Business advisory services

Jonathan Arrowsmith

Head of Advisory

Joining Investec in 2018, Jonathan has over 17 years of Corporate Finance experience, which included selling active assistance in 2018 to montreux capital management. Jonathan is also the Co-Head of Investec’s Private Equity Client Group. Jonathan was previously managing director at DC Advisory and manager at PwC, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Jonathan graduated from Bristol University with a First-Class Honours degree in Maths & French.

Charles Barlow

Head of Cross Border Corporate Finance

Charles joined Investec in 2017 to lead the bank’s cross border corporate finance business.  With over 26 years of investment banking experience, he has advised clients on international transactions around the world, including in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa.  Charles previously worked for Renaissance Capital, Greenhill and Deutsche Bank.  He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen and graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Degree.

Michel Degryck

Managing Partner and Board Director – Capitalmind Investec

Michel is Managing Partner and Board Director of Capitalmind, which he founded in 1999. He has worked in M&A for 20+ years, as the lead dealmaker on more than 100 transactions advised on behalf of Capitalmind, including divestitures, buy-outs, financings and acquisitions. Michel assists all types of clients, from large corporates to entrepreneurs, families and private equity houses.

Jan Willem Jonkman

Managing Partner and Board Director – Capitalmind Investec

Jan Willem is a Managing Partner and Board Director of Capitalmind, which he co-founded in 1999. He has 25+ years’ experience in M&A, and has successfully closed 100+ deals (mainly cross-border), focusing on Consumer/Food, Business Services and TMT. Jan Willem speaks Dutch, English, German and French. Before Jan Willem founded Capitalmind, he was a corporate banker and regional director commercial banking for ABN AMRO Amsterdam, managing several branch offices. Jan Willem is also a guest lecturer at Tilburg University; Chairman of one of the oldest football & cricket clubs in the Netherlands, HC & FC Victoria 1893; and from 2009 until 2015, Chairman of the Dutch Corporate Finance Association.

Ervin Schellenberg

Managing Partner, Board Director Co-Founder – Capitalmind Investec

Ervin is Managing Partner, Board Director and co-founder of Capitalmind. He focuses on the Industrial technology & technical business services sector.

For more than 27 years Ervin has acted as a trusted advisor to the boards and owners of mid-cap and large-cap companies, on 90+ 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” as well as “Rheingau Music Festival”.

Marleen Vermeer

Partner – Capitalmind Investec

Marleen is a Partner of Capitalmind Investec and joined the company in 2009. In the period 2019-2021, Marleen has temporarily worked from the San Francisco / Silicon Valley region in the US.

The last 10+ years Marleen successfully closed over 50 (crossborder) deals, naturally in several sectors including business services, TMT and industrials. Her main responsibilities include advising on sell-side transactions, funding, MBOs and company acquisitions. Marleen was chosen as number 1 female dealmaker within M&A community based on number of deals.

Besides Dutch, Marleen is fluent in English.

Between 2005 and 2009 Marleen worked at another corporate finance firm as well as a family office active in a broad range of financial services, where she was responsible for M&A. From 2010 to 2017 Marleen was an active member of Junior Chamber International in Tilburg, part of that period she had a position as board member.

Marleen Vermeer studied Business Economics at Tilburg University and graduated on the topic ‘Businesss Valuation’.