QPE appoints James Phillips to its Investing team

Queen’s Park Equity (“QPE”) is delighted to announce the appointment of James Phillips to its investing team.

James joins from Phoenix Equity Partners having previously spent eight years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) where he worked in their Corporate Finance and Transaction Services teams in both London and Sydney.

Commenting on the appointment, Jonny Kay, Managing Partner, said: “We’re delighted to welcome James to our investing team, as we continue to deploy our debut fund into new partnerships as well as focusing on value creation and supporting our existing partner firms on their own accelerated growth journeys. James’s appointment further demonstrates our commitment to building a team not only with strong technical ability and sector experience, but also the EQ required to build long-term relationships with all of our stakeholders”.

QPE is investing its over-subscribed debut fund of £202m and focuses on providing capital and expertise to high-quality, entrepreneur-led businesses within the Education, Health & Pharma and Tech Services sectors, which have an ambition to accelerate their growth.

To date, QPE has made eight partnership investments which have, collectively, made a further 12 follow-on acquisitions.