Mr Rob Nichols, speaking at Private Equity World Australia 2011

Mr Rob Nichols,
Managing Director
Tasman Capital Partners, Australia

Rob Nichols co-founded Tasman Capital Partners in September 2008 following the management buy-out of Nikko Principal Investments Australia. Previously, Rob was a director at DB Capital Partners, the private equity division of Deutsche Bank, where he spent seven years.

Rob worked for Bankers Trust Alex. Brown in London for two years executing M&A, high yield and debt restructuring transactions. He originated a number of private equity deals for BT Capital Partners and was involved in restructuring high yield debt following the Russian Debt Crisis.

From 1991 Rob spent seven years with Deloittes in London, Warsaw, Boston and Sydney in corporate finance, business consulting and audit roles. Rob commenced his career as a trainee manager at Elders IXL in 1987.

Since 1999 Rob has led or co-led 12 private equity deals including a number of turnarounds and buy and build strategies. Rob led deals including Healthcare Australia (formerly Pacific Nursing Solutions), Aptrix, Red Sheriff and Bledisloe Group Holdings and co-led the Loscam, Enterix and Tempo transactions.

Appearing:

Conference Day Two: Tuesday 7 June 2011

15.20

Panel: Turnaround strategies for transforming underperforming companies into profitable businesses

• Clever management strategies which turned problematic
portfolio companies into successful alpha-generating assets
• How to recruit, motivate and measure executives for difficult
portfolio companies
• Execute effective debt and cost restructuring programs within
distressed companies

Mr Adrian Loader,

Managing Director,
Allegro Private Equity, Australia

Mr Rob Nichols,

Managing Director,
Tasman Capital Partners, Australia

Mr Ian Johnson,

Managing Director,
Helmsman Capital, Australia

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