Ross Butler

Rupert Evill joins Ross Butler to discuss ethics in business and investment, covering due diligence, fraud, corruption and how to act with integrity as a business leader and owner, with a special focus on private equity and impact investing.

Tim Chamberlain of Brunel Partners joins Ross Butler to discuss private capital in Brazil and Latin America, including private equity, private credit, infrastructure, agriculture, critical minerals, currency risk and family office capital.

Emilio Domingo of Bain & Company joins Ross Butler to discuss Bain’s 2026 private equity outlook, why “12 is the new five”, and how value creation, AI, EBITDA growth and manager specialisation are reshaping buyout returns.

Mark Boggett, CEO and General Partner of Seraphim Space, joins Ross Butler to discuss SpaceTech investment beyond SpaceX, including defence demand, AI-enabled satellite data, falling launch costs, orbital infrastructure, energy, communications and venture capital opportunities.

Alexander Branton, Chief Investment Officer at Nodem Capital, joins Ross Butler to discuss what NAV really signals in private markets, how NAV lending works, why secondaries and structured liquidity tools are converging, and how evergreen funds sharpen the valuation question.

Florencia Kassai, Managing Partner and Head of Buyout at Inflexion, joins Ross Butler following Inflexion’s latest buyout fundraise to discuss what it takes to invest well in a more selective private equity market. The conversation ranges from sub-sector depth and buy-and-build execution to direct origination, continuation funds, European expansion and why Flor believes private equity […]

Evercore is the global number one in secondaries advisory, controlling more than half the market. So it’s fair to say that Nigel Dawn sees almost everything. And what he sees above all, is opportunity. Secondaries are becoming central to how private markets function -from pricing and liquidity to portfolio construction and capital recycling. At roughly […]

Private credit has scaled rapidly into a trillion dollar market, yet much of the current narrative is dominated by concerns around defaults, liquidity and AI disruption. In this episode, David Hirschmann, Co-Head of Permira Credit, explains to Ross Butler why the growth of private credit is fundamentally structural, not cyclical, and why much of the […]

Drawing on more than two decades of empirical research and extensive back-testing, Professor Oliver Gottschalg explains why algorithmic decision support can outperform “normal” human allocation, particularly in fund selection and secondaries pricing, without relying on better data or privileged access. In this episode, we look at sets out how machine learning can be applied to […]

Cyril Demaria-Bengochea is Head of Private Market Strategy at Julius Baer, Associate Professor at EDHEC Business School, and the author of several leading books on private equity. He has also advised Invest Europe, ILPA, and the European Commission, which gives him a rare vantage point across academic evidence, investor governance, and the day-to-day realities of […]