The Penton Partners team together has more than 50 years professional investment experience and has been working as a private equity team in Poland for 15 years.

Before forming Penton Partners in 2002, backed by a group of institutional investors, they were on the management team of then Barclays joint venture, Trinity Management, running the Third National Investment Fund (NIF III) of the Polish mass privatization program.

As a team, they have been involved with over 40 private equity transactions and privatizations successfully investing a total of over USD 100 million.

Penton Partners currently manages three private equity funds: Poland Recovery Management Fund, Poland Central and Eastern European Opportunity Fund and Poland Central European Selected Opportunities Fund. These funds are nearing full investment. Penton will be raising a fourth fund from 2010.