Meet the Team

Mr Singer is an investment and financial services professional with over 30 years’ experience in private equity. Mr Singer spent over 20 years with Advent International where he was a member of the Global Executive Committee and, until 2012, Chair of European Operations. He was Managing Director and founder of Granville Europe plc, one of the first pan-European private equity funds. In addition, he was Chair of the European Venture Capital Association.

Mr Singer is involved with several organisations within the arts and education sectors and is Chair of City of London Sinfonia.

Ms Sieghart is a Non-Executive Director of the Guardian Media Group and was formerly a Non-Executive Director of the The Merchants Trust PLC and until 2022 was the Chair of the Investment Committee of the Scott Trust, overseeing its £1.2bn endowment. In addition, she is a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Ms Sieghart is also a journalist, broadcaster and author of The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It. She was formerly Assistant Editor of The Times, a Lex columnist at the Financial Times and City Editor of Today. She is a Visiting Professor of King’s College London and also spent the academic year 2018–19 as a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Ms Clements is an investment, private equity and finance professional with over 15 years of board experience, and over 25 years of executive experience, notably in a private equity context at leading firms including Palatine Private Equity, Electra Partners, LGV Capital and Royal Bank of Scotland.

She is a current Non-Executive Director of JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust plc and Senior plc, and a Non-Executive Adviser at Travers Smith LLP. She is also a Member of the Social Investment Advisory Committee of the Growth Impact Fund and a Trustee of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. She has previously sat on a range of consumer, retail, leisure, healthcare and professional services boards as a Non-Executive Director. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC.

Mr Burgess has over 20 years’ experience within private equity, following eight years with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris and London, where he became a Partner.

Subsequently, he held senior roles with F&C Ventures Ltd and Candover Investments Plc before co-founding BC Partners (formerly Baring Capital Investors Ltd) in 1986, where he was a Managing Partner until 2005. While at BC Partners, he held directorships of a variety of companies across the UK and Continental Europe.

Since 2005, he has remained actively involved in private equity, as well as increasing his investment interests in the public markets. Mr Burgess is an Independent Member of the Governing Body of the Royal Academy of Music and was a Director of the Business Growth Fund Plc.

Dame Sue Owen is an economist with over 30 years’ experience in government, including 14 years at the Treasury. She led the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2013 to 2019, having also worked in the British Embassy in Washington DC, No. 10, the Department of International Development and as Strategy Director General in the Department for Work and Pensions overseeing a £200bn budget. She has considerable experience of governance, advising ministers on board and chair appointments of 45 arm’s-length bodies. She chaired the Civil Service Charity and was Civil Service Diversity Champion.

Currently, Dame Sue chairs the UK Debt Management Office Advisory Board, is Non-Executive Director at Serco plc, Pool Re, and DAF NV Supervisory Board. She is an ad hoc adviser at Flint Global; in pro-bono roles she chairs the Royal Ballet Governors, is a trustee of Opera Holland Park and NED at Methera Global start-up.

Mr Welde is a marketing and digital professional who spent almost 31 years in senior, international roles at Unilever. He is a current Non-Executive Director of Entain Plc and Parentinc Pte Ltd (Singapore), and is Chair of the Advisory Board of Migrant Leaders, a UK charity. He also serves in an advisory capacity to corporations and technology-led companies including those at the start-up and scale-up stages.

Mr Farazmand is a seasoned investment and private equity professional with over 33 years of executive experience, including senior investment roles at Lloyds TSB Development Capital, Royal Bank Private Equity and 3i PLC, and a subsequent nine years of non-executive board experience. He is currently a Director of Baronsmead Second Venture Trust plc and Ricardo PLC and sits on several investment advisory boards. Mr Farazmand has sat previously on a range of consumer, trade association and B2B businesses boards as Non-Executive Director and was the Chair of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) in 2014-2015.

Mr Morgan is an experienced investment and private equity professional with 29 years of executive experience. He has held senior investment roles at a range of financial institutions, including Chief Investment Officer at British International Investment Plc (formerly CDC Group plc), and private equity firms Onex Corporation and Permira. Mr Morgan was also Managing Director, Private Equity, at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) in Toronto, where he oversaw a large portfolio of private equity investments.

Ms Morley is a seasoned private equity, strategy and operations professional with over 34 years of executive experience. This included senior roles at private equity firms HgCapital and LDC, as well as earlier experience at 3i PLC and in strategy at a FTSE 250 plc. She also has an extensive track record at senior board level, having worked as part of around 20 boards to promote shared strategic direction and focused value creation, and has represented the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) as part of the Wates Corporate Governance Principles framework. Candida is currently the Senior Independent Director of the Scottish National Investment Bank and until November 2024 was a Director of UK Government Investments (UKGI).