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,...

Michael Fabich

Michael Fabich

Michael is a Managing Partner and 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...

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...

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...

Hans Bayer

Hans Bayer

Hans is a Partner of Capitalmind, 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...

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...

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,...

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...

Matthias Holtmeyer

Matthias Holtmeyer

Matthias is a 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 companies...

Uwe Kroeger

Uwe Kroeger

Uwe is a Partner of Capitalmind, focused on transaction execution and divestitures (carve-outs). He 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...

Arne Laarveld

Arne Laarveld

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+...

Ferdinand Robert Schulhauser

Ferdinand Robert Schulhauser

Robert is Partner of Capitalmind, 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...

Jürgen Schwarz

Jürgen Schwarz

Jürgen is a Partner of Capitalmind and leads the Retail & Consumer Business (CB) practice in Germany. He has been working in international M&A advisory in the Consumer Business sector for 19+ years. Before joining Capitalmind, Jürgen was a...

Jonathan Bursztyn

Jonathan Bursztyn

Jonathan is a Director of Capitalmind. He joined our French office in 2013 and has a solid experience in M&A with a focus on the Business Services and Industrial sectors. Before joining Capitalmind, Jonathan gained experience in corporate finance...

Erik Dahl

Director / Nordics

Erik Dahl

Director / Nordics

Erik is a Director of Capitalmind. Based in Malmö, he held position as Vice President of Corporate Equity at Seavus Group, an international IT consulting and software development company, where he was working with corporate level strategic initiatives and...

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,...

Jean-Pierre Brice

Jean-Pierre Brice

Jean-Pierre started his career in the pulp and paper industry, where he gained a 30 year experience in financial functions: acting as head of financial, strategy and M&A departments within large industrial groups and financial investment holdings in Paris...

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...

Dominique-Paul Vallee

Dominique-Paul Vallee

Senior Associate / France

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 as Non-Executive Partner 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...

Benjamin Pasquet

Manager / France

Benjamin Pasquet

Manager / France

Benjamin is a Manager at Capitalmind. He joined our Parisian team in 2014. Benjamin has been involved in transactions within several sectors including Business services, Healthcare and Consumer. He mainly operates on M&A, LBOs and carve-out transactions. Prior to...

Christopher Martin

Christopher Martin

Senior Associate / France

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...

Pim Mulder

Senior Associate / Benelux

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

Associate / Benelux

Esteban Barnhardt

Associate / Benelux

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Marcel Deutschmann

Marcel Deutschmann

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...

Emma Dispard

Emma Dispard

Emma is an Analyst at the Capitalmind Paris office. Before joining the team in 2019, she gained experience at the Family Office Aquasourca, and also in corporate finance at the French bank Société Générale and at the international M&A...

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...

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...

Jules van den Munckhof

Jules van den Munckhof

Jules is Analyst 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...

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

Roy is Analyst at Capitalmind and joined the company in 2018. Roy has advised on several (cross border) deals, naturally in multiple sectors including – but not limited to – TMT, Business Services and Consumer. His main responsibilities include...

Simon Vergeot

Simon Vergeot