Our Team

Jan Willem Jonkman

Jan Willem is a Managing Partner and Board Director of Capitalmind, which he co-founded in 1999. He has 25+ years experience in M&A, and has successfully closed 100+ deals (mainly cross-border), focusing on Consumer/Food, Business Services and TMT. Jan...

Ervin Schellenberg

Ervin Schellenberg

Ervin is Managing Partner, Board Director and co-founder of Capitalmind. He focuses on the Industrial technology & technical business services sector. For more than 27 years Ervin has acted as a trusted advisor to the boards and owners of...

Ron Belt

Ron Belt

Ron is a Managing Partner of Capitalmind, which he joined in 2002, to grow the TMT/Ecommerce and Business Services advisory business. He has 25+ years experience in M&A, and has successfully closed 100+ deals. Ron is fluent in Dutch,...

Matthias Holtmeyer

Matthias Holtmeyer

Matthias is a Managing Partner of Capitalmind, focused on the Healthcare and TMT sectors. He has been an M&A advisor for 20+ years, and leads our Berlin office, with direct access to some of the most dynamic and fastest-growing...

Bart Jonkman

Bart Jonkman

Managing Partner / Nordics

Bart is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Capitalmind, and has almost 30 years dealmaking experience . He has successfully closed 100+ deals as (co-)lead dealmaker for all types of clients. Bart has a deep understanding of international deal...

Stig Madsen Lachenmeier

Stig Madsen Lachenmeier

Managing Partner / Nordics

Stig is a Managing Partner of Capitalmind, which he joined in 2015, as the Nordics lead. During his career he has been involved in 100+ Danish and international transactions, advising clients across most sectors. A core expertise is international...

Michael Fabich

Chairman / Germany

Michael Fabich

Chairman / Germany

Michael is a co-founder of Capitalmind, with 30+ years of experience in investment banking. He focuses on the Healthcare, Business Services, and Consumer sectors. Michael is a highly experienced M&A advisor, having successfully completed 100+ M&A and financing transactions...

Nicolas Balon

Nicolas Balon

Nicolas is a Partner of Capitalmind. He’s been actively involved in the development of the Paris office, which he joined in the early days in 2003. He teams up with large corporates, entrepreneurs, families and private equity houses on...

Erik Dahl

Partner / Nordics

Erik Dahl

Partner / Nordics

Erik is a Partner of Capitalmind. He has great experience in Mergers & Acquisitions, divestments and private placement of cross-border transactions within the Technology, Media, Software and IT & Engineering Consultancy sectors in the Nordic countries. Before joigning our...

Jean-Arthur Dattée

Jean-Arthur Dattée

Jean-Arthur is a Partner of Capitalmind. He’s been actively involved in the development of the Paris office, which he joined in the early days in 2001. He teams up with business owners, corporations & financial investors on supporting them...

Alexandre Ebin

Alexandre Ebin

Alexandre is a Partner of Capitalmind, which he joined in 2014. Alexandre leads our Consumer & Retail sector in Paris, leveraging a 20+ years experience in M&A, private equity and financial auditing. Alexandre started his career as an auditor...

Thorsten Gladiator

Thorsten Gladiator

Thorsten is a Partner of Capitalmind, focused on debt advisory for both private equity-driven situations and in various corporate financings. He has 22+ years experience in the European LBO markets and has arranged 100+ debt financings, ranging from EUR...

Kilian de Gourcuff

Kilian de Gourcuff

Kilian is a Partner of Capitalmind. Kilian re-joined our Paris office in 2015, after three years as CFO of Yellow Korner – a leading art photography editor and distributor in France. Before that, he spent four years at Capitalmind,...

Jürgen Schwarz

Jürgen Schwarz

Associated Partner / Germany

Jürgen is a Partner of Capitalmind and leads the Retail & Consumer Business, Logistics as well as the Restructuring practice in Germany. He has been working in international M&A advisory in the Consumer Business sector for 19+ years. Before...

Arne Laarveld

Arne Laarveld

Associated Partner / Germany

Arne Laarveld is a Partner at Capitalmind: he leads our FinTech team, and is also a senior member of the Industrial Technology team, especially focusing on the machine vision sector. Arne has worked in corporate finance advisory for 20+...

Uwe Kroeger

Director Finance & Operations / Germany

Uwe Kroeger

Director Finance & Operations / Germany

Uwe has worked in investment banking (M&A) for more than 25 years and closed several landmark transactions. Before joining Capitalmind in 2009, Uwe held a leading position in Corporate Development/M&A at Thomas Cook, where he conducted a major divestment...

