Speakers

He is CEO of Alteri Investors, an operationally driven special situations investor, focused exclusively on the European retail sector.  It invests in retailers with sales of between €100m to €3bn, targeting a broad range of opportunities from performing businesses facing structural or stakeholder issues to companies which require fundamental financial and operational transformation.

Alteri is a joint venture between its management and leading alternative investment management firm Apollo Global Management, LLC.Since launching at the end of 2014, Alteri has developed an impressive track record with particular success in Germany including including CBR Fashion, one of Germany’s leading womenswear businesses, and leading multi-channel retailer Versandhaus Walz, which has successfully undergone a comprehensive turnaround.   Other investments have included a range of equity, debt and direct lending transactions across multiple retail sectors and Western European geographies, notably in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the UK.

Prior to establishing Alteri Investors, Gavin was CEO of GA Europe, an independent Chief Restructuring Officer for retail and consumer businesses, and Partner/Head of Retail at Ernst & Young UK. He originally trained as a chartered accountant before working in retail operations at Dixons and then moving into retail consulting.