🎥 Bridgepoint's Xavier Robert - building a "middle market global champion"

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Xavier Robert discussing the middle market investing landscape and Bridgepoint's growth and strategies.

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode unpacks the nuances of the middle market investing landscape with an industry expert who spearheads one of the leading middle market investment platforms. We sat down in Bridgepoint ’s London office with Partner and Chief Investment Officer Xavier Robert . Xavier is a Partner of Bridgepoint and Chief Investment Officer, where he’s been a member of the firm for almost 28 years. He is a member of the Firm’s Group Management Committee and Investment Advisory Committee. He currently sits on the boards of MiQ, Kyriba, and Qualitest. He was previously a Board Member and Chair of the Remuneration Committee at eFront, which the firm sold to BlackRock. Prior to joining Bridgepoint, he worked at Total and Ernst & Young. Xavier and I had a fascinating and nuanced discussion about why the middle market is a compelling segment in the market and how Bridgepoint has expanded across asset classes. We discussed: How Bridgepoint’s origins as part of NatWest Banking Group helped to shape the firm’s early days as an independent investment platform. The “entrepreneurial story” of Bridgepoint. The story of Bridgepoint’s IPO and how…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Sidgmore

Guest: Xavier Robert

Topics covered

• middle market investing
• investment platforms
• Bridgepoint
• European markets
• entrepreneurial stories
• asset class expansion

Keywords

• middle market
• investment
• Bridgepoint
• Europe
• IPO
• credit
• infrastructure
• secondaries

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bridgepoint, NatWest Banking Group, BlackRock, Total, Ernst & Young, MiQ, Kyriba, Qualitest

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