Graham Elton

Chairman, EMEA Private Equity,

London

Graham

Graham Elton is chairman of our EMEA Private Equity business. He is also a core member of our Media practice and leads our pro bono social impact work in the UK, with a particular focus on projects in the education sector.

Graham has extensive commercial due diligence experience for private equity and corporate clients across numerous industries and geographies, and merger integration and business carve-out experience in media, retail, consumer and business services. His experience also includes corporate strategy, performance improvement programs, turnaround situations, business transformation and customer and channel strategies.

In addition to his work with us, Graham serves as chairman of Lane Clark & Peacock, Pageant Media, Capital Economics and SLR Consulting. He is a board member of Now Teach and National Youth Theatre, as well as a founding trustee of the National Tutoring Foundation. Graham is also a founding member, board member, and the chair of the investment committee of Greater Share, an innovative philanthropic investment model harnessing the expertise of the world’s top performing private equity managers and-high impact NGOs to solve complex global challenges.

Prior to joining us in 2001, he was a partner at Evolution Global Partners, where he evaluated deals in media, financial services, consumer and technology sectors; chief executive officer at Miller Freeman UK (now part of Informa) where he integrated three businesses; managing director at FT Business; and strategy director at Pearson.

Graham holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an M.A. from Oxford University.

He was awarded an MBE for services to the economy in the Queen's 2020 Birthday Honours List.

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