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Introducing Alain Gavin

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Alain has an in-depth grasp of diverse technologies backed by a solid engineering background

  • Chartered Engineer with a first degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (BENG Hons).
  • MSc/MBA London Business School Sloan programme
  • Practical experience in a diverse range of business sectors (see sector experience page)
Psion Partners has direct access to experts in various industries with different relevant functional expertise. These bring substantial experience to bear on the execution of projects.
  • Electronics/High tech
  • Internet/New Media & IT/SaaS
  • Solar and Wind technologies
  • Glass, laser and optics technologies
  • Composite materials
  • Telecommunications and radar
  • Pharmaceutical/Health Diagnostics
  • Transportation - rail
  • Leisure and Wellness   

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At Psion Partners Alain works with High Net Worth individuals and VCs/Private Equity houses.

He brings in-depth experience in managing and implementing large-scale technology and process change programs in Germany, USA and Japan.

Alain is an expert practitioner in the sourcing and closing of investment opportunities as well as post-acquisition portfolio management.

He has over 19 years of significant hands-on experience in mergers & acquisitions, turnarounds and successful development of new business ventures.
Recent projects

Combines transactional, strategic, client-facing operational P&L, investment/divestment and entrepreneurial experience

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During the last 8 years Alain has gained extensive experience in private equity style investments and divestments from both a corporate and private equity perspective, having participated or led in the execution of 5 M&A transactions (up to 200m euros) and 2 divestments/carve-outs/part closures (up to 120m euros and 1,500 employees). In one case well over 300 euros million in additional annual revenue was added within 3 years.

Through different ventures, Alain has worked in both B2B and consumer services sectors, building businesses from scratch four times and having on 4 occasions up to 40m euros direct P&L responsibility growing businesses focusing on value creation and extraction.

This investment & transaction experience has been combined with operational, strategic management consultancy and strategic corporate oversight of portfolio companies. Alain has led or taken part in 6 turnaround projects (ranging up to 400m euros in revenue) and 7 business growth projects to push profitability and cash strength.
Contact Details

Valuable network & financial grounding to facilitate business value creation

 Leadership, interpersonal skills & motivational power

Mobile:+44 78 301 29710

Email: alain@psionpartners.com
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Alain interacts on a daily basis with a valuable network of well placed people across a variety of industry settings to achieve faster, more effective and well qualified action as well as generate a pipeline of proprietary deal flow origination.

Practical experience in different functions throughout his career combined with The London Business School Sloan programme (MSc/MBA), has helped him to continuously add valuable frameworks and analytical models to his toolbox for application to different practical business situations.

Having personally led cross-functional and cross-cultural teams of between 3 and 40 people across international boundaries, as well as other workforces, he strongly believes that communicating simply, enabling empowerment and recognising & rewarding achievement partly through equity stakes are instrumental to building long term loyalty and value creation within businesses.

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