Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 Winners Edition

CFO of DPE Deutsche Private Equity SADIA WERN-SUKHERA ABOUT SADIA WERN-SUKHERA Sadia Wern-Sukhera joined DPE as Group CFO in 2018. She is responsible for Finance, Fund management, Legal, IT and Office administration area of DPE. She is also managing the risk management side since Feb. 2019 as CRO of DPE. Before joining DPE, Sadia worked as Finance Director & Partner at Captiva (former. Natixis Capital Partners). Sadia started her career with France Telecom and has worked in the last years for Fortress Investment and other big names. Sadia is a senior financial management executive with more than 16 years of professional experience in finance. Thereof more than 12 years in private equity, special AIFs & real estate sector, dealing with complicated corporate structures including local and foreign entities. The focus of her work has been implementation of fund structure, running fund management and taking responsibility of the fund liquidation from an economic perspective. She has an excellent track record in managing closed end -/ public funds (up to €1.5 billion). FIRM PROFILE DPE is an independent German investment company, investing in medium-sized companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since its founding in 2007, DPE has successfully launched three funds with a total volume of €1.2 billion. Over the last 5 years, DPE has developed into one of the largest German growth capital providers with the strongest growth over recent years. Today, DPE employs 34 people thereof almost 20 Investment and Operations Professionals. The senior team has over 100 years of experience investing in German “Mittelstand” and nearly 40 years operating experience in senior management roles. Since 2007, DPE has participated in a large number of companies, which in turn have made a large number of follow-up investments. These companies were able to significantly increase their annual sales organically as well as with add-on acquisitions. In addition, several thousand jobs have been created in the DPE corporate family. Our portfolio-companies currently employ approximately 8,300 staff members. DPE supports entrepreneurs on their growth course as an active partner. With growth capital, experience, trust, respect and all the support a business family like DPE can provide. Facts & Figures • 3 funds with a total of €1.2bn capital under management • Since 2007 we invested in 27 companies and supported them in 60 add-on acquisitions Investment Philosophy • Growth Investments in promising Sectors of the German Mittelstand • No time pressure, no focus on quarterly results, no financial acrobatics • Capital from entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs www.dpe.de www.finance-monthly.com 36 Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 GERMANY