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Our Leadership Heritage

Potentia Inc was founded in 2001 in UK. Till 2005 it operated Pan European mandates for mid-market companies. In 2006, we moved our headquarters to UAE, where it operated till 2018. Re-established in UK in 2022, we aim to run the global PE platform from London.

 

Partners at Potentia have all been entrepreneurs and successfully ran and exited numerous business globally. That is our core strength - to bring business operating knowledge and access to strategic capital to our partner companies to take them to the next level.

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Managing Partner

Adeel A. Khan

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  • 27 yrs experience in Private Equity, Management, Debt, M&A Advisory, Fund Management

  • Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, J P Morgan, Integral

  • Sectors: Food, Finance & Tech

  • BEng Imperial, MSc Oxford, MBA Imperial

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Partner - Europe / Middle East

Jonathan Hall

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  • 28 yrs experience in Private Equity, M&A Advisory, Fund Management

  • PwC, HSBC, FoodPacific, Abraaj, TVM Capital, Auvest

  • Sectors: Food, Finance & Tech

  • BA Cambridge

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Partner

Christopher Wright

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  • 31 yrs experience in Private Equity, Management, Fund Management

  • Roper Industries, Merifin Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort, Maxcess Intl,

  • Sectors: Software, Food, Finance & Tech

  • MA, Oxford,  Honorary Foundation Fellow, Corpus Christi

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Partner

Moshfeque Rizvi

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  • 20 yrs experience in Macro Fiscal, Gov, PIP,  Tax Investments, Advisory

  • Standard Bank, Arvox, Times Securities, Desh General,

  • Sectors: Legal, Insurance & Finance

  • BA, Oxford

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Associated Partner

Katherine Ireland

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  • 18+yrs experience in private equity and venture investing, strategic advisory

  • Goldman Sachs, Centerbridge Partners, L.P., Palamon Capital Partners 

  • Sectors: Tech, Retail, Mining, Renewable

  • B.A, Williams College, MBA, Harvard Business School

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Associated Partner

William Knight

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  • 35+yrs experience in project finance, sovereign lending, capital markets, public and private equity investing, strategic advisory

  • Lazards, Lloyds Bank Group, J. P Morgan Chinese Investment Trust Plc, 

  • Sectors: Private Equity, Project Finance, Funds

  • Eton College

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Associated Partner - Canada

David Creighton, ICD.D, FRGS

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  • 27 yrs experience in Private Equity, Investments, Emerging Markets

  • Convergence Blended Finance, Cordiant, EMPEA

  • Sectors: Sustainable Investment, Infrastructure

  • BA (Hons) in Agricultural Economics, University of Guelph

    • Guest Lecturer at Wharton ​

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Associated Partner - Investors Relations

Monika Drwila

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  • 17 yrs experience in Private Capital, Fund Placement, Hedge Funds, Banking

  • Citi, ABN Amro, Alfa, PWC, PepsiCo, Pharos Financial Group

  • Sectors: Ventures. Private Equity, Funds, Equities, 

  • BA, Dominican University, US

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Associated Partner - East Europe

James Canning-Cooke

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  • 18 yrs experience in Private Equity, M&A Advisory, Fund Management

  • Broadgate Capital, Opus Growth Capital, Mulberry Tree Capital, BBC

  • Sectors: Real Estate, Tech, Food, 

  • BA, Oxford

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Associated Partner - India

Aaron Rai - CFA

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  • 10 yrs experience in Management, Private Equity, M&A 

  • Carillion Private Finance, Equitix Ltd, Candesic, E&Y

  • Sectors: Renewables, Sustainability, Private Equity, 

  • MEng, Oxford, M.Res, Cambridge

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Associated Partner - Vietnam / Netherlands

Rob Rijnders

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  • 18 yrs experience in Management, Private Equity, Intl Business

  • PepsiCo, Unilever, OSOTSPA, Signature 

  • Sectors: Food, Sustainability, Private Equity, 

  • MA Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    BA HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht

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Associated Partner - Malaysia

John Yip

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  • 30 years’ experience in M&A advisory & financing, bonds and Sukuk

  • First Abu Dhabi Bank, DBS Bank, UOB, International Investor-Kuwait, RHB Investment 

  • Sectors : Banking & Islamic Finance,

  • DBA, Manchester University.  LLB, NU Singapore

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Associated Partner - Brunei

Edwin Khan 

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  • 18 yrs experience in Investment Analysis,  Policy, Business Development, Strategy

  • Prompt Marine, Massuterra Engineering, KMST Sdn Bhd. L&L Advisors

  • Sectors: Oil & Gas, Food, Agri

  • Harrow School, MA, Oxford

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Associated Partner - Pakistan / GCC

Syed Ali Nadir

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  • 28 yrs experience in M&A, Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Venture Capital, 

  • Citibank, NatWest Markets, Bankers Trust, Deutsche Bank, Millennium Finance 

  • Sectors: Consumer, (F&B, Fashion), Transportation & Infrastructure, Logistics, Early stage technology 

  • B.Eng (Electrical), MBA (LUMS, Pakistan)

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Associated Partner - Philippines 

Mark Forsyth 

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  • 26 yrs experience in International Business & 30 Years Finance Experience.

  • DHL, Firstfolio, Icon Media Lab, O&B, Alamat Capital

  • Sectors: Logistics, Banking & Finance, Real Estate, Technology, ESG

  • BA, University of Derby

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Associated Partner - Indonesia

John Layburn

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  • 25 yrs experience in Investments, Venture,  Aquaculture, financial services 

  • PwC, Agria Corp, EY, Alune, Founder Dalos, 

  • Sectors: Aqua, Agri, consumer & industrial

  • MA, Oxford,

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Karla Sky

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Chief of Staff

Professional Man

Satino Scario
CPA

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Head of Transactions

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Neil Umpig 
CPA, FMVA

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Senior Analyst

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