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Stephen Peel
Personal information
Birth nameStephen Mark Peel
Born (1965-12-29) 29 December 1965 (age 58)
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
EducationKing's School, Chester
Alma materDowning College, Cambridge
OccupationPrivate equity investor
Spouse
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(m. 1999)​
Medal record
Rowing
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1986 Edinburgh eight

Stephen Mark Peel (born 29 December 1965) is a British businessman, private equity investor and Olympic athlete.

Early life

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Peel was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, on 29 December 1965.[1][2]

He was educated at King's School, Chester.[3][4] He has a degree in land economy from Downing College, Cambridge in 1987 and is currently a Wilkins Fellow.[5][6] In 2015, he completed a Masters of Advanced Studies degree at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at Yale University.[7]

Rowing career

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Peel started his rowing career at King’s School Chester. He went on to row in the Blue Boat for the three years of his undergraduate degree while studying at the University of Cambridge. Peel also served as Cambridge University Boat Club President in 1987.[8]

He rowed in the Great Britain national team from 1985 to 1988.[9] Peel represented Great Britain in coxless fours rowing at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.[1] He represented England and won a silver medal in the eight, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[10][11]

Peel is the founder of the Infinity Boat Club in Teesside, which was created to help deliver a competitive rowing program to less privileged school children in the area.[12]

Peel is also part of a group of founding donors that assisted with the establishment of The Cambridge University Boat Club Rowing Charitable Fund. [13]

Career

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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 to 2013.[14] In 2014, Peel left TPG Capital.[15]

Peel chairs the board of the Tujenge Africa Foundation, which was founded in 2015.[16]

From 2016 to 2017, Peel served as a visiting fellow of practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.[17]

He is on the advisory council of the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University.[18]

Peel is on the Advisory Board of the Institute for State Effectiveness, which is works on pathways for economic development, peace, and stability within various countries and across different regions in the world.[19]

Until 2014, Peel was a senior partner at the global private equity firm TPG Capital.[15] In 2016, Peel co-founded a new private equity firm, Novalpina Capital, which focused on control-orientated equity investments in European middle market businesses.[20] After a dispute between the three founders, the firm’s investors voted to remove it as fund manager of its private equity fund in 2021.[21] The firm was previously most notable for its majority stake that amounted to 70% in Israeli surveillance technology firm NSO Group, which was acquired in February 2019.[22][23]

Peel stepped down as a non-executive director at the NGO, Global Witness. [24]

Peel is the founder of SMP Policy Innovation Ltd, a not-for-profit policy organisation aiming to promote, design and assist government policy.[25]

Personal life

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He is married to Yana Peel, who is a businesswoman, philanthropist and arts patron, most recently global head of arts and culture at Chanel, and they have two children.[26][27][28][29] They married in 1999, and live in Bayswater, London.[30]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Stephen Peel Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Stephen Mark PEEL – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Companies House, Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Notable Alumni – The King's School Chester". kingschester.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  4. ^ Chronicle, Chester (2 January 2014). "Proof of the pudding is in the rowing". chesterchronicle.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  5. ^ rp441 (7 November 2016). "Stephen Peel". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ rp441 (7 November 2016). "Stephen Peel admitted as a Wilkins Fellow".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Graduate Students Awarded $20K Prize for Health Care Technology Project".
  8. ^ "Benefactors". Cambridge University Boat Club. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Benefactors". Cambridge University Boat Club. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  10. ^ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
  11. ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  12. ^ "Benefactors". Cambridge University Boat Club. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  13. ^ "CUBC launches the Cambridge Rowing Charitable Fund". Cambridge University Boat Club. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  14. ^ "TPG's Dattels Named Co-Head of Asia as Stephen Peel Steps Down". Bloomberg Business.
  15. ^ a b "Top TPG Dealmaker Stephen Peel to Leave Firm". The Wall Street Journal.
  16. ^ "Peacebuilding through Education in Burundi and Beyond: Tujenge Africa Foundation". Skees Family Foundation. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  17. ^ "Former TPG executive Peel preps debut fund at 1 bln euros". PE Hub. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  18. ^ Pangburn, D. J. (9 March 2019). "Israeli cyberattack firm woos investors amid a human rights firestorm". Fast Company. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  19. ^ "Stephen Peel". The Trilateral Commission. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  20. ^ "Novalpina Capital | An independent private equity firm based in London". Novalpina Capital. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  21. ^ "From spyware to landmine clearance - how Novalpina fell apart". Financial Times. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  22. ^ "Novalpina Capital and founders buy NSO at $1b co value". Globes. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  23. ^ Sabbagh, Dan (18 May 2019). "Israeli firm linked to WhatsApp spyware attack faces lawsuit". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  24. ^ "Private Equity Power Couple behind NSO Spyware Scandal". The Times. 25 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  25. ^ "Stephen Peel". Cambridge University. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  26. ^ "A conversation with Yana Peel". Ocula.com. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  27. ^ Clark, Simon (20 June 2014). "Top TPG Dealmaker Stephen Peel to Leave Firm". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  28. ^ Swaine, Jon; Kirchgaessner, Stephanie; Greenfield, Patrick (18 June 2019). "Serpentine Galleries chief resigns in spyware firm row". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  29. ^ "Chanel's Yana Peel On Collaborating With Tilda Swinton To Discover The Next Generation Of Artists". Forbes.
  30. ^ "Yana Peel: 'Like Zaha Hadid, I believe in experimentation'". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
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