Antony Amalor

Senior Associate
UK / Private Equity
Services & Software

Antony is a Senior Associate in the UK Private Equity team. He was involved in 3i’s investment in Digital Barriers and also supports on 3i’s investment in AESSEAL, a leading mechanical seals manufacturer. 

Prior to joining 3i in February 2022, Antony worked in the EMEA Business Services Group at Morgan Stanley, advising clients on a range of transactions across the Business Services sector. Antony holds a BSc (Hons) Finance from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School).

George Archer

Banking Partner
UK / Private Equity

George joined 3i in 2011 and is a Partner in its Banking Team. He has 28 years of banking experience and has worked on financing transactions for many of 3i’s current and former portfolio companies, including Action, Arrivia, Aspen Pumps, Audley Travel, Basic Fit, BoConcept, Cirtec Medical, Dutch Bakery, Dynatect, Element, Eltel, ESG, Hans Anders, Kinolt, Lekolar, MAIT, Magnitude, Mepal, MKM, OneMed, Q Holding, Royal Sanders, Sanisure, SLR, Wilson HCG and Yanga.

Prior to 3i, George worked at The Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of America and Barclays Capital, specialising in leveraged finance and sponsor coverage. He has also held positions in leveraged loan syndications and in corporate restructuring.

George holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College (University of London), a BSc (Hons) degree in Financial Services from UMIST and a MSc degree in Operational Research from Strathclyde University.

Sam Beach

Senior Associate
North America / Private Equity
Services & Software

Sam joined 3i in 2021 as a member of its North American Private Equity team based in New York.

Prior to joining 3i, Sam worked as an Associate at Windjammer Capital Investors, where he invested in a broad range of advanced manufacturing, specialty distribution, and business service industry sectors.  He was also previously an Analyst at Harris Williams & Co.

Sam received an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

Jake Behrman

Director
North America / Private Equity
Healthcare

Jake joined 3i in 2018 in the New York office and is a member of the Healthcare sector coverage team. Jake has been involved in 3i’s investments in Cirtec Medical, SaniSure, and ten23 Health.

Prior to joining 3i, Jake worked as an Associate at Metalmark Capital, a middle-market private equity that has managed more than $8 billion through its funds. While at Metalmark, he helped execute a number of platform investments and transformative portfolio company acquisitions. Jake was previously an Analyst in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley.

Jake graduated from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business with High Distinction.

Brita Bergland

Senior Associate, ESG
UK / Private Equity

Brita is an ESG Senior Associate in the Private Equity team based in London.

Prior to joining 3i in 2024, Brita spent four years in PwC’s Sustainability practice, across Norway, the UK and the Middle East. She has broad sector experience supporting corporates with setting and implementing sustainability strategies and reporting processes. Brita began her career as an ESG Advisor in the oil and gas sector in Norway.

Brita holds a BA from King’s College London and an MPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford.   

Victor Bessis

Associate
UK / Private Equity

Victor is an Associate in the Private Equity team based in London.

Prior to joining 3i in 2020, Victor gained internship experience in technology M&A at Cambon Partners in Paris and in Venture Capital at Global Founders Capital (Paris and New York).

Victor is involved with 3i's investment in MPM, an international leader in branded, premium, natural pet food.

Victor holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in International Finance from HEC Paris.

Gaurav Bhurat

Director
India / Private Equity

Gaurav joined 3i in 2011 and has been involved in both Infrastructure and Private Equity investments.

Prior to 3i, Gaurav worked at TVS Capital, a mid-market private equity fund, where he invested in banking, retail, healthcare and other consumer-oriented plays. He has also invested in European Private Equity and high yield debt at Goldman Sachs and in US small cap public equities at Boston Avenue Capital LLC, a billion $ hedge fund.

Gaurav holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Casper de Bok

Associate
Benelux / Private Equity

Casper joined 3i in 2021 in the Benelux Private Equity team and is a deal team member of European Bakery Group, Royal Sanders and Basic-Fit.

Prior joining 3i, Casper gained internship experience in sell-side M&A at Lincoln International and mid-market Private Equity at Avedon Capital Partners.

Casper holds a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Delft.

Pierre-Axel Botuha

Partner
France / Private Equity
Consumer & Private Label

Pierre-Axel is a Partner and Co-Head of the French Private Equity team. Prior to joining 3i in 2021, he was a Principal at L Catterton where he focused on consumer investments in Europe. 

Pierre-Axel began his career at La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild, advising on M&A transactions in France, Germany and China. He then worked at BCG, supporting international strategy projects in the industrials, logistics and automotive sectors, and L-GAM, a UK-based, long-term oriented, private equity firm. 

