PEF, Impetus Trust announce new board ahead of merger

With the completion of the charities' merger just weeks away, the firms have announced a new proposal for its joint board of trustees.

Impetus – The Private Equity Foundation, as the newly combined outfit will be called upon the completion of its merger early next month, has announced a new board. Daniela Barone Soares is CEO Designate of Impetus – PEF, while the board will be comprised of 14 trustees, seven from each of Impetus and PEF, as follows:

– Johannes Huth, KKR chairman and head of Europe, and chairman and co-founder of PEF;
– Louis Elson, deputy chairman, co-founder and managing partner of Palamon Capital Partners, chairman of Impetus and founder trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation;
– Marc Boughton, CVC Credit Partners chief executive and CVC Capital Partners Group board director;
– Stephen Dawson OBE, one of the first venture capitalists in the UK, co-founder and chairman of Jacana Venture Partnership and a co-founder of Impetus;
– Craig Dearden-Phillips MBE, a serial social entrepreneur, founding CEO of Stepping Out Ltd and chairman of the Stepping Out Foundation;
– Charlie Green, director of 24Haymarket and co-founder of PEF;
– Andy Hinton, co-founder of Ailsa3 Ventures Ltd;
– Carl Parker, partner at Permira and co-founder of PEF;
– Karl Peterson, managing partner of TPG Capital and head of the firm's European office;
– Andrew Sillitoe, partner at Apax Partners;
– Nat Sloane, chair of Big England Committee, co-founder and vice chairman of Impetus, and founder trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation
– Ramez Sousou, founder and co-CEO of TowerBrook Capital Partners, and co-founder and former chairman of PEF
– Nikos Stathopoulos, managing partner of BC Partners
– Chris Underhill MBE, founding director of the charity BasicNeeds, and founder and former director of Thrive and Action on Disability and Development.

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