Thibault Laroche-Joubert

Thibault Laroche-Joubert

Thibault is a Director of Capitalmind. He joined our Parisian team in 2010 and has great experience in finance, M&A and private equity. He’s been involved in many transactions with a focus on Business Services & Food & Agro...

Guillaume ten Have

Guillaume ten Have

Guillaume is a Director of Capitalmind. He joined our Paris office in 2013. Guillaume has been involved in several transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, and fundraising projects. He mainly operates in the Industrial, Business Services and Food & Agro sectors...

Marleen Vermeer

Director / Benelux

Marleen Vermeer

Director / Benelux

Marleen is a Director of Capitalmind and joined the company in 2009. The last 10+ years Marleen successfully closed over 50 (crossborder) deals, naturally in several sectors including business services, TMT and industrials. Her main responsibilities include advising on...

Patrick Atzel

Patrick Atzel

Patrick worked 35 years as financial auditor and chartered accountant, being partner at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. As such, Patrick acted as legal auditor of many listed French middle market groups (eg CNIM, Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Outremer-Telecom,...

Hans Bayer

Hans Bayer

Hans is focused mainly on deal origination in Germany’s Mittelstand, and structuring of transactions. He has 15+ years of Mergers & Acquisition experience and has advised on a large number of middle-market transactions in the following areas: company sales,...

Dr. Stefan Keh

Dr. Stefan Keh

Stefan joined Capitalmind as a senior advisor in November 2017. Now with Capitalmind, Stefan is focusing on the company´s German Industrials and TMT practice. Before joining Capitalmind, Stefan served as Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales Travel, Transport, Logistics at...

Johan Pardoel

Senior Advisor / Benelux

Johan Pardoel

Senior Advisor / Benelux

Johan joined Capitalmind as Senior Advisor in May 2017. Recently Johan was inter alia CEO of Action Holding, member of the Board of the Euronext-listed Sligro Food Group and Managing Director of Lekkerland Germany. Most of his 25+ years...

Ferdinand Robert Schulhauser

Ferdinand Robert Schulhauser

Robert is responsible for Industrials and especially the Automotive Suppliers sub-sector. Before joining Capitalmind in 2014, he worked for almost two decades within the automotive industry, as well as in management consulting, including longstanding operational and strategic experience at...

Vagn Thorup

Senior Advisor / Nordics

Vagn Thorup

Senior Advisor / Nordics

Vagn has over 40 years of work experience first as a technology lawyer, then in the last 20 years as an M&A practitioner, being a partner at i.e. leading Danish law firm, Kromann Reumert for 36 years. Vagn has...

Dominique-Paul Vallee

Dominique-Paul Vallee

Dominique-Paul joined Capitalmind French office as a senior advisor in 2015, reinforcing Capitalmind’s packaging practice by bringing a 30-year experience within this space. During his career, Dominique-Paul held several senior management positions in the packaging industry, serving as Marketing...

Bernard Zonneveld

Senior advisor / Benelux

Bernard Zonneveld

Senior advisor / Benelux

Bernard joined Capitalmind in February 2017. Bernard has 30 years experience in International Banking, mainly in Commodity and Structured Finance. Within Capitalmind, his main focus is soft and hard commodities i.e. food, industrials and trade related sectors. Naturally, advising...

Florian Ismer

Florian Ismer

Florian joined Capitalmind in October 2014. Before he gained experience in the fields of corporate finance, M&A and risk management with mid-tier consulting firms as well as with KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. Florian graduated in Business Administration (B.A.) majoring in...

Christopher Martin

Christopher Martin

Christopher is a Senior Associate at Capitalmind. He joined our Paris office in 2015 and has since then been involved in various M&A and LBO & transactions. Prior to joining Capitalmind, Christopher had gained experience in M&A, Corporate Finance...

Christian Maurer

Christian Maurer

Christian joined Capitalmind in May 2014. Before he gained experience within the M&A Execution Team at IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG in Frankfurt, Germany as well as in the area of Financing at Deutsche Bank Privat- und Geschäftskunden AG. He...

Karim Mekouar

Karim Mekouar

Senior Associate / Benelux

Karim joined Capitalmind French office in 2018 as an Associate after 4 years of experience in transaction services at EY Paris. Prior to joining Capitalmind, he participated in over 20 financial due diligences for large cap in Energy and...

Pim Mulder

Pim Mulder

Senior Associate / Benelux

Pim is Senior Associate at Capitalmind and joined the company in 2014. Over the last years, Pim was involved in 15+ (crossborder) deals naturally within several sectors, including business services, TMT and industrials and Consumer. His main responsibilities include...

Augustin Alle

Augustin Alle

Augustin is an Associate at Capitalmind in Paris, where he has worked on several M&A and LBO transactions across different sectors. Prior to joining our teams in 2017 he had gained experience in Corporate Finance (BPCE Group and JCDecaux)...

