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.

Aaron Church

Partner
UK / Infrastructure

Aaron is a Partner in the Infrastructure team based in London, with a focus on origination, execution and asset management of investments in Europe. He has played a key role in 3i's acquisitions of Attero, Joulz, Herambiente, ESVAGT, Infinis and Tampnet, and is a director on the boards of Joulz and Oystercatcher.

Prior to 3i, Aaron worked for HRL Morrison & Co, a major Australasian headquartered infrastructure fund manager, and the Boston Consulting Group.

Aaron holds a B.Com from the University of Canterbury and a M.B.A. (Distinction) from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

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.

Rob Collins

Managing Partner, Head of North American Infrastructure
North America / Infrastructure

Rob joined 3i in 2017 as the Managing Partner for North American Infrastructure. He is a member of 3i’s Executive Committee. At 3i, he has led the US infrastructure team’s investments in Smarte Carte, Regional Rail and EC Waste. 

Prior to joining 3i, Rob led Hastings Funds Management’s infrastructure investment activities in North America & Europe and was a member of Hastings’ Executive Committee and Investment Committee.

Previously, Rob founded the infrastructure M&A practice at Morgan Stanley and Greenhill where he was a Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Investment Banking for the Americas at both firms. He started his infrastructure career at Goldman Sachs after spending five years as an active-duty, Naval officer in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Program.

Rob holds an MBA from The Wharton School, a masters equivalent in nuclear engineering from the Bettis Reactor Engineering School, and a B.E., magna cum laude, in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University.

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.

Gordon Craig

Director, Internal Audit
UK

Gordon joined 3i in 2000 and heads up the Internal Audit function based in London.

He is responsible for providing internal audit services as well as advice and support across a range of areas including corporate governance and risk management.

Prior to 3i, Gordon worked with PwC in both the UK and Netherlands before moving to the internal audit profession working initially in the consumer and healthcare sector.

Gordon has an MA in Economics from the University of St. Andrews. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Financial Risk Manager and Certified Fraud Examiner, and is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Stephen Daintith

Non-Executive Director
Board of Directors

Non-executive Director since October 2016. Chief Financial Officer and an executive director of Ocado Group plc.

Formerly an executive director of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc from 2017 to March 2021 and Finance Director of Daily Mail and General Trust plc (“DMGT”) from 2011 to 2017. Non-executive director of ZPG Plc.

Prior to joining DMGT he was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Dow Jones and prior to that Chief Financial Officer of News International. He originally qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse (now part of PwC).

James Dawes

Chief Financial Officer
UK / Infrastructure

James is Chief Financial Officer for 3i Group's Infrastructure business and joined in January 2016. He manages all of the operational, financial and reporting requirements for the Infrastructure business line within 3i Group, as well as performing CFO duties for 3i Infrastructure plc.

Prior to joining 3i, James was with Legal & General Investment Management where he held a number of senior finance roles, including Finance Director of LGV Capital from 2007 to 2015.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

John Decesare

Director, Group Compliance
UK

John is Director, Group Compliance and is responsible for regulatory compliance at 3i. He joined 3i’s in-house legal team in 1997, providing wide-ranging legal support to 3i’s investment and corporate activities worldwide until he took over responsibility for the compliance function in 2010. 

Prior to joining 3i, he worked as a solicitor in private practice and remains admitted to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales. 

John is also a member of the BVCA’s Regulatory Committee and has represented that Committee on the board of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group.

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.

Anna Dellis

Partner
UK / Infrastructure

Anna Dellis joined the Infrastructure team in 2006 and became a partner in 2018. Since then she leads asset management for the portfolio of economic infrastructure investment held in funds 3i Infrastructure plc and 3i Managed Infrastructure Acquisitions Limited. This role includes oversight of portfolio company performance; recruitment of board members and senior executives for portfolio companies; and delivery of cross-portfolio initiatives to protect and grow value.

Anna has direct investment experience across a number of sectors including oil storage (Oystercatcher); utilities (Elenia and ESP) and transport (Eversholt and BCA). Currently she represents Oystercatcher on the board of Advario Singapore Limited. Since August 2022 she is responsible for the team’s investment in DNS:NET which is rolling out fibre-to-the-home in the Berlin vicinity.

Prior to joining 3i Anna qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and advised on infrastructure finance at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She has a degree in German and French from the University of Nottingham.

Adrien Delmotte

Director
UK / Infrastructure

Adrien is a Director in 3i’s Infrastructure team in London and joined in September 2015. He is primarily responsible for the origination and execution of deals in the infrastructure sector.

He is currently involved in TCR and Valorem.

Prior to joining 3i, Adrien worked in the investment banking division of Société Générale, advising on Financial Institution Group transactions.

Adrien graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique.

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.

Kevin Dunn

General Counsel and Company Secretary
UK

Responsible for 3i’s legal, compliance, internal audit, and company secretarial functions. A member of the Executive Committee since joining 3i in 2007.

Prior to joining 3i, was a Senior Managing Director, running GE’s European Leveraged Finance business after serving as European General Counsel for GE. Prior to GE, was a partner at the law firms Travers Smith and Latham & Watkins.