Montana Capital Partners announces key promotions

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Key promotions at Montana Capital Partners

Montana Capital Partners (“mcp”) has made two key promotions, including one to the new role of Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and one to Managing Partner. These promotions further strengthen the platform in order to take advantage of current and future growth opportunities in line with mcp’s highly differentiated strategy based on proactive sourcing of customized transactions in the mid-market.

The Swiss-based global private equity secondaries firm has promoted Eduard Lemle to the newly created role of CIO, in addition to his existing role of Managing Partner. He will continue to serve on the Investment Committee and the Executive Committee, as well as oversee mcp’s investment activities in the U.S. from mcp’s headquarter in Zug. With two decades of private equity investment experience, Eduard joined mcp in 2015 and has played an important role in investing its last three funds, building up the firm’s investment activities in the U.S., and helping in developing its highly analytical investment process and pro-active portfolio construction approach.

Another key promotion is that of Dr. Stephan Wessel to Managing Partner. Stephan joined mcp in 2022 with a background in direct investing. In his previous capacity, he advised a large European family office as external CIO with the development of their private investing program. He started his career in M&A at a global investment bank in 2004. Since joining mcp, Stephan has led notable transactions across highly customized LP and GP-led deals. He serves on mcp’s Investment Committee and Executive Committee.

Other promotions include that of Maelle Reichenbach (Zug) and Simon Wickström (New York) to Director.