Max Bleyleben

I'm currently with Kennet Partners, a London-based growth equity investor in technology companies in Europe and the US.

I have been involved with a number of European software, services and Internet companies, including Aspective (acquired by Vodafone UK), TradingPartners, FRS Global, Telemedicine Clinic, NTRglobal, and Spreadshirt.

Before joining Kennet, I was in corporate finance at Broadview International, working on European and US technology M&A transactions and private placements.

Before doing my MBA at Insead in 1997, I had what was probably the best job in the world (for twentysomethings): producing country reports on emerging markets for different newspapers. They sent me to a dozen countries over a 4-year period, on pretty much every continent.

In keeping with the suitcase theme, my university days were split between Bard College, New York and the American University of Paris.