Once again, the demand and desire for businesses dealing with payment services is proved popular for private equity firms as Small World Financial Services was bought by Equistone, a buyout house, for a reported £80m. FPE Capital and MMC Ventures, private equity houses, both sold their stake to Equistone and the deal generated three times the
Charity of the year: Praesumo commit to supporting homeless and vulnerable adults in Leeds
Praesumo is delighted to name St George’s Crypt as their charity of the year for 2018. St George’s Crypt is a Leeds-based charity that works with homeless and vulnerable adults providing immediate care and support, food and accommodation. In doing this, they run a recovery programme, engagement activities and skills training in order to ensure
Happy New Year from Praesumo!
The Praesumo team would like to wish all of our clients and candidates a very Happy New Year! The ringing in of a New Year tends to see our minds reflect, dream and ruminate about the possibilities and opportunities that may be presented to us over the coming 12 months. So …how do we make
Congratulations to Jonathan Hart on his new role as Chairman for 200 Degrees Coffee!
Congratulations to Praesumo candidate Jonathan Hart on his recent appointment as Non-Executive Chairman for 200 Degrees Coffee. Jonathan is well experienced in this sector as former MD of Caffé Nero and CEO of Thorntons. 200 Degree’s coffee are a Nottingham-based speciality coffee roaster with six coffee shops across the UK and a thriving wholesale business.
Congratulations BlueGem Capital Partners on purchase of QMS Medicosmetics!
Congratulations to our client BlueGem on acquiring leading German luxury skincare brand QMS Medicosmetics! Praesumo are pleased to be retained by BlueGem and very happy to be supporting them in recruiting a new management team for QMS. http://www.bluegemcp.com/news/bluegem-ii-lp-acquires-qms-medicosmetics-a-leading-german-premium-skincare-brand-with-scientifically-advanced-products-formulated-by-dr-med-erich-schulte
Congratulations to FPE Capital on closing of first institutional fund!
Congratulations to our client FPE Capital on their first institutional fund reaching a close, with their target of £100 million of funds raised! FPE invest into profitable UK headquartered companies with revenues of £5m to £50m and which have ability to accelerate growth. Praesumo have been pleased to support FPE and place Chairmen for two recent
Volker Beckers in Non-Executive Chair role for Foresight Metering!
Praesumo are pleased to announce the appointment of Volker Beckers as Non-Executive Chairman for Foresight Metering Alongside his new role with Foresight, Volker is currently Non-Executive Director of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and of Elexon. He sits on the Advisory Board of the EU Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King’s College, and
Praesumo welcomes Sean Rowlands as Associate Director!
We are pleased to announce that Sean Rowlands has joined Praesumo as Associate Director. Sean has worked as an executive head-hunter for the past nine years. During which time, he has successfully concluded many executive search campaigns on a pan European basis. With extensive experience of developing executive resourcing strategies for a number of leading
Billy Green in new Head of Finance role at LASULA!
The Praesumo team would like to congratulate our candidate Billy Green on his new role as Head of Finance for online fashion retailer LASULA. Billy previously held the role of Finance Manager at Pretty Little Thing. LASULA are an online boutique driven by a fresh approach to the female fashion market. A leading online eCommerce
Praesumo announce Roger Flynn in new Chairman Role!
Praesumo are pleased to have supported our client FPE Capital in their move to acquire and merge digital media workflow and storage automation providers Masstech and SGL to form a new group with revenues of £10m. The merged group will be headquartered in the UK and supply more than 500 clients with automated storage and movement