The Team

Swiss Private Equity Partners’ expertise covers minority and majority direct investments with more than 4,000 companies screened, more than CHF 400 million invested in approximately 60 companies followed by a clearly defined value creation strategy, creating thus far on average a realised >3x multiple on invested capital (MoIC) with the companies passed to the next generation of owners.

Eric Gisiger, CFA

Eric is Managing Partner, and has 25 years of Private Equity experience, spending the last 14 years thereof building direct PE franchises in the DACH area.

Prior to his current role, he was Managing Partner at Ekkio Capital (EUR 450m AuM), and Helvetica Capital (CHF 400m AuM), both PE advisors with a long-term, value creation investment strategy focused on small/mid-market growth and buy-out investments, taking active leadership roles through board seats.

Before that, he was Investment Director at Credit Suisse Entrepreneur Capital, held leadership positions at Man Group, responsible for building the PE practice, and part of the M&A mid-market team at PwC and the Audit practice at KPMG.

Eric graduated from the University of St. Gallen, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Senior Advisors

The expanded team consists of Senior Advisors including Jonas Bumbacher and Gianni Peduzzi.

Gianni Peduzzi

Gianni Peduzzi has more than 25 years of experience in Corporate Finance/Controlling, Direct Real Estate, Private Equity/Venture Capital.

Jonas Bumbacher

Jonas Bumbacher has more than 15 years of experience in Private Equity, Infrastructure and M&A.