Mr Nic Humphries

KANDO id: 11251

Bio

Chief Executive and head of the TMT team. Has 17 years experience of the private equity and venture capital industry, and joined HgCapital in 2001. Was previously with Geocapital Partners where, as general partner, he founded its European business and, prior to that, was head of Barclays Private Equity’s IT and telecoms team. Lead investments have included IRIS Software & CS Group plc (collectively sold for £500m in 2007), Xyratex ($410m flotation on NASDAQ in 2004), Geneva Technology (sold to Convergys Corporation for $693 million in March 2001), NextGenTel (a Norwegian broadband service provider, floated and then sold to Telia Sonera for €300m). Geneva Technology won the European Technology Forum and British Venture Capital Association awards for “Deal of the Year” in 2001/02. Also involved in the flotations of Autologic plc and of Stepstone.com. Director on the boards of Axiom and Visma, and co-led investments in Addison Software, Rolfe&Nolan and SiTel Semiconductor. First Class degree in Electronic Engineering and was an IEEE and National Engineering Council scholar.

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