Stephen Peel

Stephen Peel
Born Stephen Mark Peel
(1965-12-29) 29 December 1965
Blackburn, Lancashire, Engalnd
Residence Bayswater, London, England
Nationality British
Education King's School, Chester
Alma mater Downing College, Cambridge
Occupation businessman
Spouse(s)
Yana Peel (m. 1999)
Children 2

Stephen Mark Peel (born 29 December 1965) is a British businessman, private equity investor and philanthropist who, until 2014, was one of the senior partners at the global private equity firm TPG Capital.[1]. Peel has founded his own private equity firm, Novalpina Capital. He is the founder of SMP Policy Innovation Ltd, a not-for-profit policy organization aiming to promote, design and assist government policy.

Early life

Peel was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, on 29 December 1965.[2][3] He was educated at King's School, Chester.[4][5] He earned a degree in land economy at Downing College, Cambridge in 1987, and is now a Wilkins Fellow.[6][7] In 2015 he did an MAS at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at Yale University.[8]

Career

Peel worked at Goldman Sachs from 1989, founded TPG's European operations in 1997, ran their Russian and Eastern European operations from 2006 and co-headed the Asia operations from 2009-2013.[9] He also co-founded the philanthropic Private Equity Foundation (now Impetus PEF).

Peel is a visiting fellow of practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University where he is involved in a project developing a new policy framework for low-income country industrialization and is on the advisory council of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.[8]

Personal life

He represented Great Britain in coxless fours rowing at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.[2]

He has been married to Yana Peel, the CEO of London's Serpentine Galleries, and they have two children.[10][11] They married in 1999, and live in Bayswater, London.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Top TPG Dealmaker Stephen Peel to Leave Firm". Wall Street Journal.
  2. 1 2 "Stephen Peel Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  3. ↑ "Stephen Mark PEEL - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Notable Alumni - The King's School Chester". kingschester.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  5. ↑ Chronicle, Chester (2 January 2014). "Proof of the pudding is in the rowing". chesterchronicle.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  6. ↑ rp441 (7 November 2016). "Stephen Peel". cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  7. ↑ rp441 (7 November 2016). "Stephen Peel admitted as a Wilkins Fellow".
  8. 1 2 "Yale - Graduate Students".
  9. ↑ "TPG’s Dattels Named Co-Head of Asia as Stephen Peel Steps Down". Bloomberg Business.
  10. ↑ "A conversation with Yana Peel". Ocula.com. 2014-05-14. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  11. ↑ Clark, Simon (2014-06-20). "Top TPG Dealmaker Stephen Peel to Leave Firm". WSJ.com. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  12. ↑ "Yana Peel: 'Like Zaha Hadid, I believe in experimentation'". standard.co.uk. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
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