Waterland Private Equity
Wendy McMillan currently serves as a Partner at Waterland Private Equity, having joined the firm in January 2024. Prior to this role, Wendy was the Sector CEO for Safety at Halma plc from February 2018 to January 2024, where full accountability included overseeing a £640m safety sector comprising 17 technology companies focused on sustainability. Additional experience includes positions as a Non-Executive Director at TT Electronics plc, Global Commercial Finance Director at Dyson, and Managing Director for Smart Metering & Machine to Machine at Arqiva. Wendy also founded WhoToAsk.com, which won the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award for Europe, and has held various strategic and leadership roles at BT, Sappi Limited, and Bain & Company. Wendy's academic credentials feature an M.Eng. from the University of Oxford, an MBA from INSEAD, and completion of the Global Leadership 2020 Executive Programme at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
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Waterland Private Equity
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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.