Antony Amalor

Associate
UK / Private Equity
Services, Software, Industrial Technology

Antony is an Associate in the UK Private Equity team.

He was involved in 3i’s investment in Digital Barriers and also supports on 3i’s investment in AESSEAL, a leading mechanical seals manufacturer.

Prior to joining 3i in February 2022, Antony worked in the EMEA Business Services Group at Morgan Stanley, advising clients on a range of transactions across the Business Services sector.

Antony holds a BSc (Hons) Finance from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School).

Simon Andersen

Digital Director
UK / Private Equity

Simon Friberg Andersen is a Digital Director based in London. His role is to drive digital strategies in 3i’s portfolio companies across Europe and the US and help add digital businesses to the 3i portfolio. He currently serves on the Board of Konges Sløjd.

Prior to joining 3i in 2018, Simon managed international ecommerce businesses at M&S (UK) and Woolworths (Australia), he co-founded a data start-up (Userneeds), and started his career at the Boston Consulting Group.

Simon graduated from the Copenhagen Business School, where he earned a MS in Business Administration majoring in Finance.

George Archer

Banking Partner
UK / Private Equity

George joined 3i in 2011 and is a Partner in its Banking Team. He has 28 years of banking experience and has worked on financing transactions for many of 3i’s current and former portfolio companies, including Action, Arrivia, Aspen Pumps, Audley Travel, Basic Fit, BoConcept, Cirtec Medical, Dutch Bakery, Dynatect, Element, Eltel, ESG, Hans Anders, Kinolt, Lekolar, MAIT, Magnitude, Mepal, MKM, OneMed, Q Holding, Royal Sanders, Sanisure, SLR, Wilson HCG and Yanga.

Prior to 3i, George worked at The Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of America and Barclays Capital, specialising in leveraged finance and sponsor coverage. He has also held positions in leveraged loan syndications and in corporate restructuring.

George holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College (University of London), a BSc (Hons) degree in Financial Services from UMIST and a MSc degree in Operational Research from Strathclyde University.

Sam Beach

Senior Associate
North America / Private Equity
Industrial Technology

Sam joined 3i in 2021 as a member of its North American Private Equity team based in New York.

Prior to joining 3i, Sam worked as an Associate at Windjammer Capital Investors, where he invested in a broad range of advanced manufacturing, specialty distribution, and business service industry sectors.  He was also previously an Analyst at Harris Williams & Co.

Sam received an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

Jake Behrman

Director
North America / Private Equity
Healthcare

Jake joined 3i in 2018 in the New York office and is a member of the Healthcare sector coverage team. Jake has been involved in 3i’s investments in Cirtec Medical, SaniSure, and ten23 Health.

Prior to joining 3i, Jake worked as an Associate at Metalmark Capital, a middle-market private equity that has managed more than $8 billion through its funds. While at Metalmark, he helped execute a number of platform investments and transformative portfolio company acquisitions. Jake was previously an Analyst in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley.

Jake graduated from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business with High Distinction.

Victor Bessis

Associate
UK / Private Equity
Consumer

Victor is an Associate in the Private Equity team based in London.

Prior to joining 3i in 2020, Victor gained internship experience in technology M&A at Cambon Partners in Paris and in Venture Capital at Global Founders Capital (Paris and New York).

Victor is involved with 3i's investment in MPM, an international leader in branded, premium, natural pet food.

Victor holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in International Finance from HEC Paris.

Casper de Bok

Associate
Benelux / Private Equity
Industrial Technology, Healthcare

Casper joined 3i in 2021 in the Benelux Private Equity team and is a deal team member of European Bakery Group, Royal Sanders and Basic-Fit.

Prior joining 3i, Casper gained internship experience in sell-side M&A at Lincoln International and mid-market Private Equity at Avedon Capital Partners.

Casper holds a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Delft.

Pierre-Axel Botuha

Partner
France / Private Equity
Consumer, Healthcare

Pierre-Axel is a Partner and was appointed Co-Head of the French Private Equity team in July 2023.

Prior to joining 3i in 2021, he was a Principal at L Catterton where he focused on consumer investments in Europe. Pierre-Axel began his career at La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild, advising on M&A transactions in France, Germany and China. He previously worked at BCG, supporting international strategy projects in the industrials, logistics and automotive sectors, and L-GAM, a UK-based, long-term oriented, private equity firm.

Pierre-Axel holds an MBA from INSEAD (with Distinction), a MSc in Engineering from Supelec Paris, and a Masters in Economics from Paris XI University.

William Bourne

Associate Director
UK / Private Equity

William is an Associate Director in the Banking Team within 3i Private Equity. He has worked on financings for a number of 3i's portfolio companies, including: Action, Cirtec Medical, Evernex, Formel D, Luqom, YDEON and VakantieDiscounter.

