65 Equity Partners

Michel Paris

Michel Paris is 65 Equity Partners’ Senior Adviser for France.

Prior to that he worked in private equity with PAI since 1984, where he was Chief Executive Officer since 2015. He was also Chief Investment Officer of the Firm between 2009 and 2016.

He benefits from almost 30 years of experience with the firm, where he has been involved in a large number of transactions including Sogeres, Bouygues Telecom, Atos, Equant, Elior, Frans Bonhomme, Kiloutou, Nuance, Swissport, Elis, Vivarte, Saur, Coin, Kwik Fit, Cortefiel, Monier, Xella and EMG. He started his career at Valeo where he spent two years.

Michel graduated in engineering from Ecole Centrale Lyon in 1980 and in Business from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Reims in 1982. He is fluent in French and English.

Victor Massiah

Victor Massiah is 65 Equity Partners’ Senior Adviser for Italy.

He is concurrently Board Member of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala and lecturer of Banking Management at Università Cattolica in Milan.

Victor has a longstanding experience in the Italian banking sector having served as CEO & General Manager of UBI Banca between 2007 and 2020. Prior to that he worked for Banca Lombarda as General Manager and Banca Intesa as CEO of Intesa E-Lab and Deputy General Manager. Victor started his career as a consultant at Arthur Andersen and McKinsey & Co.

Victor Massiah holds a degree in International Economics from La Sapienza University of Rome.

Katherine Lin

Katherine is an Associate at 65 Equity Partners, based in Singapore.

She joined 65 Equity Partners from HSBC Hong Kong, where she was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Leveraged and Acquisition Finance team. There, she advised and worked with sponsor clients on Leveraged Buyout transactions across Asia Pacific.

Katherine holds a Master in Financial Analysis from London Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Corporate Finance) (Highest Distinction) from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Karan Saraf

Karan joined 65 Equity Partners from CPP Investments in Hong Kong, with sector focus in technology, services, manufacturing, consumer, financials, and healthcare. Having completed close to 25 private and public investments with a key focus on cross-border transactions, Karan has 20 years of financial services experience having started his career at Credit Suisse in New York before spending several years in the private equity team at KKR.

Karan led 65 Equity Partners’ investments in Tuya, TD Connex and AvePoint. He is also currently or has previously been engaged at the boards of TD Connex, Novo Tellus, Tower Capital Asia, Acko Insurance, Virtusa, Atria Convergence Technologies, Dalmia Cement, amongst others.

Karan holds a Bachelor of Science from Leonard N. Stern School of Business.