HgCapital today announces a number of promotions, including that of Alex King to Partner.

Alex joined the firm in May 2005 as an Associate Director and was appointed Sector Head for TMT in 2010. He has helped lead highly successful investments in a number of realised portfolio companies, which have generated significant returns for our clients, including CSG, Visma and Addison. He has also led or co-led a number of our recent investments including Epyx, TeamSystem and Manx Telecom.

In addition, Jonathan Boyes (TMT), Rob De Laszlo (Renewable Energy) and Justin Leong (Healthcare) are promoted to Director and Sascha Kaumann (Industrials) is promoted to Associate Director. 

Core to the HgCapital investment strategy are large sector teams with deep expertise and the ability to support the best European management teams in developing industry champions. These promotions reflect continued investment in recruiting and actively nurturing the very best talent to become experts within these sectors. 

Nic Humphries, Partner and Chief Executive, said: “We are delighted to announce the promotion of these team members who have delivered strong returns for investors by careful and patient work to develop promising European companies into outstanding performers within their industry sub-sectors.   HgCapital invests heavily in finding the most talented individuals and believes that actively supporting their development to become sector experts will create long-term value for our clients.”