Management

Dr. Markus studied business administration in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and in Copenhagen, and was awarded a Ph.D. also from St. Gallen and from Harvard University, Boston, United States.

Dr. Markus has been involved with the restructuring and further development of companies for more than 15 years, starting as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and then with an exchange-listed industrial holding company.

During this time, he was responsible for more than 40 corporate transactions, including the acquisition and restructuring of Tesion Telekom, the baby carriage manufacturer Teutonia, the TV station RTL Shop, the SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Group and the Blaupunkt Group.

After studying physics in Leipzig and Lausanne, Mr. Purkert worked for McKinsey & Company, where he gathered experience in process improvements, cost reduction programs and strategic restructuring programs.

After that, he co-founded equinet AG in Frankfurt, an investment bank with about 120 employees today, advising mainly small to medium-sized enterprises. As a member of the Executive Board of the Group's portfolio company, he was responsible for conducting numerous M&A transactions and for managing the portfolio companies.

Ulrich Radlmayr studied law in Hamburg, Aix-en-Provence (France) and Munich.

After serving his required legal internship with the Free State of Bavaria, he worked for five years as a lawyer with P+P Pöllath + Partners, specializing in private equity and M&A. In that role, he advised on numerous, large-volume buy-out transactions, private equity investments and investments in "special situations" on behalf of prestigious institutional investors.

In 2006, he co-founded the law firm AFR Aigner Fischer Radlmayr, Munich, which provides mainly legal and tax-related advice on corporate transactions such as the acquisition, sale, restructuring and financing of companies.

 After studying economics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Mr. Albrecht worked in the Corporate Development Department of Deutsche Bahn AG, where he gathered experience in process improvements, cost reduction programs and strategic restructuring programs.

After that, he moved to finance at Pricap Venture Partners AG (Thomas Matzen Group), a venture capital and private equity firm. He worked there for six years as an investment manager vested with power of commercial representation under German law (Prokura); during this time, he managed more than 20 transactions, from the initial investment to the IPO stage.