Bridgepoint

He joined Bridgepoint in 2007 and was previously a managing director at Helix Associates, the private equity placement agents. Before joining Helix in 1997, John co-founded Yucatan Foods in Santa Monica, California, a speciality food company where he arranged several rounds of equity and debt financings. He previously worked at WSGP Partners, a private equity firm established by former US Treasury Secretary William E Simon in Los Angeles, and at Morgan Stanley, working in corporate finance and in its offices in New York, London and Sydney. John is a US citizen and a graduate of Yale College.  He is a member of the Mid-Market Buyout Platform Council of the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EVCA) and chaired the Task Force responsible for the EVCA Mid Market Forum held in Budapest in October 2011.  Previously John has chaired or served on the Task Forces producing the editions of the EVCA Investors’ Forum from 2005-2010, and has regularly contributed chapters to books on private equity industry topics published by Private Equity International.