Distinguished Guest Lecture Series
Dr. Robert Easton will share his insight on Private Equity in the current economic downturns.
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Biography
Dr. Robert Easton is a Managing Director and Co-head of Carlyle Europe Technology Partners, a team of dedicated investment professionals who focus on European growth capital and buyout opportunities in a variety of sectors including media, software, telecom, aerospace and defence, healthcare and technology.
Since joining Carlyle in 2000, Dr. Easton has worked in both Europe Buyout and Europe Technology and has also been involved with a number of cross-fund transactions at Carlyle in the United States and Japan. He has sector expertise in chemicals, advanced materials, renewables, aerospace and defence.
Dr. Easton has a first class honours degree in chemistry from Imperial College in London and a Doctorate in organic synthesis from Oxford University. In addition to his Directorships of Carlyle portfolio companies, Dr. Easton also Chairs the Global Buyout Committee of the BVCA, is a member of Walker Guidelines Monitoring Group and sits on the Advisory Board of the Imperial College Business School. Dr. Easton is a member of the Board of Directors of AZ Electronic Materials, Stahl, Ensus, Neochimiki and Gardner.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Dr. Easton was Vice President of Corporate Development at Invensys plc with responsibility for the execution of acquisitions and disposals. Dr. Easton was a key figure in the mid-nineties transformation of BTR from a diversified conglomerate to a focused engineering group and, following the merger of BTR and Siebe to form Invensys in 1999, in the further focusing of Invensys to become a leading Automation and Controls group. During this period of substantial change, he executed a total of 35 acquisitions and disposals with an aggregate value of €7 billion. Dr. Easton joined BTR in 1996 from Trafalgar House, another major U.K. engineering group where he was Director of Corporate Finance and Planning with responsibility for strategic planning and acquisitions and disposals.
Drinks reception at 19.00.
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