Prior to joining 3i in 2022, William spent seven years at Barclays Investment Bank working across a range of teams. He spent most of his time in Leveraged Finance, working on a range of European and cross border transactions for mid-market and large-cap buyouts and financings in all sectors, whilst specialising in TMT, Healthcare and Consumer businesses.

William holds a BSc in Geology from the University of Bristol.

Rémi Carnimolla

Partner, Managing Director
France / Private Equity
Consumer, Services, Software, Industrial Technology

Rémi joined 3i in 2003. He is currently the Head of the Paris office and is a member of the 3i Investment Committee. He sits on the Board of Evernex.

In 2019, Rémi led 3i’s investment in Evernex, a leading European provider of third party maintenance services for data centre infrastructure and soon after, in 2020, the transformative acquisition of Technogroup. In 2017, he led 3i’s investment in Havea, a European leader in the natural consumer healthcare industry which he successfully sold in July 2022 after having tripled its results with 5 acquisitions in Europe (Aragan, Densmore, Pasquali, Calmosine and ixX Pharma), an acceleration of organic growth with an enhanced and more focused marketing strategy and a full change and upgrade of the organisation. Rémi also led 3i’s investments in Keolis, Etanco, Vedici and Trescal as well as being involved in Geka, Atesteo, Formel D, Hans Anders, TCR and in 2021 MPM in the “natural pet food” segment. 

Prior to joining 3i, Rémi founded and headed a French venture capital firm in Tunisia and spent three years with McKinsey. 

Rémi has a degree in Accounting and Finance from the Paris Business School (ESCP) and an executive MBA (sponsored by McKinsey). 

Lauren Causon

Senior Legal Counsel
North America / Private Equity

Lauren joined 3i in 2019 and is based in the New York office, with responsibility for supporting the Private Equity team globally on new investments and divestments, portfolio matters and legal risk management.

Prior to 3i, Lauren was an associate in the corporate teams of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and Travers Smith LLP in London, where she advised private equity funds and portfolio companies on international M&A, management incentivisation, restructurings and refinancings. Lauren is qualified as a solicitor of the courts of England & Wales and is registered as a foreign-qualified in-house attorney in New York.

Lauren holds a BSc in Politics from the University of Bristol and completed her post-graduate legal studies at the University of Law, Guildford and BPP University, London.

Grace Chang

Associate Director
UK / Private Equity
Consumer

Grace is an Associate Director in the UK Private Equity team and is involved with 3i's portfolio company MPM. 

Prior to joining 3i in 2021, Grace was an investor at Apax Partners, focused on consumer retail, digital media and technology. Prior to Apax, Grace worked at Lazard in the M&A team, after having started her career in transaction services at KPMG.

Grace holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University, and a Master’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.

Sean Clark

Associate
North America / Private Equity
Industrial Technology

Sean joined 3i in 2022 as a member of its North American Private Equity team based in New York. Sean has since been involved in 3i’s investments in JMJ Associates and Dynatect.

Prior to joining 3i, Sean worked as an Analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking Group at Wells Fargo, where he focused on M&A advisory and capital raising transactions across all sectors.

Sean graduated magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University with a B.S. in Accounting.

James Cox

Portfolio Director, Asset Management Group
UK / Private Equity

James is a Director in 3i's Asset Management Group which manages investments in a range of companies across a variety of sectors and geographies.

He has been with 3i since 1998 having started his career at PiMS UK, a London based media services company, where he headed up the financial services team. James subsequently joined 3i’s London based portfolio management team in 2002 where his focus was managing higher value minority investments.

James has more than 20 years’ experience of managing minority and majority equity positions in Growth Capital and Buyout assets across a wide range of sectors. He has both invested in, and supported, companies at various stages of growth and completed a significant number of successful realisations.

Leo Deibel

Senior Associate
UK / Private Equity
Software, Industrial Technology, Services, Healthcare

Leo is a Senior Associate in 3i’s Private Equity team in London.

Prior to joining 3i, Leo worked in private equity at Core Equity Holdings and spent five years in strategy consulting with The Boston Consulting Group. During this time he covered a range of sectors and spent multiple years working and living in the US, Europe, China and the Middle East.

Leo holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School as well as a BA in Economics and Statistics from Swarthmore College.

Piotr Doniec

Director
Germany / Private Equity
Services, Software

Piotr joined 3i in 2017 and is a Director in the Private Equity team based in Frankfurt. He was a deal team member on 3i’s investments in Luqom Group, the largest European online specialist in the lighting space, and Formel D, a global service provider to the automotive and component supply industry. He currently sits on the board of Formel D.

Prior to joining 3i, Piotr gained work experience as a Consultant with McKinsey and in investment banking at Deutsche Bank. 

Piotr holds a Masters degree in Finance from HEC Paris and a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen.