Our Investors & Advisors

Bruce Chizen has been a Senior Adviser to the Permira Funds since July 2008 and became an Operating Partner to Permira in 2018. Former Adobe Systems, Inc. CEO, Chizen’s customer-focused vision transformed the business into one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. Before his time at Adobe, Chizen held leadership roles at Claris Corporation, a subsidiary of Apple Computer Inc., Microsoft, and Mattel Electronics.

Frédéric Court is the founder & Managing Partner of Felix Capital. He has led investments in Farfetch, Zong (sold to eBay), Vitrue (Oracle), Dailymotion (Orange), Qype (Yelp), Fizzback (Nice Systems) and Ubiquisys (Cisco).

Tom Ebling formerly served as the CEO and Chairman of Demandware, a provider of cloud commerce solutions. He led Demandware’s highly successful IPO in 2012, and the acquisition by Salesforce in 2016. Prior to Demandware, Tom held several CEO positions at Lattice Engines, ProfitLogic, and Torrent Systems, Inc.

Xavier Lazarus co-founded Elaia Partners in 2003, after having started several other businesses. He therefore brings a founder’s as well as an investor’s perspective to the table. Besides Mirakl, Xavier sits on the boards of Adomik, Criteo, and Tinyclues, among others.

Alexandre Margoline is a Partner and Head of Paris at Permira. He has extensive experience in Healthcare, Consumer and Technology. Alexandre has worked on a number of transactions including Althea, Corin, Creganna, eDreams Odigeo, Exclusive Group, I-MED, Mirakl, NDS, Hana and Vacanceselect. Prior to joining Permira, Alexandre worked at Goldman Sachs Capital Partners (PIA) in London, focusing on Private Equity transactions largely in the telecom and media industries.