Vorndran Mannheims Capital GmbH
Christof Knop appointed Investment Director
Christof Knop appointed Investment Director – Former Investment Manager Christof Knop appointed Investment Director at VMCap – Dr. Helmut Vorndran, CEO of VMCap: ‘As an Investment Manager Christof Knop has been instrumental in the development and sale of several portfolio companies as well as the acquisitions of Thomas-Krenn.AG and Xortex eBusiness GmbH. His achievements have been an important contribution to the overall success of Vorndran Mannheims Capital’. Düsseldorf/St.Gallen 08.01.2014 – Christof Knop has been promoted to Investment Director as of January 1, 2014. Knop joined Vorndran Mannheims Capital in October 2008 as Investment Manager, first in St. Gallen/Zurich then reinforcing the Düsseldorf team in 2010. His activities have focused on the sourcing, structuring and execution of mid-market technology buyouts as well as the development and sale of different VMCap portfolio companies. ‘As an Investment Manager Christof Knop has been instrumental in the development and sale of several portfolio companies as well as the acquisitions of Thomas-Krenn.AG and Xortex eBusiness GmbH. His achievements have been an important contribution to the overall success of Vorndran Mannheims Capital. We look forward to continue working with him in his new position as Investment Director.’ Among other projects Christof Knop was involved in the acquisitions of Thomas-Krenn.AG (2011), Xortex eBusiness GmbH (2011) and filoo GmbH (2013). He also played an active role in the turnaround of Medos Medizintechnik AG and its subsidiaries Life Systems GmbH in Germany and Gish Biomedical Inc. in the USA up to their sale in 2010 to Sorin Group, Specialty Care Inc. and Zukunftsfonds Heilbronn. About Vorndran Mannheims Capital Press contact: End of Media Release Issuer: Vorndran Mannheims Capital GmbH Key word(s): Enterprise 08.01.2014 Dissemination of a Press Release, transmitted by DGAP – a company of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. DGAP’s Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de |
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