Afinum hires Abdel-Hadi as investment director
Private equity firm Afinum has hired Carsten Abdel-Hadi as investment director.
Abdel-Hadi joins from Aurelius where he was managing director of its subsidiary, Aurelius Mittelstandskapital, for the last two years. He started at the firm in 2009 as investment director. Earlier in his career, Abdel-Hadi worked stints at Jefferies and KPMG.
Philipp Otto, Christof Schlindwein and Elias Tuerk also joined Afinum during H2 2016, all three as investment managers. Otto joined from Deutsche Private Equity, where he has worked since 2014. Schlindwein worked at Boston Consulting Group prior to a short stint at Chicago-based startup G2 Crowd earlier this year. Tuerk previously worked for Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.
Afinum said in a statement it expanded its investment team in order to support new acquisitions and the management of its current portfolio. The GP plans to raise a new fund in 2017. Its previous vehicle Afinum Siebte Beteiligungsgesellschaft closed on €280m in April 2013.
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