Agilitas focus on making transformational investments in defensible businesses. The team was founded in 2011 by an experienced and successful team of former colleagues who had previously invested €1.5bn in 28 private equity transactions across Europe.

The team combines private equity, M&A, consulting and operational skills and is truly European, consisting of 7 different nationalities and speaking 9 languages.

Saad Akram is a Transformation Consultant at Agilitas, focussing on sourcing and executing acquisition and financing opportunities within portfolio companies. Previously he held investment banking roles with Barclays Capital, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and HSBC having started his career as an Engineer at Nokia.

Saad holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth Business School and an MSc in Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. He speaks both Danish and English.

Martin Calderbank is Managing Partner at Agilitas. With many years experience in the industry, Martin focuses on the unique attribute of private equity over other equity models: the ability to support strong managers leading their companies through transformational change.

Martin started his career with McKinsey before moving into private equity. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University. He speaks English and French.

Rachel Dales acts as Team Assistant. She has worked in residential and administrative positions within education and the fashion industry.

Rachel holds a BA(Hons) in Music from SOAS University.

Anne-Claire de Pompignan is Head of Investor Relations at Agilitas. She has over ten years of private equity and private debt experience, focussing on Capital Markets and investing private debt in pan-European mid-market buy-outs.

Prior to that, Anne-Claire worked as an analyst in the Leveraged Finance team of Lehman Brothers. Anne-Claire is a native French speaker and holds a post graduate degree from University Paris-IX Dauphine.

Liam Goddard joined the investment team in May 2016 and has over ten years of private equity experience.

Prior to working in private equity, Liam started his career at Accenture as a strategy consultant (2004-06).

Liam holds a MA in Computer Science from Cambridge University.

Arjan Hannink joined Agilitas in 2015 from A.T. Kearney, where during 7 years he focussed on due diligence work and strategic, operational and organisational projects for PE funds and CxO-level clients in major companies. He has completed over 30 projects and worked in 9 different countries.

Arjan holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc in IT in Business from Leiden University and a BSc in Economics and Informatics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Arjan speaks Dutch, French and English.

Kevin Iermiin is part of the investment team, having started his private equity career at Agilitas. Previously he held investment banking roles with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers in London, Gudme Raaschou in Copenhagen and served as a First Lieutenant in the Royal Danish Army.

Kevin holds an MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School and speaks both Danish and English.

Anne-Marie Laing is a Transformation Consultant at Agilitas. She has worked both directly with and as a part of management teams for over 20 years, helping them to improve their operational performance and has led a number of transformational projects across multiple sectors, predominately in Europe.

She commenced her career at Arthur Andersen before working at Zolfo Cooper and most recently at AlixPartners. She is a fellow of the ICAEW.

Panos Loizou is a Transformation Consultant at Agilitas. He has held senior non-executive roles in businesses alongside private equity firms since 2000, contributing operational and restructuring expertise to a number of investments. Prior to this he held executive positions at GE and Pepsico. He started his career with OC&C Strategy Consultants in London.

Panos holds an MBA from IMD Business School and a PhD and BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He speaks Greek and English.

Torbjorn Midsem has worked with private equity firms in London and Stockholm and has contributed to a range of acquisitions since 2002.

Torbjorn holds an MSc in Economics and Business Administration from NHH (Norway) and speaks Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, English and German.

Debojit Mukherjee acts as Chief Operating Officer at Agilitas, having worked as COO and CFO with private equity firms in London since 2009. Earlier career positions included Director of Operations and Finance at Carbon Capital Markets and IBD Analyst at Barclays Capital.

Debojit holds a BSc in Economics from University College London and is a fellow of the ICAEW.

Antoine Rouland is part of the investment team at Agilitas and has been working in private equity as an investment professional since 2011. Prior to that he was a Project Manager with Booz & Company, the global management consulting firm.

Antoine trained as an engineer and obtained an MEng from the French Military Academy of Saint-Cyr before spending four years in the French Army. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and speaks French and English.

Louise Stamper has been with Agilitas since inception and she is responsible for administration and office management. She holds an MA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge.

Aleix Sumpsi joined Agilitas in 2016 from Morgan Stanley, where he held investment banking roles from 2010 to 2016, in Madrid and in London.

Aleix holds an MSc in Management from HEC Paris and an MSc in Civil Engineering from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. He speaks Spanish, Catalan, French, English and Portuguese.

Serge Touati has been working in private equity since 1999. During this period he has played a prominent role in investments in France, Italy, Denmark and Benelux. In his earlier career he held positions with Merrill Lynch and Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux.

Serge studied at ESSEC and speaks French and English.

Paul Woodland acts as Chief Financial Officer. Paul has over 17 years experience of finance and operations in Private Equity from a number of different firms.