Waterland Private Equity
Sam Daems is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in private equity, business transformation, and strategic planning. Currently serving as a Portfolio Principal and Investment Director at Waterland Private Equity since January 2016, Sam also holds positions as a Fellow at Belgium's 40 under 40 and a Doctoral Researcher at the I3h Institute, focusing research on innovative financing models for therapeutics for children with cancer. Previous roles include Head of Business Transformation and Business Development, Secretary to the Executive Committee, and Group Strategic Planner at Tessenderlo Group, as well as Consultant at Bain & Company. Sam holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from KU Leuven.
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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.