Simon Begg

Simon is a co-founder and Investment Committee member of Corten Capital, with 20 years’ TMT investing experience as well as leadership roles in capital markets and financing, transaction execution and portfolio support. Prior to co-founding Corten Capital, Simon was a Partner at Warburg Pincus, one of the world’s leading private equity firms. At Warburg Pincus, he was involved in the structuring, execution and value realisation of more than $20B of investments across its European portfolio and was a senior member of the TMT team. Simon served as COO of its European business, was a board director of Safetykleen and Mercator, and played a lead portfolio support role with several Warburg Pincus portfolio companies including Ziggo.

Prior to Warburg Pincus, Simon worked at Apax Partners in London and at Time Warner in New York. He received an M.Eng in Engineering, Economics and Management from Brasenose College, Oxford.