialising in healthcare and corporate
finance.
Khawar holds a Masters degree in Medical Sciences and Law from
Cambridge University and also an LLM Master of Law. He has an
MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he
was a Thouron and Fulbright scholar.
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David Marks is a Partner and Director of Tax based in the
London office. He also serves as a trustee of the Apax
Foundation.
Before joining Apax, David was a senior tax partner with Deloitte
LLP and prior to that, with Arthur Andersen and had
advised Apax on taxation matters since 1980.
David holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics
and Political Science. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of the
Chartered Institute of Taxation.
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John Megrue is the CEO of Apax Partners US and Head of
the Retail & Consumer Group. He is a member of
the Executive and Investment Committees as well as the
Approval, Exit and Portfolio Review Committees.
John had originally joined Apax in 1988 and rejoined in 2005
from Saunders, Karp & Megrue which he co-founded in 1990. Prior
to SKM, John served as Vice President and Principal at Patricof
& Co. (an Apax predecessor), where he specialised in buyouts
and late stage growth financings.
John is a graduate of Cornell University, where he received a BS
in Mechanical Engineering, and received his MBA from the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Board memberships include Advantage Sales & Marketing, Bob's
Discount Furniture, HUB International and rue 21.
John is also a Director on the Board of Millennium Promise, the
United States' only international non-profit organisation solely
committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals set by the UN to halve extreme poverty by
2015.
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Michael Phillips is a Partner and member of the Executive,
International Investment, Approval, Portfolio Review and Exit
Committees. He is based in Munich, is Head of the Munich office and
co-heads the Financial & Business Services team.
Michael originally joined Apax Partners in 1992. He has both led
and participated in a number of key deals including Sulo, IFCO
Systems and Tommy Hilfiger. He has served as an advisor and board
member to a number of Apax portfolio companies including
Xerium, IFCO Systems, Tommy Hilfiger, Travelex and Capio.
Prior to joining Apax Partners Michael spent three years at OTTO
Holding Ltd in Cologne, one of Germany's largest waste management
companies, as the general manager of an operations subsidiary and
four years at Ciba-Geigy Canada, as an engineer in their Plastics
Additives Division.
Michael holds a BS in Engineering Chemistry from Queen's
University in Kingston Canada and also an MBA from INSEAD.
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Richard Wilson is a Partner and chairs Apax's Tech & Telecom
Advisory Board. He previously lead the Tech &
Telecom team and sat on Apax's Investment, Exit and Portfolio
Review Committees. He joined Apax in January 1995 and has led
investments in companies such as Inmarsat, TDC, Weather Investments
and Mobifon. Prior significant investments in which he was involved
include Autonomy, Jazztel and Demon Internet, amongst others.
He has served on the boards of a number of portfolio companies, was
Chairman of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital
Association and Chairman of the Public Affairs Executive for
2009-2010, overseeing the industry response to the proposed AIFM
Directive, and is a Council Member of the British Private Equity
and Venture Capital Association.
Prior to joining Apax, he was a consultant with Scientific Generics
Ltd and a mechanical engineer with Marconi Space Systems Ltd.
Richard has an MA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge,
an MBA from INSEAD, and is a Chartered Engineer.
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