August Equity LLP (“August Equity”) is pleased to announce that Mehul Patel and Ranji Goodwin have joined the firm to further strengthen its investment team.
Mehul, who joins as an associate, joined August Equity from PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance where he was an assistant director with responsibility for executing deals and business development in the business services sector.
Previously Ranji worked at BNP Paribas where she held various roles culminating as a portfolio manager in the Emerging Markets Group of BNP Paribas Asset Management Group. Prior to this Ranji was a financial accountant at The Heritable and a group financial accountant for Schroders.
Mehul will be responsible for originating and executing deals across August Equity’s four sectors – Healthcare, Technology & Media, Industrial Products and Business Services. Ranji will be responsible for fund and portfolio company performance reporting.
Commenting on the appointments, Sam Watkinson, partner, said: “The new appointments ensure we are well positioned to build our business for the future.”