Inflexion announced a record number of promotions across its 200-person team. The promotions reflect the firm’s continued focus on career development during a period of strong growth.
The announcement follows the successful close of Inflexion Buyout Fund VII at €4.5 billion. The firm has also continued investment activity across all three of its fund strategies.
Inflexion appointed Tom Pemberton as Head of Enterprise while he continues to lead the firm’s Consumer sector. Enterprise is Inflexion’s lower mid-market strategy focused on backing entrepreneurial businesses with high growth potential, typically valued at up to €175 million.
Pemberton joined Inflexion in 2017 as part of the Enterprise team before moving to lead the Consumer sector. He has experience sourcing and evaluating opportunities and leading growth investments across consumer, consumer technology, and services.
Malcolm Coffin, who has led the Enterprise strategy since 2022, will remain with the firm in a senior role. He will also continue representing Inflexion on the board of Aspen Pumps.
Inflexion also appointed Freddy West as its first Chief People Officer. West joined the firm in 2022 and has helped transform its approach to portfolio talent and human capital.
The newly created firm-wide role expands West’s responsibilities to include internal talent management. She will continue overseeing portfolio-related talent responsibilities as part of the expanded position.
Sachin Mitra, James Stevens, and Freddy West have each been promoted to partner. In total, 42 Inflexion professionals have been promoted across investment, value acceleration, and specialist function teams.
In the Investment and Value Acceleration teams, Adam Moss, Nick Rosenberg, Daan Gankema, and Mike Arshinskiy were promoted to managing director. William An, Nick Davies, Toby Lane, Cameron Lenton, Ada Pham, Heng Schiltges, Umberto Massucco, Jack Weller, and Will Menz were promoted to director.
Daan de Bruin, John Ekstedt, Cameron Rule, Martin Voelker, Kate Washington, and Stefano Zocchi were promoted to assistant director. Chessie Broadhurst and Emilie Le Querec were promoted to origination manager.
Across specialist functions, Jack Pearson, Phil Chin, and Ionela Wiseman were promoted to director in Finance, Funds, and Portfolio. Lizzy Grinnell and Matthys Davis were promoted to assistant director, Nancy Kelleher to senior manager, Fahad Raja to fund controller, Sharon Harrison-Merchant to manager, and Stephanie Pipe to corporate accountant.
In Legal, Tax, and Compliance, Hannah Berdal and Jessica Rodriguez were promoted to senior legal counsel, Lucinda White to senior tax counsel, and Alina Rotari to senior compliance manager. In Investor Relations, Georgina Hinckley, James Taylor, and Willemijn Nederlof were promoted to assistant director.
In Marketing and Communications, Teaghan Mills was promoted to assistant director. In Operations, Harry Jones was promoted to manager.
Inflexion has made 41 new appointments over the past 12 months. The firm now has more than 200 employees across six global locations: London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, New York, Singapore, and Stockholm.
Inflexion is a European mid-market private equity firm. The firm’s promotion cycle reflects continued growth across its investment platform, value acceleration capabilities, and specialist operating functions.
KEY QUOTE:
“At its core, private equity is a talent business, and at Inflexion, that conviction is foundational to everything we do: how we hire, how we develop people and how we create the conditions for ambitious individuals to build long-term careers. This year’s record promotions reflect that depth of talent, and I would like to congratulate each team member on a thoroughly well-deserved achievement.”
Flor Kassai, Managing Partner at Inflexion
