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Alain Gavin - managing partner |
Prof. Robert Gavin - associate |
Tel: +44 78 3012 9710........
Email: alain@psionpartners.com
Currently serving on the advisory panel of a versatile investment fund, Alain has over 20 years
of leadership and operational business experience in diverse organisations
Linkedin website profile for detailed CV
responsible for sourcing proprietary deal flow for High Net Worth individuals, family offices and Private Equity houses,
evaluating strategic due diligence and executing value extraction strategies in respect of portfolio companies e.g. RCapital,
Balmoral Capital, WHEB Partners, Beers & Partners EIS
- Over 10 years investment / portfolio management for companies in innovative technology sectors
- Investment Director at Pall Mall Partners Ltd.
- MD International Consulting : Strategic planning, analysis and capital growth acquisition across a diverse array of industries
- MSc/MBA London Business School Sloan programme
- VP Corporate Development & Value Based Management Schott AG Germany
- CEO Internet start-up Genee IT Holding GmbH Berlin
- Senior VP Daimler Chryler Rail Systems Ltd UK
- Project manager then Director Siemens AG (Transportation Systems Group), Germany/Japan
- Chartered Engineer with a first degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (BENG Hons)
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Tel: +44 78 6871 0788 Email: robert@psionpartners.com
Seasoned Academic Leader with 30+ years of experience in developing academic partnerships with
Industry to assist regional development and local regeneration
Linkedin website profile for detailed CV
does research for the projects and helps in the planning and production of company documentation; uses his network to find openings for portfolio companies
- Awarded CBE in 1994 in recognition of services to Higher Education in Northern Ireland
- Chairman of Foyle Development Organisation 1991-2005(Derry City Council's agency for promoting industrial and commercial development)
- Pro- Vice Chancellor for Research at Ulster University, 1988 - 1992
- Provost of Magee College, Londonderry - University of Ulster: planned and implemented a tenfold expansion of the college
- 5yrs Dean of Arts University of Ulster
- 9yrs growing and managing academic institutions in Nigeria (Zaria & Ilorin)
- 15 years university teaching in Cambridge, London & in Ibadan Nigeria
- MA and PHD from Cambridge University
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The team combines transactional, strategic, client-facing operational P&L, investment/divestment and entrepreneurial
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The team interacts on a daily basis with a valuable network of well placed people across a variety of industry settings to
achieve faster, more effective and well qualified action as well as generate a pipeline of proprietary deal flow origination.
Together we have built a strong network of 300+ family office, HNW and PE investors through active engagement in deal
origination and identification of investment opportunities suited to their interests.
This investment & transaction experience has been combined with operational, strategic management consultancy and strategic
corporate oversight of portfolio companies.
Worked on 80+ deals including sell-side and buy-side equity investments, equity funding (follow-ons), convertibles, valuations,
turnarounds, mergers and distressed companies. 7 issued in investments of over €3.8m from a pool of HNWs (High Net Worths) with
net assets totalling ca. €1.1 billion.
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