Continued on-track growth - Ventizz reinforces its team
23. October 2008
Düsseldorf/St. Gallen: Ventizz Capital Partners has reinforced its team with two investment professionals. The new employees will be based at Ventizz Private Equity AG's offices in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The Group thus has a team of twelve investment professionals at its offices in Düsseldorf and St. Gallen. The company exclusively advises the private equity fund Ventizz Capital Fund I-IV L.P with a total fund volume of EUR 675 million.
Dr. Jochen Brellochs and Christof Knop have joined the team.
Prior to joining Ventizz, Dr. Jochen Brellochs used to work as a strategy team consultant for M&A with Deloitte Consulting in Zurich and London. He gained his doctorate from IMD International in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Technical University of Berlin while also working as a management consultant.
Christof Knop held a leading position (Principal) in the Hamburg office of the international private equity company BC Partners. He was previously employed by Bain & Company management consultants in Boston, USA and Munich, and gained his MBA from Harvard Business School.
"We are very pleased to be able to reinforce our team by adding these two top experts," commented Dr. Helmut Vorndran, Ventizz Capital Partners' CEO and Managing Partner. "We plan to make other new hires. After closing its fourth fund, Ventizz is in a dynamic phase with a very high non-invested portion of the current fund. Our investment professionals closely analyze which high-growth high-tech companies Ventizz can help to expand. For example, we believe that companies in the renewable energy segment offer great potential. This is true, in particular in the photovoltaic and wind energy segments, and private equity can help these companies to develop their potential even more strongly and rapidly," Dr. Vorndran went on to say.
The private equity funds that Ventizz advises primarily invest in small and medium-sized high-growth companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The investment focus is on the renewable energy segment, medical technology, information and communication technology and other branches of industry which offer high value added. Ventizz Capital Fund IV L.P. is the largest of the four funds set up to date. After a six-months of fund-raising, this fund was closed at the end of 2007 with a volume of EUR 450 million and is thus one of the largest private equity funds for venture capital and medium-sized tech buy outs in the German-speaking region.
Company profile
Ventizz Capital Partners was formed in 2000 and has offices in St. Gallen and Düsseldorf. The company exclusively advises private equity funds that mostly invest in buy-out transactions and high-growth opportunities in small and medium-sized high-tech companies in the German-speaking region. Ventizz has three partners: Dr. Helmut Vorndran, Reinhard Löchner and Willi Mannheims. Together with a team of twelve professionals they currently advise four funds with capital totaling EUR 675 million. To date, Ventizz has invested in 29 companies focusing on renewable energy, medical technology, information and communication technology and on other branches of industry offering high value-added. In addition to a large number of trade sales, Ventizz has successfully placed three of its participating interests (Ersol, SAF, PV Crystalox Solar) on the stock exchange.
On the Internet at: www.ventizz.com
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