Freshstream
Mollie Rawnsley is an experienced financial professional currently serving as the Financial Controller at Freshstream since October 2022. Previously, Mollie worked as a Graduate Trainee Audit at KPMG from October 2018 to October 2022 and participated in a Graduate Programme at Wavemaker from September 2017 to September 2018. Mollie holds a Master's degree in Business Management from Durham University Business School, where a distinction was awarded, and completed a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biology at Durham University from 2013 to 2016. Furthering professional qualifications, Mollie pursued ICAEW between 2018 and 2021.
Freshstream
Freshstream was launched in September 2015. The firm is focused on mid-market investments and looks to invest between €30m and €100m of equity per investment in growth businesses across a wide variety of sectors, with a particular geographic focus on the UK and Benelux markets. Freshstream seeks to acquire majority equity stakes in the companies in which it invests, although it also has the flexibility to invest across their entire capital structures, including in debt and debt-like instruments. Freshstream is focused principally on relationship based, bilateral transactions, being comfortable with highly complicated situations and taking a generally conservative approach to leverage. Although the business is sector-agnostic, looking at each potential investment on its merits, the team has significant prior experience in industries such as healthcare, general manufacturing, financial services, aerospace, branded retail, chemicals, building products and TMT.