Ervin Schellenberg is Managing Partner, and a member of the leadership Team at Investec’s European Business Advisory Group.

For more than 30 years Ervin has acted as a trusted advisor to the boards and owners of mid-cap and large-cap companies, on 100+ complex mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, financings and buyout transactions – worth a total volume of several billion euros.

Ervin also serves on the advisory board of Hochrein GmbH, a private German technology holding; and is a member of the board of trustees of “Junge Deutsche Philharmonie” .

Ervin is fluent in German, English and Slovene.

He is a Co-founder of Capitalmind which he co-build over 20 years with his Partners and successfully merged into to Investec PLC. Before that he held several senior positions at leading private equity and investment banking firms such as Duke Street Capital, London, a €3 bn alternative asset manager focused on middle market equity and debt investments, where he served as Managing Partner of their GSA business and Citigroup’s Salomon Smith Barney, where he was part of the senior team in their European Industrials investment banking group in London.

Ervin holds a master’s degree in business administration from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. He is married and has two children.