CVC boosts female partner ranks with JP Morgan hire

US bank's former European healthcare head becomes the only female partner at CVC's buyout arm

Thursday 14 July 2016 at 06:57

CVC boosts female partner ranks with JP Morgan hire
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CVC Capital Partners has hired a former senior JP Morgan banker as its European healthcare head, in a rare senior female hire by the private equity firm.

Cathrin Petty was previously head of healthcare for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at JP Morgan. Before that, she was a special partner at private equity firm Vitruvian Partners from 2010 to 2013 and a partner in Apax's healthcare and life sciences team from 2000 to 2010. Petty was named a Financial News Rising Star in Private Equity in 2007.