APPROACH
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LEADERSHIP
JCP’s Senior Leadership Team has signifcant financial experience gathered at top-tier global investment banking and advisory firms, through private equity and venture capital investing, and Tech entrepreneurship
GARRY JENSEN
MANAGING PARTNER
Garry is the Founder and Managing Partner of Jensen Capital Partners. He is well-known and highly-respected within the private markets investment community. Previously, Garry was a Partner for five years at JRJ Group, a London-based private equity investment firm. He held various senior executive positions at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers in New York, London and Moscow, including Head of Lehman Brothers’ International Institutional Equity Business in the U.S. Garry started his career at Morgan Stanley in New York in Mergers & Acquisitions. He received an MBA with honours from University of Chicago.
ANDREAS HAJIALEXANDROU
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Andreas is a Managing Director at Jensen Capital Partners. He is an investment professional with over 30 years of experience. Andreas has held senior positions at major global investment banks and specialist firms in trading, investment management, as well as structuring and origination, including as Partner at ISM Capital, Head of Convertibles at HSBC, and running Convertible Bond Trading for Lehman Brothers – EMEA & Asia. Over the past 10 years, he ran a business focused on assisting SMEs in developing their business strategies to enhance growth, dealing with acquisitions, financing and legal. Andreas holds a degree in Law from Southhampton University.
PEDRO PORFIRIO
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Pedro is a Managing Director at Jensen Capital Partners. He has over 30 years of global capital markets, treasury and technology experience. Previously, Pedro was a Managing Director & Head of Americas at Finastra, one of the largest Fintech companies in the world. Before that, he was the Chief Product Officer at Calypso Technologies. Pedro also held senior executive positions in investment banking at Lehman Brothers, Dresdner Kleinwort, State Street and Jefferies in both New York and London. He started off his career at JP Morgan in Brazil before running a mid-sized family-owned manufacturing business. Pedro received an MBA with honours from University of Michigan.
RAVI SARATHY
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Ravi is a Managing Director at Jensen Capital Partners. He has served as CFO and Chief Strategy Officer at Gridsum Holding, a leading China-based Business Analytics, Big Data and AI company, and as Head of APAC Internet, Software, Media and Telecoms Equity Research at Citi. Ravi was Co-Founder of IRG, an Asia-focused TMT M&A and investment boutique. From 1996-2000, he was Head of Global Internet Research & Head of Asia Internet, Software, Media and Telecoms Equity Research at Lehman Brothers, where he was ranked #1 in a number of surveys, incl. Institutional Investor. Ravi holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, both in economics, from Peterhouse, Cambridge University.
JEAN PIERRE CASEY
SENIOR ADVISOR
Jean Pierre is the CEO of RegHedge, a pioneering firm at the intersection of Fintech, Regtech and Legaltech, which uses AI to derive meaningful insights from policy catalysts. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of the Holy See -established by the Vatican- which oversees all its financial investments. Previously, Jean Pierre held senior executive roles at JP Morgan and Edmond de Rothschild in London as Head of Investments for Emerging Markets, and Europe, respectively, managing multi-billion dollar portfolios. He is a Professor of Financial Regulation at the College of Europe, and has published two books and many articles on financial regulation.
STEVE WEISS
SENIOR ADVISOR
Steve is the Managing Partner at Short Hills Capital Partners, an alternative asset manager. He has held senior positions at various prestigious global investment banks and asset managers, investing the assets of legendary investors David Tepper and Leon Cooperman, as well as being the CIO of SAC Capital, Steve Cohen’s hedge fund. He has written two top selling investment books and a financial novel. “The Billion Dollar Mistake” was the basis for a course on Capital Markets he taught at Kenan-Flagler, Graduate Business School at University of NC. Steve is one of the original members of CNBC’s The Halftime Report, the most watched business show globally.
IN MEMORIAM
JOHN PHIZACKERLEY
SENIOR ADVISOR
John was a trusted and valued Senior Advisor to JCP, as well as a dear and close friend. Throughout his career, he was a talented, nurturing, and caring manager across all professional roles, and he positively affected the lives of many under his purview. John was one of a kind and the world is a sadder place without him.
He was CEO of TP ICAP, an inter-dealer broker and FTSE 250 company, from 2014 to 2018. Previously, John served as CEO of Nomura EMEA. He had extensive advisory experience, and -among others- served on the UK Council of INSEAD, as Non-Executive Director of Marex Group Ltd, as Chairman of the Advisory Board of Barts and the London NHS Trust, and as Director of Lehman Brothers Foundation. John held various senior executive positions at Lehman Brothers and started his career at Anglo American PLC as a mining engineer.
We owe him a great debt of gratitude and he will never be forgotten.