Who Should Attend

Workshop 1
Training Workshop 1 will cover general training on the Principles of Private Equity and Venture Capital and is opened to private equity and venture capital stakeholders to include:

  • General Partners
  • Limited Partners
  • Fund Managers
  • Bankers and Financial Intermediaries
  • Lawyers
  • Accountants
  • Individual investors
  • Institutional investors
  • Corporate investors
  • M&A professionals
  • Consultants
  • Incubator/accelerator Managers
  • Public Sector regulators and policy makers

 
Workshop 2
Training Workshop 2 will provide specialized training for investors and financiers and will focus on deepening the understanding of the asset class.  Participants to this workshop are:

  • Limited Partners
  • General Partners
  • Individual Investors
  • Angle Investors
  • Corporate and Institutional Investors
  • Finance Managers
  • Family Office
  • Consultants
  • Fund managers
  • Placements Specialists
  • Lawyers
  • Accountants

Programme Director


Garry Sharp has been active in the private equity markets as a practitioner, trainer, writer and adviser since 1985, when he joined a nascent UK venture capital firm. He participated in the firm’s own management buyout in 1989, its subsequent rapid growth and in its sale to a major financial institution in 1996. Following this sale, he co-founded Independent Direction, this firm too achieved rapid growth and was successfully sold in 2005.