Keyhaven Capital Partners (Keyhaven), a specialist private equity firm dedicated to the European lower mid-market through co-underwriting transactions with local sponsors, has strengthened its Investor Relations team with two new hires.
In a newly created function for the firm, Patrick Gibson will hold responsibility for capital formation. Before joining Keyhaven, Gibson sourced funding for co-investment and secondary transactions on an independent basis and also provided GP advisory services to lower mid-market private equity, credit and infrastructure firms. He has a particular focus on US, UK and Benelux-based LPs. Previously Patrick worked in placement and headed Investor Relations for Deltec Private Bank in the Bahamas. He began his career in US Equity Sales covering European Hedge Funds and Asset Managers for several brokerage firms.
In addition, Birgitt Schmidhofer has been appointed as Marketing Lead, supporting the development of Keyhaven’s social media and marketing strategy across all platforms. This includes focusing on online content, PR and branding. Before joining Keyhaven, Birgitt was a Digital Marketing Coordinator at Encore, a global event production company.
