Over 35 years in strategy consulting, investment and business management and public company boards.
Ex Bain & Company, LEK Partnership and Chase Manhattan Bank.
Chair: Steel Mains, Green Leaves, Bremick, NZ Panels Group.
Founded in 2000 as an independent Private Equity manager, Crescent’s large and experienced investment team includes more than 45 investment and management professionals.
Crescent empowers our investment portfolio senior management teams with the strategic and operational tools to grow their business.
Crescent is the market-leading healthcare franchise in Australia with a stable, long-term partner group who have worked together across industries and sectors.
Sector Expertise
01Healthcare
Healthcare is Crescent’s largest sector by investment. Our team have over 35 years of experience across the full spectrum of healthcare and allied health businesses. Healthcare
02Industrials
Crescent is the most active Private Equity investor in industrial companies in Australia, having invested in 14 industrial businesses in the last 6 funds.
03Financial Services
Crescent has achieved strong success in Financial Services with expertise in creating value through organic growth, acquisitions and geographical expansion into Asia.
04Services and Industrial Technology
Crescent’s investments across the education, business services and industrial technology sectors have helped innovate Australian businesses compete on a global stage.
05Consumer
Crescent has deep experience across numerous subsectors of the broad consumer landscape including consumer health, skincare, Consumer Packaged Goods and pet health and products.
Uniquely Focused Fund Australia has a record of building market leading global consumer brands looking for investment to expand into international markets.
This fund is dedicated to this sector lead by a specialist consumer team with international experience and a domestic focus.
Specialist Investment Expertise
With the addition of this new strategy comes the welcoming of a new, highly experienced partner and investment team with the ability to source Australian companies ready for private equity investment.
Differentiated Investment Strategy
The investment approach for the Consumer Fund is to be in the only domestic private equity manager with specialised resources on the ground in Australia focussed on consumer brands. The strategy will adapt to small and large deals across a spectrum of ownership structures.
Category and Growth Focus
The depth of experience in our investment team mean their focus and analysis will be on the specific categories in the consumer market that are ready to grow and prosper and where the benefits of private equity investment are most profound.
Our Investment Approach
Crescent Capital Partners is a value-add manager; we make investments based on long-term thematics and employ a high engagement model of management. Our team develops and assists businesses reach their strategic and operational capabilities to enable them to grow and prosper.
Our Role
We provide support to business founders and their senior management teams to enable the achievement of their private equity goals. We accelerate business decisions by providing capital and an unparalleled breadth of experience.
Our Private Equity Team
Michael Alscher
Founder, Managing Partner – BComm
35+ years experience in financial management and accounting.
Ex Saffery (London)
Peter Lyon-Mercado
Partner – BEng (Civil) (Hons), FCA, SA Fin
35+ years in the healthcare sector, both as a CEO and in private equity investing.
Ex Co-founder and CEO of Life Healthcare Group Limited (ASX:LHC), COO of MIA Group Limited, CEO Healthcare Australia (Mayne Group)
Chair: Healthcare Australia, Wellbeing Group and Australia Institute of Business
Daren McKennay
Partner – BBus, MBA, CA
40+ years experience in operating roles and M&A.
Ex Global Deputy Chairman of Tyco Fire & Security and former CEO of Tyco Fire and Security Asia Pacific.
Chair: NZ Panels Group, Viridian, Hall Contracting, and Steel Mains.
Neville Buch
Partner – BSc Eng (Hons), MBA
25 years experience in strategy consulting, private equity and banking.
Ex McKinsey & Company.
Chair: National Dental Care, Airesafe, ClearView Ltd (ASX), Emapta.
Nathanial Thomson
Partner – BComm (Hons), LlB (Hons)
15+ years experience in strategy consulting and private equity
Ex A.T. Kearney
Chair: EMAPTA, Canopy.
Stuart Butterworth
Partner – BA / LLB (First Class)
16+ years experience in private equity and investment banking focussed on consumer and healthcare in ANZ, Europe and Asia. Extensive NED experience globally.
Ex Managing Director & Head of ANZ at L Catterton, Investment Director at New Hope Group, Executive Director Goldman Sachs Consumer Healthcare, Nomura and UBS.
Ondrej Ruzicka
Managing Partner Crescent Growth – B.Bus, MBA
10+ years experience in private equity, strategy consulting and M&A
Ex McKinsey & Company, King & Wood Mallesons
Director: Wellbeing Group, HCA
Patrick Schmidt
Investment Director – BComm (Fin)/LLB (First Class Hons), MBA
Extensive experience in private equity and investment banking with focus on consumer and healthcare sectors.
Ex Principal at L Catterton, Investment Banking Associate Goldman Sachs Consumer Healthcare, Pacific Capital and Citi.
Giuseppe Valletta
Investment Director – BSc(physics), MSc(physics)
12+ years experience in private equity
Ex Ernst and Young
Eugen Lamotte
CFO Private Equity Funds – BComm, Master Financial Analysis
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