Zug (Switz\u00ader\u00adland) \u2014 Part\u00adners Group, a leading global private markets firm, announ\u00adces the appoint\u00adment of Wolf-Henning Schei\u00adder as Part\u00adner and Head of Private Equity. Mr. Schei\u00adder will be based at the company\u2019s head\u00adquar\u00adters in Baar-Zug, Switz\u00ader\u00adland. Mr. Schei\u00adder to replace David Layton, Part\u00adners Group\u2019s Chief Execu\u00adtive Offi\u00adcer (\u201cCEO\u201d), as Head of Private Equity. Mr. Layton had retai\u00adned leader\u00adship of the private equity divi\u00adsion after being named co-CEO in 2018 and sole CEO in 2021.<\/p>\n
Mr. Schei\u00adder is curr\u00adently CEO and Chair\u00adman of the Board of Manage\u00adment of the ZF Group, a global
\nTech\u00adno\u00adlogy company that manu\u00adfac\u00adtures systems for passen\u00adger cars, commer\u00adcial vehic\u00adles and indus\u00adtrial tech\u00adno\u00adlogy and gene\u00adra\u00adtes sales of over 38 billion euros.
\nPreviously, he served as CEO and Chair\u00adman of the Manage\u00adment Board of the MAHLE Group. Mr. Schei\u00adder began his career at Robert Bosch in 1987 and later became a member of the company\u2019s Board of Management.<\/p>\n
At Part\u00adners Group, Mr. Schei\u00adder will focus speci\u00adfi\u00adcally on the firm\u2019s control private equity port\u00adfo\u00adlio, which is focu\u00adsed on four verti\u00adcals: Goods & Products, Health & Life, Services and Tech\u00adno\u00adlogy. This port\u00adfo\u00adlio includes more than 100 compa\u00adnies in 23 count\u00adries and and employs more than 250,000 people as of March 31, 2022.<\/p>\n
David Layton, Part\u00adner and CEO of Part\u00adners Group, says: \u201cWe are deligh\u00adted to welcome Wolf to Part\u00adners Group. While the term \u2018private equity\u2019 conju\u00adres up a Wall Street image for some, our private equity approach today is about buil\u00adding busi\u00adnesses \u2014 it\u2019s about entre\u00adpre\u00adneu\u00adrial leader\u00adship, strategy,
\nopera\u00adtio\u00adnal excel\u00adlence and culture. With more than three deca\u00addes of senior manage\u00adment expe\u00adri\u00adence, Wolf is ideally posi\u00adtio\u00adned to deepen the opera\u00adtio\u00adnal exper\u00adtise that under\u00adlies our trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive invest\u00adment efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wolf-Henning Schei\u00adder, comm\u00adents: \u201cAfter a long career in indus\u00adtry leading compa\u00adnies to success, I am deligh\u00adted to have the oppor\u00adtu\u00adnity to contri\u00adbute my expe\u00adri\u00adence to Part\u00adners Group\u2019s broad port\u00adfo\u00adlio. I look forward to working with the impres\u00adsive private equity team to execute the firm\u2019s stra\u00adtegy of trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive inves\u00adt\u00ading. Part\u00adners Group\u2019s empha\u00adsis on entre\u00adpre\u00adneu\u00adrial owner\u00adship as a driver of invest\u00adment perfor\u00admance means that Part\u00adners Group places a high value on opera\u00adtio\u00adnal experience.<\/p>\n
With its unique opera\u00adting model and strong track record, Part\u00adners Group Part\u00adners Group has attrac\u00adted a number of top opera\u00adtors to its invest\u00adment teams. The firm recently announ\u00adced the appoint\u00adment of Ben Breier<\/strong> as Part\u00adner and Head of the U.S. Private Equity Health & Life indus\u00adtry verti\u00adcal. Prior to joining Part\u00adners Group, Mr. Breier had many years of expe\u00adri\u00adence in the health\u00adcare sector, Stef\u00adfen Meis\u00adter, Execu\u00adtive Chair\u00adman of the Board, Part\u00adners Group, added: \u201cAt Part\u00adners Group, we believe that the public and private markets are swap\u00adping roles and that the private market will be the one respon\u00adsi\u00adble for the growth and sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity of the real economy in the future. As the indus\u00adtry grows into this role, we can learn from successful indus\u00adtrial and tech\u00adno\u00adlogy conglo\u00adme\u00adra\u00adtes that share the seve\u00adral charac\u00adte\u00adristics with today\u2019s private market compa\u00adnies and their diver\u00adsi\u00adfied asset port\u00adfo\u00adlios. The best compa\u00adnies are charac\u00adte\u00adri\u00adzed by stra\u00adte\u00adgic rigor, indus\u00adtrial logic and opera\u00adtio\u00adnal value crea\u00adtion \u2014 all criti\u00adcal tools for buil\u00adding busi\u00adnesses. For this reason, we selec\u00adtively recruit expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced employees from market-leading compa\u00adnies into manage\u00adment posi\u00adti\u00adons within our invest\u00adment busi\u00adness. We welcome Wolf and Ben to Part\u00adners Group and look forward to working with them.\u201d<\/p>\n About Part\u00adners Group Zug (Switz\u00ader\u00adland) \u2014 Part\u00adners Group, a leading global private markets firm, announ\u00adces the appoint\u00adment of Wolf-Henning Schei\u00adder as Part\u00adner and Head of Private Equity. Mr. Schei\u00adder will be based at the company\u2019s head\u00adquar\u00adters in Baar-Zug, Switz\u00ader\u00adland. Mr. Schei\u00adder to replace David Layton, Part\u00adners Group\u2019s Chief Execu\u00adtive Offi\u00adcer (\u201cCEO\u201d), as Head of Private Equity. Mr. Layton [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","news-category-people-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nmost recently as CEO of Kind\u00adred Health\u00adcare, one of the largest provi\u00adders of health\u00adcare services in the United States.<\/p>\n
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\nPart\u00adners Group is a leading global private markets firm. Since 1996, the firm has inves\u00adted over USD 170 billion in private equity, private real estate, private debt and private infra\u00adstruc\u00adture on behalf of its clients around the world. Part\u00adners Group is a commit\u00adted, respon\u00adsi\u00adble inves\u00adtor and stri\u00adves to
\nthrough active parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtion in and deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment of growing compa\u00adnies, attractive
\nReal estate and important infra\u00adstruc\u00adture. With over $127 billion in assets under manage\u00adment as of Decem\u00adber 31, 2021, Part\u00adners Group mana\u00adges a broad range of insti\u00adtu\u00adtio\u00adnal inves\u00adtors, sove\u00adreign wealth funds sove\u00adreign wealth funds, family offices and indi\u00advi\u00addu\u00adals around the world. The company employs more than 1,500
\nprofes\u00adsio\u00adnals in 20 offices world\u00adwide and has regio\u00adnal head\u00adquar\u00adters in Baar-Zug, Switzerland;
\nDenver, USA, and Singa\u00adpore. The company has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exch\u00adange since 2006 (symbol: PGHN). www.partnersgroup.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"