CAPITAL ONE PARTNERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Forum Finance Group S.a
Etienne is an independent Board Member at K1P.
Etienne is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Forum Finance Group S.A.. He was previously the CEO of Forum Finance from 2009 to 2022, having been a Managing Partner since 2003. He joined Forum Finance in 2000, following a 20 year long career as a private banker and investment banker at Pictet & Cie, UBS and Merrill Lynch in Geneva, London and New York, respectively.
Johannes is also Partner at GenCap in charge of monitoring some single largest shareholder transactions, with a friendly activist approach on Public Equities in Germany and selected Private Equity projects, for total investments advised of more than 3.
Passionate about civilizations, Johannes has been around the world twice, speaks seven languages and is keen on Latinum and Graecum.
Executive leader and highly effective team builder with a strong interest in business operations, Lamia is adept at efficiently distilling complicated and complex problems into easily understandable steps to achieve resolution. She is also focused on mentoring team members and empowering individuals.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner of of GenCap
Philipp is a serial-entrepreneur and Founding Partner of K1P.
After founding a Private Equity buy-outs investment firm focusing on middle market turnaround companies, built from scratch to 3,000 employees, he was instrumental in Venture Capital investments in several start-up companies, leading a software firm for internet banking, merged with an 8bn listed company.
Since 2005, Philipp has been the Founding Partner of of GenCap ("General Capital Group GmbH") focused on single largest share holder transactions of six globally leading German companies for more than 3.3bnEUR equity notional (MDAX and DAX companies including Volkswagen, Siemens, ThyssenKrupp, BASF und Lanxess), companies with an exit valuation of 10bnEUR generating 37% IRR to his investors.
Philipp brings to the team 35 years of experience in entrepreneurship, strategic development, Corporate Governance, and investment. He is visionary, fast thinker, thirsted by hard work and disruptive innovations.