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The episode features a discussion with Apax Co-CEOs Andrew Sillitoe and Mitch Truwit about the private equity industry and fundraising at the SuperReturn conference in Berlin.

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. We were live from Berlin, which becomes the “capital of private capital” in June as the private equity’s industry leaders make the annual pilgrimage to the city for one of the marquee private equity conferences, SuperReturn Berlin. Much of the SuperReturn conference is centered on fundraising. GPs take up every available space — from hotel rooms, to Tiny Space cabins lining the parking spots on Budapester Strasse outside of the InterContinental conference venue — to conduct meetings with LPs. With Prosek Partners’ and former Bloomberg TV journalist Deirdre Bolton as my producer and her team, we took over a Tiny Space cabin to hold big conversations with some of the industry’s leading alternative asset managers. Our first conversation was with Apax Co-CEOs Andrew Sillitoe and Mitch Truwit . Apax is one of the pioneers in the private equity industry. The firm’s rich history dates back to the 1970s, when its founders, Alan Patricof (US), Sir Ronald Cohen (UK), and Maurice Tchénio (France), came together to establish the first US-UK partnership firm in private equity. During that time period, the firm backed Steve Jobs and the first…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Sidgmore

Guests: Andrew Sillitoe, Mitch Truwit

Topics covered

• private equity
• fundraising
• alternative asset management
• leadership transition
• middle market

Keywords

• private equity
• fundraising
• SuperReturn
• Apax
• alternative assets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apax, Prosek Partners, Bloomberg TV, Apple

Places: Berlin

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