Waterland Private Equity
Lex Douze has extensive experience in investment and technology, currently serving as Chief Investment Officer at Waterland Private Equity since December 2001. Prior roles include CTO at Every Angle, Founder and CTO at PaperX, and VP of Professional Services at Tridion. Lex began a consulting career at The Boston Consulting Group between March 1995 and December 1997. Academic credentials include an MBA from Harvard Business School and advanced degrees in Business Law and Computer Science from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Waterland Private Equity
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Waterland is an independent private equity investment group that supports entrepreneurs in realizing their growth ambitions. With substantial financial resources and committed industry expertise, Waterland enables its portfolio companies to achieve accelerated growth both organically and through acquisitions. Waterland is an active investor in the financial, strategic and operational sense. In the current dynamic business environment with an increasing number of mergers and acquisitions, Waterland is a partner that provides entrepreneurs with a powerful position in the increasingly competitive international arena. Since the start in 1999, the firm has made investments in more than 1100 companies. Waterland currently manages more than €14 billion of investor commitments. Investments are made in markets with attractive characteristics for a consolidation strategy: consistent growth, sufficient size, sustainable profitability, fragmentation and (indication of) consolidation. Waterland focusses on industries that are undergoing change as a consequence of one or more of the following trends: sustainability, digitalization and outsourcing, ageing population, and leisure and wellbeing. Waterland employs 180 professionals. Our teams are based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, France, Spain, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark and operate across Europe.