Alain Gavin has worked as an investment director at Pall Mall Partners (PMP), a private equity/VC fund manager investing in small to mid cap businesses in the UK and Germany.

At Psion Partners he works with High Net Worth individuals and VCs/Private Equity houses.

He brings in-depth experience in managing and implementing large-scale technology and process change programs in Germany, USA and Japan.

Alain is an expert practitioner in the sourcing and closing of investment opportunities as well as post-acquisition portfolio management.

He has over 19 years of significant hands-on experience in mergers & acquisitions, turnarounds and successful development of new business ventures.

During the last 8 years Alain has gained extensive experience in private equity style investments and divestments from both a corporate and private equity perspective, having participated or led in the execution of 5 M&A transactions (up to 200m euros) and 2 divestments/carve-outs/part closures (up to 120m euros and 1,500 employees). In one case well over 300 euros million in additional annual revenue was added within 3 years.

Through different ventures, Alain has worked in both B2B and consumer services sectors, building businesses from scratch four times and having on 4 occasions up to 40m euros direct P&L responsibility growing businesses focusing on value creation and extraction.

This investment & transaction experience has been combined with operational, strategic management consultancy and strategic corporate oversight of portfolio companies. Alain has led or taken part in 6 turnaround projects (ranging up to 400m euros in revenue) and 7 business growth projects to push profitability and cash strength.