Pierre-Axel holds an MBA from INSEAD (with Distinction), a MSc in Engineering from Supelec Paris, and a Masters in Economics from Paris XI University.

William Bourne

Associate Director
UK / Private Equity

William is an Associate Director in the Banking Team within 3i Private Equity. He has worked on financings for a number of 3i's portfolio companies, including: Action, Cirtec Medical, Evernex, Formel D, Luqom, YDEON and VakantieDiscounter.

Prior to joining 3i in 2022, William spent seven years at Barclays Investment Bank working across a range of teams. He spent most of his time in Leveraged Finance, working on a range of European and cross border transactions for mid-market and large-cap buyouts and financings in all sectors, whilst specialising in TMT, Healthcare and Consumer businesses.

William holds a BSc in Geology from the University of Bristol.

Rémi Carnimolla

Senior Partner, Managing Director
France / Private Equity
Services & Software

Rémi joined 3i in 2003. He is currently the Head of the Paris office and is a member of the 3i Investment Committee. He sits on the Board of Evernex.

In 2019, Rémi led 3i’s investment in Evernex, a leading European provider of third party maintenance services for data centre infrastructure and soon after, in 2020, the transformative acquisition of Technogroup. In 2017, he led 3i’s investment in Havea, a European leader in the natural consumer healthcare industry which he successfully sold in July 2022 after having tripled its results with 5 acquisitions in Europe (Aragan, Densmore, Pasquali, Calmosine and ixX Pharma), an acceleration of organic growth with an enhanced and more focused marketing strategy and a full change and upgrade of the organisation. Rémi also led 3i’s investments in Keolis, Etanco, Vedici and Trescal as well as being involved in Geka, Atesteo, Formel D, Hans Anders, TCR and in 2021 MPM in the “natural pet food” segment. 

Prior to joining 3i, Rémi founded and headed a French venture capital firm in Tunisia and spent three years with McKinsey. 

Rémi has a degree in Accounting and Finance from the Paris Business School (ESCP) and an executive MBA (sponsored by McKinsey). 

Lauren Causon

Senior Legal Counsel
North America / Private Equity

Lauren joined 3i in 2019 and is based in the New York office, with responsibility for supporting the Private Equity team globally on new investments and divestments, portfolio matters and legal risk management.

Prior to 3i, Lauren was an associate in the corporate teams of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and Travers Smith LLP in London, where she advised private equity funds and portfolio companies on international M&A, management incentivisation, restructurings and refinancings. Lauren is qualified as a solicitor of the courts of England & Wales and is registered as a foreign-qualified in-house attorney in New York.

Lauren holds a BSc in Politics from the University of Bristol and completed her post-graduate legal studies at the University of Law, Guildford and BPP University, London.

Sean Clark

Associate
North America / Private Equity

Sean joined 3i in 2022 as a member of its North American Private Equity team based in New York. Sean has since been involved in 3i’s investments in JMJ Associates and Dynatect.

Prior to joining 3i, Sean worked as an Analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking Group at Wells Fargo, where he focused on M&A advisory and capital raising transactions across all sectors.

Sean graduated magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University with a B.S. in Accounting.

James Cox

Portfolio Director, Asset Management Group
UK / Private Equity

James is a Director in 3i's Asset Management Group which manages investments in a range of companies across a variety of sectors and geographies.

He has been with 3i since 1998 having started his career at PiMS UK, a London based media services company, where he headed up the financial services team. James subsequently joined 3i’s London based portfolio management team in 2002 where his focus was managing higher value minority investments.

James has more than 20 years’ experience of managing minority and majority equity positions in Growth Capital and Buyout assets across a wide range of sectors. He has both invested in, and supported, companies at various stages of growth and completed a significant number of successful realisations.

Grace Delluc

Associate Director
UK / Private Equity
Consumer & Private Label

Grace is an Associate Director in the UK Private Equity team and is involved with 3i's portfolio company MPM. 

Prior to joining 3i in 2021, Grace was an investor at Apax Partners, focused on consumer retail, digital media and technology. Prior to Apax, Grace worked at Lazard in the M&A team, after having started her career in transaction services at KPMG. 

Grace holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University, and a Master’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.

Piotr Doniec

Director
Germany / Private Equity
Services & Software

Piotr joined 3i in 2017 and is a Director in the Private Equity team based in Frankfurt. He was a deal team member on 3i’s investments in Luqom Group, the largest European online specialist in the lighting space, and Formel D, a global service provider to the automotive and component supply industry. He currently sits on the board of Formel D.

Prior to joining 3i, Piotr gained work experience as a Consultant with McKinsey and in investment banking at Deutsche Bank. 

Piotr holds a Masters degree in Finance from HEC Paris and a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen.