Waterland Private Equity
Govert Wessels is a seasoned finance professional currently serving as a Senior Associate at Waterland Private Equity since December 2023, having previously held the role of Associate. Wessels has a notable background in M&A as an M&A Manager at Xebia from 2021 to 2023 and was an Investment Manager specializing in Direct Lending/Private Credit at Aegon Asset Management from 2019 to 2021. Additionally, Wessels brought analytical expertise to Credit Suisse as an Investment Banking Analyst in 2018, focusing on the Technology, Media & Telecom sectors. Earlier experience includes managing De Kleine Consultant as Managing Director and serving as a Private Equity Summer Intern at HAL Investments. Wessels began a finance career with an Investment Banking Summer Analyst position at Credit Suisse in 2016. Wessels holds a Master’s degree in Financial Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, along with an academic foundation from Harvard University and University College Roosevelt.
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Waterland is an independent private equity investment group that supports entrepreneurs in realizing their growth ambitions. With substantial financial resources and committed industry expertise, Waterland enables its portfolio companies to achieve accelerated growth both organically and through acquisitions. Waterland is an active investor in the financial, strategic and operational sense. In the current dynamic business environment with an increasing number of mergers and acquisitions, Waterland is a partner that provides entrepreneurs with a powerful position in the increasingly competitive international arena. Since the start in 1999, the firm has made investments in more than 1100 companies. Waterland currently manages more than €14 billion of investor commitments. Investments are made in markets with attractive characteristics for a consolidation strategy: consistent growth, sufficient size, sustainable profitability, fragmentation and (indication of) consolidation. Waterland focusses on industries that are undergoing change as a consequence of one or more of the following trends: sustainability, digitalization and outsourcing, ageing population, and leisure and wellbeing. Waterland employs 180 professionals. Our teams are based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, France, Spain, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark and operate across Europe.