Jon Moulton, the high-profile head of Alchemy Partners, has been named private equity personality of the year in a poll by PrivateEquityOnline, a website covering the European private equity market.
Users of the site also put Alchemy's failed bid for the then BMW-owned, car manufacturer Rover in top spot as deal of the year, squeezing out Doughty Hanson's successful £1.4bn (€2.2bn) acquisition of Rank Hovis McDougall.