Jos B. Peeters

Dr Jos B. Peeters is Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Capricorn Partners, an independent European manager of venture capital and equity funds, investing in innovative European companies with technology as competitive advantage.

Jos has a PhD in Solid State Physics from the University of Leuven. He worked at Bell Telephone Manufacturing Cy, PA Technology and BeneVent Management, before starting Capricorn Partners. Jos was the first Chairman of the Belgian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, he served as Chairman of EVCA (now Invest Europe) and chaired their capital markets working group which led to the creation of Easdaq.

As one of the veterans of the European Venture Capital and Private Equity industry Jos was involved in over three decades of early stage investing in a broad range of technology-based companies and supported these in IPO’s on Nasdaq, Easdaq and Euronext as well as in M&A transactions.