Investment Manager Overview
Headquartered in Amsterdam, Holland Private Equity is a private equity firm focused on expansion capital/growth investments in small and mid-cap technology companies in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Average ticket sizes are Euro 10-15 million for a significant minority stake.
Holland Private Equity (“HPE”) was founded by Hans van Ierland and Tim van Delden. The mission of Holland Private Equity: “Investing in tomorrow’s market leaders”
HPE independently screens, selects and supports small to medium-sized technology companies which have the potential and ambition to become a true leader in its market and segment. HPE has built a team of investment professionals and special advisors (financial, operational and technology veterans) to work closely with management teams to accelerate a Company’s growth. For more information see the website of the Investment Manager.
Fund Overview
HPE focuses on late-stage growth technology companies. Companies that have a blue-chip customer base, protected IP and technology, a profitable margin and an outstanding management team. They have become local champions but have the ambition to accelerate their top- and bottom-line growth through the expansion of international sales and marketing, buy-and-build strategies and the professionalization to a best of breed back-office organisation. As such, these companies need more than capital alone to achieve their goal to become tomorrow’s market leaders.
HPE focuses on technology-related industries that are “asset light” and therefore quickly scalable.
On January 1, 2010 the HPE PRO Institutional Fund B.V. had its first closing and targets a total volume of Euro 150 million. In July 2010 HPE closed its first investment.
The Team
Hans van Ierland
Hans van Ierland is co-founder, and CEO of Holland Private Equity. He also co-founded Holland Corporate Finance in 1997(HCF), where he served for 11 years as managing partner, before moving to the Supervisory Board in summer 2008. He has helped to build HCF to the leading M&A advisory and corporate finance firm focused on the Benelux mid-cap market. Formerly, Mr. van Ierland was the co-Head of PwC’s corporate finance department in the Netherlands. He started his career in the Executive Program of Shell as Petroleum Engineer.
With more than 20 years of financial expertise, Mr. van Ierland has an outstanding track-record in the field of midmarket M&A advisory and corporate finance. During his last 10 years with Holland Corporate Finance, Mr. van Ierland and his team closed more than 120 transactions with a personal focus on technology transactions (sell-side, buy-side, IPO, financings etc.).
Tim van Delden
Tim van Delden is co-founder, and CIO of Holland Private Equity. In the years before, he held various positions with the multi-billion technology-focused private equity firm General Atlantic Partners and with the special situations firm Avenue Capital Group. In his last position, Mr. van Delden headed the German operations of Avenue Capital in Munich.
Mr. van Delden’s outstanding investment track-record includes successful investments such as D+S Europe AG, Wirecard AG and Smartrac AG. In his role as an investor, he served on various Supervisory Boards.
Harry Dolman
Harry Dolman is Partner and COO of Holland Private Equity. Before joining on September 1, 2009 as a full-time Partner, Mr. Dolman was a Special Advisor of Holland Private Equity. He has over 20 years of international management experience and for the past 8 years has been Executive Vice President at Disney Consumer Products Worldwide. Mr. Dolman is a specialist in change management, restructuring and management tools.
During his period at Disney, Mr. Dolman has been instrumental in turning around Disney Consumer Products to a sustainable, significantly growing multi-billion dollar business in 2008. Formerly, Mr. Dolman worked at Disney Consumer Products Europe, where he built and led the European organization.
Mr. Dolman started his career with Nutricia (Numico) in 1987 in Corporate Logistics and subsequently in Sales and Marketing. He holds a MSc. in mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau in France.
Website of Investment Manager: www.hollandpe.com
