Roland Fohn

Managing Director - Private Equity
GE Asset Management

Roland Fohn has been involved in private equity for 17 years. He is Managing Director at GE Asset Management in London, responsible for private equity fund-of-fund and direct investment activities in Europe. Prior to this, Roland was in GE Capital’s Leveraged Finance group where he focused primarily on transactions in the telecom and media sectors . He joined GE in 1995 in the corporate audit group. Prior to this he was a financial analyst at Owens Corning.

Roland graduated as ‘Ingénieur Commercial’ from ICHEC, Brussels and holds an MBA from VUB-Solvay, Brussels.

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Main Conference Day 1 -

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

10:20 Community forum: Creating value and operational excellence - Does strategically buying cheap perform more consistently than seeking operational excellence?

- Examples of strategies that have and have not worked for:

1) Buying cheap and turning a company around

2) Buying full price and creating extra value in the business

- What type of roles should the GP take in order to achieve operational excellence?

- Do operating partners in PE funds really create value?