Inflexion, a leading European mid‑market private equity firm, is pleased to announce a record number of promotions across its 200-strong team. Reflecting Inflexion’s ongoing commitment to career development, the promotions come amid a period of strong growth for the firm, including the successful close of Inflexion Buyout Fund VII at €4.5 billion and continued investment activity across all three of its fund strategies.
Tom Pemberton has been appointed to Head of Enterprise whilst continuing to lead Inflexion's Consumer sector. Enterprise is Inflexion's lower mid-market strategy focused on backing entrepreneurial businesses with high growth potential, typically valued up to €175 million. Tom joined Inflexion in 2017 as part of the Enterprise team before moving to lead the Consumer sector. He brings extensive expertise sourcing and evaluating opportunities and leading high growth investments across the consumer, consumer technology and services sectors. Malcolm Coffin, who has led the Enterprise strategy since 2022, will remain with the firm in a senior role including representing Inflexion on the Board of Aspen Pumps.
Freddy West has been appointed as Inflexion’s first Chief People Officer. Having joined Inflexion in 2022, she has since transformed how the firm approaches portfolio talent and human capital. This newly created firm-wide role expands her remit to cover internal talent management alongside her existing portfolio responsibilities.
Sachin Mitra, James Stevens and Freddy West have all been promoted to Partner, recognising their significant contribution to the firm.
In total, 42 Inflexion professionals have been promoted.
Investment and Value Acceleration teams:
- Adam Moss, Nick Rosenberg, Daan Gankema and Mike Arshinskiy have all been promoted to Managing Director
- William An, Nick Davies, Toby Lane, Cameron Lenton, Ada Pham, Heng Schiltges, Umberto Massucco, Jack Weller and Will Menz have all been promoted to Director
- Daan de Bruin, John Ekstedt, Cameron Rule, Martin Voelker, Kate Washington and Stefano Zocchi have all been promoted to Assistant Director
- Chessie Broadhurst and Emilie Le Querec have been promoted to Origination Manager
Specialist Function teams:
- Finance, Funds and Portfolio: Jack Pearson, Phil Chin and Ionela Wiseman to Director; Lizzy Grinnell and Matthys Davis to Assistant Director; Nancy Kelleher to Senior Manager; Fahad Raja to Fund Controller; Sharon Harrison-Merchant to Manager; Stephanie Pipe to Corporate Accountant
- Legal, Tax & Compliance: Hannah Berdal and Jessica Rodriguez to Senior Legal Counsel, Lucinda White to Senior Tax Counsel, Alina Rotari to Senior Compliance Manager
- Investor Relations: Georgina Hinckley, James Taylor and Willemijn Nederlof to Assistant Director
- Marketing & Communications: Teaghan Mills to Assistant Director
- Operations: Harry Jones to Manager
In the past 12 months, Inflexion has made 41 new appointments across the firm, further strengthening its sizeable investment, value acceleration and specialist function teams. Inflexion now has over 200 employees across 6 global locations spanning London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, New York, Singapore and Stockholm.
At its core, private equity is a talent business, and at Inflexion, that conviction is foundational to everything we do: how we hire, how we develop people and how we create the conditions for ambitious individuals to build long-term careers. This year's record promotions reflect that depth of talent, and I would like to congratulate each team member on a thoroughly well-deserved achievement.
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