Board of Directors
Peter McKellar
Chair
Peter McKellar was appointed Chair of Partners Group Private Equity Limited (formerly Princess Private Equity Holding Limited) in November 2023. He currently serves as a non-executive director of 3i Group plc and Investcorp Capital plc and is a non-executive member of Scottish Enterprise.
Previously, he was Executive Chair and Global Head of Private Markets at Abrdn plc, overseeing £55 billion of AUM across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, natural resources and certain private credit capabilities. Prior to that, he was Head of Private Equity and Infrastructure at Standard Life Investments Ltd, and Lead Manager at Standard Life Private Equity Trust, a London listed investment trust. Mr. McKellar has over 30 years of experience in private markets, making direct investments, co-investments and fund investments, as well as being a member and chair of various investment committees. Peter started his career at JP Morgan in New York and London in 1987.
Mr. McKellar holds a Bachelor of Law from Edinburgh University.
Merise Wheatley
Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee
Merise Wheatley is a Guernsey resident and has thirty five years’ experience at Board level in risk financing and insurance management. She is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, having completed her training with Abbey Life Assurance and National Mutual Life Association of Australasia in the UK, and qualified in 1982. In addition to her directorship of Partners Group Private Equity Limited (formerly Princess Private Equity Holding Limited), Merise serves as a director on the boards of a number of non-listed regulated insurance entities in Guernsey.
From 1988 until 2019 Merise worked for a number of leading insurance management service providers in Cayman, Guernsey and Malta, including Artex Risk Solutions, Heath Lambert, Marsh and Johnson & Higgins, providing strategic and operational insurance management services and serving as executive director to a portfolio of client insurance companies.
Merise is a past Chairman of the Guernsey International Insurance Association. In 2007 she achieved the Diploma in Company Direction awarded by the UK Institute of Directors.
Fionnuala Carvill
Chair of the Management Engagement Committee
Fionnuala Carvill is a Guernsey resident and a Chartered Fellow of The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment; a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking & Finance (Chartered Institute of Bankers); a Fellow of The Chartered Governance Institute and a Chartered Governance Professional. Ms Carvill is a Non-Executive Director of Investec Bank (Channel Islands) Limited, Fair Oaks Income Limited, and The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment Future Foundation.
Previous executive positions held include Managing Director of Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Investment Management Limited; Director of Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Limited; Commission Secretary and Head of Innovation at the Guernsey Financial Services Commission; and Director of Rothschild Bank (CI) Limited. Ms Carvill is a former board member of The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment; a past President and committee member of The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, Guernsey Branch; a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers; and was granted Freedom of the City of London in 2007. Ms Carvill sits on the board of several charities, holding roles from funding and capacity building to governance and impact assessment. She previously volunteered with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) where she took the role of Organisational Development Advisor during a placement with the Environment & Development Center of a university in the People's Republic of China, aiming to support program delivery, aid capacity building and develop knowledge of governance and fundraising.
Ms. Carvill holds a master's degree in Corporate Governance (Distinction).
Axel Holtrup
Axel Holtrup is a seasoned private equity investor with more than 25 years of investment experience. He is also an early stage technology investor and serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Beteiligungs AG, a German listed private equity company.
Previously he worked over the course of 20 years as a partner in private equity firms AEA Investors, Silver Lake Partners and Investcorp. His responsibilities included sourcing, executing and managing major private equity transactions across Europe. Axel started his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in 1995.
Axel holds a Bachelor (Hons) degree in European Business Administration from Middlesex University in London and a Diplom Betriebswirt from Reutlingen University in Germany. He is a German national who resides in the UK.
Gerhard Roggemann
Gerhard Roggemann is a German resident. He was appointed to the Board in March 2024 and also serves as a board member for the Else-Kroener-Fresenius Foundation, is Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board for Bremer AG, and he is an independent business consultant, based in Hanover, Germany. Gerhard's professional experience includes serving as a non-executive director and later as Chair of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Beteiligungs AG ("DBAG"), a Frankfurt-listed private equity firm focused on German mid-market buyouts (2009-2020). He has also been a non-executive director of a number of prominent German and UK companies, including Deutsche Boerse AG, Fresenius SE & Co KGaA, Friends Life Group Plc, F&C Asset Management Plc and Resolution Ltd Guernsey. Gerhard previously worked in senior management positions at JP Morgan & Co, Norddeutsche Landesbank and WestLB. In all these functions his responsibilities centered around investment banking, trading, and investment management.