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Stephen Peel
Personal information
Birth nameStephen Mark Peel
NationalityBritish
Born (1965-12-29) 29 December 1965 (age 58)
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
EducationKing's School, Chester
Alma materDowning College, Cambridge
OccupationPrivate equity investor
Spouse
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(m. 1999)​
Medal record
Rowing
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1986 Edinburgh eight

Stephen Mark Peel (born 29 December 1965) is a British businessman, private equity investor, and Olympic athlete who, until 2014, was a senior partner at the global private equity firm TPG Capital.[1] In 2017, Peel founded a new private equity firm, London-based Novalpina Capital, which focuses on control-orientated equity investments in European middle market businesses.[2] He is the founder of SMP Policy Innovation Ltd, a not-for-profit policy organisation aiming to promote, design and assist government policy.

Early life

Peel was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, on 29 December 1965.[3][4] He was educated at King's School, Chester.[5][6] He has a degree in land economy from Downing College, Cambridge in 1987, and is now a Wilkins Fellow.[7][8] In 2015, he completed a Master of Applied Statistics degree at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at Yale University.[9]

Rowing career

Peel represented Great Britain in coxless fours rowing at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.[3] He represented England and won a silver medal in the eight, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[10][11]

Career

Peel worked at Goldman Sachs from 1989, founded TPG's European operations in 1997, ran their Russian and Eastern European operations from 2006 and co-headed the Asia operations from 2009 to 2013.[12] In 2014, Peel left TPG Capital.[1]

From 2016 to 2017, Peel served as a visiting fellow of practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.[13] He is on the advisory council of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.[14]

In 2016, Peel established Novalpina Capital, which is currently most notable for its majority stake in Israeli surveillance technology firm NSO Group, acquired in February 2019.[15] NSO has come under scrutiny, and has been the target of lawsuits, for developing remote-exploit software that can take over targeted mobile phones for covert surveillance and tracking purposes.[16][17] Peel has communicated regularly with Amnesty International and other human-rights organisations to respond to their concerns about the use of NSO's software, saying that "every business in which we invest – including NSO – can and should be operated in accordance with all aspects of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,"[18] and that "highly targeted interception technologies play a critical role in protecting the public."[19]

Personal life

He is married to Yana Peel, businesswoman, philanthropist and arts patron, most recently CEO of London's Serpentine Galleries, and they have two children.[20][21][22] They married in 1999, and live in Bayswater, London.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b "Top TPG Dealmaker Stephen Peel to Leave Firm". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ "Novalpina Capital | An independent private equity firm based in London". Novalpina Capital. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Stephen Peel Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Stephen Mark PEEL – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Companies House, Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Notable Alumni – The King's School Chester". kingschester.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  6. ^ Chronicle, Chester (2 January 2014). "Proof of the pudding is in the rowing". chesterchronicle.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  7. ^ rp441 (7 November 2016). "Stephen Peel". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ rp441 (7 November 2016). "Stephen Peel admitted as a Wilkins Fellow".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Yale – Graduate Students".
  10. ^ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
  11. ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  12. ^ "TPG’s Dattels Named Co-Head of Asia as Stephen Peel Steps Down". Bloomberg Business.
  13. ^ "Former TPG executive Peel preps debut fund at 1 bln euros". PE Hub. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  14. ^ Pangburn, D. J. (9 March 2019). "Israeli cyberattack firm woos investors amid a human rights firestorm". Fast Company. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  15. ^ "Novalpina Capital and founders buy NSO at $1b co value". Globes. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  16. ^ Sabbagh, Dan (18 May 2019). "Israeli firm linked to WhatsApp spyware attack faces lawsuit". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  17. ^ "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 19 July 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  18. ^ Peel, Stephen (1 March 2019). "Response to Open Letter to Novalpina Capital on 18 February 2019" (PDF). Letter to Amnesty International et. al. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  19. ^ Peel, Stephen (15 May 2019). "Response to Open Letter to Novalpina Capital on 15 April 2019" (PDF). Letter to Amnesty International et. al. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  20. ^ "A conversation with Yana Peel". Ocula.com. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  21. ^ Clark, Simon (20 June 2014). "Top TPG Dealmaker Stephen Peel to Leave Firm". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  22. ^ Swaine, Jon; Kirchgaessner, Stephanie; Greenfield, Patrick (18 June 2019). "Serpentine Galleries chief resigns in spyware firm row". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  23. ^ "Yana Peel: 'Like Zaha Hadid, I believe in experimentation'". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
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