The Interview Each month, Finance Monthly brings you ‘The Interview’

The Interview is specifically designed to bring you detailed insights into recently finalised deals, straight from those at the centre of their developments.

This month we speak with:

Adam Brown: CFO of Access Group, a leading author of integrated business management software with a portfolio that spans solutions for ERP, finance, HR, Payroll, warehousing, business intelligence, automation and manufacturing.

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Omer Rehman & Harald Pöttinger: Partners at Alpine Equity, a Private Equity company for established SMEs that supports companies throughout their lifecycle with equity and know-how.

Ram Ottapathu: CEO of Choppies Enterprises Limited, the leading grocery retailer in Botswana with fast- growing operations in South Africa and Zimbabwe that over the past five years has been transformed from a local grocery retailer to a regionally renowned retail group which recently entered a new stage of strategic development.

Marty Beard: Chairman & CEO of LiveOps Inc. the global leader in cloud contact centre and customer service solutions, that recently announced its acquisition of UserEvents, Inc. and its flagship product CxEngage, a contextual routing engine that can aggregate and process activities on any social, web, mobile, email, SMS, web chat or voice channel in real time.

Phil Hollingdale: Founder & CEO of Staffcare, an SaaS provider specialising in software and support that powers ‘Flexible Benefits’ and ‘Auto Enrolment’ solutions to many of the UK’s largest Employee Benefit Consultants.

Brad Nordholm: CEO of Starwood Energy Group, a private equity investment firm which recently closed its second energy infrastructure fund and has plans to continue its focus on value-add opportunities in power generation and transmission.

Casper Heijsteeg: Senior Partner at Wermuth Asset Management an investment advisor committed to sustainable investments that recently announced a fourth consecutive investment of €6m, from the Green Gateway Fund LP, in Primekss, a technologically advanced concrete specialist.

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