Esteban Barnhardt

Esteban Barnhardt

Esteban is Associate at Capitalmind and joined the company in 2015. Over the last years Esteban advised on several (crossborder) deals, naturally in multiple sectors including – but not limited to – Business Services, Industrials and TMT. His main...

Jean-Paul Bruna

Jean-Paul Bruna

Jean-Paul is an Associate at Capitalmind in Paris, where he has worked on several M&A and Financing transactions across different sectors. Prior to joining our teams he had worked for two French banks. Jean-Paul graduated in Finance and Economics...

Valentin Desdoits

Valentin Desdoits

Valentin joined Capitalmind French office in 2019 as an Associate after 4 years of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions at Mazars, where he was involved in various M&A, LBO and financing transactions. Prior to that, he started his career...

Marcel Deutschmann

Associate / Germany

Marcel Deutschmann

Associate / Germany

Marcel joined Capitalmind’s German office in 2016 together with Matthias Holtmeyer. Prior joining Capitalmind, he has gained two years of experience in M&A and has participated in small and mid-market transactions in the healthcare, IT and industrial sectors. Marcel...

Florian Galizia

Florian Galizia

Florian is an Associate at Capitalmind. He joined our Paris team in 2016 and has been involved on several deals, in multiple sectors. Prior to joining us, Florian worked in the Equity Capital Market department of Natixis. He graduated...

Jules van den Munckhof

Jules van den Munckhof

Jules is Associate at Capitalmind and joined the company in 2016. Since then, Jules advised on several (crossborder) deals, naturally in multiple sectors including – but not limited to – TMT, Business Services and Consumer. His main responsibilities include...

Julie Prudent

Julie Prudent

Julie is an Associate at Capitalmind. She joined our Paris office in November 2016. Before joining us, Julie worked in Corporate Finance for Crédit du Nord, and in the M&A department of Santander CIB. Julie graduated from ESCE and...

Emil Aliev

Emil Aliev

Emil joined Capitalmind’s German office in 2018. Prior joining Capitalmind, he has gained three years of operational and business development experience in the industrial & insurance sector. Emil graduated from the European University of Applied Sciences and Universidad de...

Yanis Hamadou

Yanis Hamadou

Yanis started as an analyst in our Paris office in 2017. Before joining Capitalmind, Yanis had gained experience in corporate finance, working for Natixis and a French M&A boutique. Yanis holds a Magistère Banque Finance degree as well as...

Roman Hmilanský

Roman Hmilanský

Roman is Analyst at Capitalmind and joined the company in 2018. Roman advised on several (cross border) deals, naturally in multiple sectors. His main responsibilities include advising on sell-side transactions, funding, MBOs and company acquisitions. Roman is fluent in...

Kasper Juellund

Analyst / Nordics

Kasper Juellund

Analyst / Nordics

Kasper joined Capitalmind’s Copenhagen office as Analyst in February 2018. He is involved in several sell-side and buy-side transactions across different sectors, including Healthcare and TMT. Prior to joining Capitalmind, Kasper worked as Portfolio Analyst in an asset management...

Nicolas Mogarra

Nicolas Mogarra

Nicolas is an Analyst at Capitalmind. Prior to joining our teams in 2019, Nicolas had gained experience in M&A and Private Equity (at HSBC, Alantra and Ardian). He graduated from EDHEC Business School, and speaks French & English.

Corentin Muraro

Corentin Muraro

Corentin started as an analyst in our Paris office in 2019. Before joining Capitalmind, he had gained experience in finance and accounting at Mazars. Corentin holds a Master degree from L’Ecole des Mines St Etienne, and specialized in Finance...

Maurits Odekerken

Maurits Odekerken

Maurits is Analyst at Capitalmind and joined the company in 2019. Maurits is involved in several (cross border) deals, naturally in multiple sectors. His main responsibilities include advising on sell-side transactions, funding, MBOs and company acquisitions. Besides Dutch, Maurits...

Jean-Baptiste Pasquier

Jean-Baptiste Pasquier

Jean-Baptiste is an Analyst at Capitalmind. He joined our Paris office in 2018. Before joining us, Jean-Baptiste worked in Mergers & Acquisitions at PwC Corporate Finance in Paris where he advised French companies on buy-side and sell-side transactions across...

Marc Schmerbeck

Marc Schmerbeck

Marc joined Capitalmind in April 2016. Before he gained experience in the fields of accounting, corporate finance, M&A and strategy consulting at, inter alia, Warth & Klein Grant Thornton and GRAF LAMBSDORFF & COMPAGNIE. Marc graduated in economics (Dipl-...

Roy Steinvoort

Roy Steinvoort