Growth Equity
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Michael is a Partner at Eight Roads Ventures in London, focusing on venture and growth investments in technology companies across Europe and Israel. Previously, he invested in technology companies at Accel in London, and Warburg Pincus in San Francisco and New York. Originally from Russia, Michael lived for 10 years in Germany, before spending another 10+ years in the US. He received a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Bjarne Kveim Lie is an entrepreneur, historian, and co-founder of Verdane, the Northern European specialist growth equity investor. Founded in 2003, Verdane was an early pioneer of portfolio investments and pursues a focused investment strategy centred on scaling tech-enabled businesses spanning digital consumer, software and energy & resource efficiency. To date, Verdane’s eight funds have attracted EUR2.1bn in committed capital, and its over 120 investments have returned over EUR1.5bn to investors at 3x cost.
He currently serves on the boards of EasyPark, Europe’s most popular parking app; Kappa Bioscience, a nutraceuticals pioneer; and Polytech, a global leader in wind turbine protection systems. Bjarne is the Chairman of the Nordic Microfinance Initiative and a Board member of the Norwegian Venture Capital Association.
A Harvard Business School Baker Scholar and former research associate at the European University Institute in Florence, Bjarne worked at McKinsey before joining the world of private equity from Paper X, a venture-backed B2B marketplace of which he was co-founder and COO. Despite his successful track record in investing, the 300-page thesis authored by Bjarne on the United Kingdom’s entry into the European Union regrettably failed to anticipate Brexit.
Darius is a Principal at Cebile Capital, and brings over 15 years of investment advisory and private equity experience to the firm.
Prior to joining Cebile, Darius was part of the Global Investment Research group at Cambridge Associates, where he was responsible for the evaluation of private investment managers and fund due diligence. Throughout his career, Darius has worked with a variety of clients, including institutional investors and private clients, advising on the construction of custom private equity portfolios and providing investment recommendations on specific fund opportunities.
Before joining Cambridge Associates, Darius was an Associate Director at Imprimatur Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm based in London. At Imprimatur, Darius was responsible for the identification and recruitment of C-Level professionals and advisors for Imprimatur’s investee businesses. Prior to Imprimatur, Darius was an analyst at Eden Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm, where he was responsible for assessing investment proposals and conducting market analysis due diligence.
Darius received a B.S.E. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, with a Certificate in Finance, from Princeton University.
Jin is responsible for Apis Partner’s new investments and portfolio management in early growth capital across global growth markets. He has spent 18 years investing in tech, industrial, and healthcare companies globally along with entrepreneurship endeavours. Prior to Apis, Jin directed European tech and industrial growth investments for GIC (Singapore sovereign wealth fund) and invested for T Rowe Price and Wellington Management. Jin started his career with JP Morgan and IFC where he focused on venture and growth equity/debt investments. Jin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton).
Tom Whelan focuses his practice on private equity, advising private equity sponsors, multi strategy funds, other private capital investors and corporates, helping them deploy capital across the world.
Tom handles buyouts, including secondary buy-outs and secondaries, take privates and co-investments, general M&A, bolt-ons, management incentive plans, restructurings and refinancings through to exits. During the course of any investment, Tom advises on portfolio company work and any changes to management incentive plans.
Tom regularly executes transactions in regulated sectors such as healthcare, technology, media and telecoms, financial services, water and energy, as well as handling many transactions in other sectors such as real estate, hotels and leisure, food, consumer and retail, industrial and automotive.