Permira appoints Erich Hunziker as Senior Adviser to Healthcare team

Press Release
About Permira
Permira is a European private equity firm with global reach. The Permira funds,
raised from pension funds and other institutions, make long-term investments in
companies with the ambition of transforming their performance and driving
sustainable growth.
Founded in 1985, the firm advises funds with a total committed capital of
approximately €20 billion. Over the past 27 years the Permira funds have made
nearly 200 private equity investments with a focus on driving transformation to
build better businesses.
Permira specialises in five key sectors: Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare,
Industrials and TMT. The Permira funds‟ portfolio currently comprises 24
companies.
The Permira Global Healthcare team was established in 2008. It is led by
Mubasher Sheikh who joined from McKinsey in February 2012 and is now 10
people strong. The Permira funds are currently invested in Creganna-Tactx
Medical, a leading global provider of outsourced solutions to medical devices
companies.
Permira employs over 120 professionals based in Frankfurt, Guernsey, Hong
Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Menlo Park, Milan, New York, Paris,
Stockholm and Tokyo. Permira endorses the ILPA Private Equity Principles.
For more information visit: www.permira.com
About Erich Hunziker
Career chronology:
2001-2011: Roche Group
Member of the Executive Committee and CFO
CFO and Chief Informatics Officer concurrently
Deputy Head of the Corporate Executive Committee
1997-2001: CEO, Diethelm Keller Group, Switzerland
1997: CFO, Corange Ltd (sold to Roche Group)
1988-1997: Boehringer Mannheim
1983-1988: Pharmaceuticals Corange Ltd
1976-1981: Doctoral Thesis, “The history of the global build-up of Swiss
Multinational companies”