• Ralph Heuwing

    Partner DACH Team PAI Performance Group

    Ralph Heuwing

    PAI Performance Group
    Partner

    Ralph joined PAI in 2020 and heads PAI’s DACH Team. He has been involved in the Apleona, Infra Group and NovaTaste investments.

    He previously worked at Knorr-Bremse, a world leading supplier to the commercial and rail vehicle industry, where he was CFO and member of the Executive Board. He led and executed the company’s initial public offering in 2018. During the previous ten years, he was CFO and member of the Executive Board of MDAX listed Dürr, a leading global mechanical and plant engineering firm.

    Prior to that Ralph was Managing Director, Partner and a member of the Management Committee at the Boston Consulting Group where he spent 17 years in various roles in Germany and helped build the firm’s operations in India.

    Ralph holds a ME degree in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen and an MBA from INSEAD.

  • Lucas Kreifels

    Investment Officer DACH Team Investment Group

    Lucas Kreifels

    Investment Group
    Investment Officer

    Lucas joined PAI in 2021 as a member of the Investment Group. He is also part of the DACH Team. He has been involved in the Theramex investment.

    Lucas previously worked at BCG in Berlin, first as a generalist consultant with a focus on enterprise strategy and financial analysis across different industries, and then as a member of the BCG Private Equity team.

    He holds a MSc in Mathematics from Imperial College London and two BSc in Mathematics and in Physics from the University of Bayreuth.

  • Daniel Krysewski

    Principal DACH Team General Industrials

    Daniel Krysewski

    General Industrials
    Principal

    Daniel joined PAI in 2021 and is a member of the General Industrials Team. He has been involved in the Infra Group investment.

    He joined from H.I.G. Capital where he spent seven years working across a variety of subsectors, primarily in the industrials and business services space. Prior to H.I.G., he worked at McKinsey & Company, where he specialised in similar areas, and Credit Suisse’s Global M&A team in New York.

    Daniel holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from European Business School Oestrich-Winkel and an MBA with distinction from New York University.

  • Andreas Kumeth

    Partner DACH Team Healthcare

    Andreas Kumeth

    Healthcare
    Partner

    Andreas joined PAI in 2014. He is a member of the DACH and Healthcare teams, and has been involved in several investments including Atos Medical, B&B Hotels, DomusVi, Theramex, Veonet, Xella and Zahneins.

    He started his career in private equity at Apax Partners in Munich and London, and also worked at Waterland Private Equity in Düsseldorf.

    Andreas graduated with a double degree from the Technical University of Munich (Mathematics) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (Economics).

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