Board of Directors

Bjørkavåg is former CEO of Comma Dataservice, Managing Director of Telenor Plus and Country Manager of Compaq Computers.Bjørkavåg has since year 2000 been CEO of NHST Media Group - owner of among others Dagens Næringsliv, a leading financial newspaper seated in Oslo.

He was previously with Geocapital Partners, a TMT-focuwsed growth equity investor, where, as general partner, he founded its European business and, prior to that, was head of Barclays Private Equity’s IT and telecoms team. He started his career at 3i plc.

Humphries' investment experience has focused on the TMT sector. His lead investments have included Visma, IRIS Software & CS Group plc, Rolfe & Nolan, Geneva Technology and NextGenTel. He co-led investments in Addison Software and SiTel Semiconductor. He was also involved in the flotations of Autologic plc and of Stepstone.com.

Humphries holds a First Class degree in Electronic Engineering and was an IEEE and National Engineering Council Scholar.

Before GE, Dekker worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was part of the investment banking division focused on financial institution clients. He started his career at ABN AMRO in the corporate finance department.

As a member of Hg’s portfolio management team, Dekker is a director of Epyx Ltd, Visma AS and Stepstone Solutions Ltd. Dekker holds a degree in finance from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and an MBA from INSEAD. He is a native Dutch speaker and is fluent in English, German and French.

Prior to joining KKR, Szeszkowski was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in London in the Investment Banking Division where he was engaged in merger advisory and execution of financing transactions for TMT clients.

Prior to that, Szeszkowski was a Principal at Orange Ventures in London, Boston and San Francisco where he made venture capital investments in the TMT sector. He was also a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.

Szeszkowski holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Chen is a member of the Technology industry team and serves on the boards of Kodak and Accel-KKR.

Prior to joining KKR, Chen was a Managing Director with Fox Paine & Company focusing on management buyouts including ACMI Corporation, where he also served as CEO. Before joining Fox Paine, he was Chief Financial Officer and Co-Founder of Jamcracker, Inc., a software-as-a-service solutions company.

Prior to completing his M.B.A, Chen was employed by KKR and Goldman, Sachs & Co.  He holds a B.S., cum laude, from The Wharton School, a B.S.E., cum laude, from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Prior to joining KKR & Co., Garaïalde was a partner at Carlyle, in charge of Europe Venture Partners Fund. From 1982 to 2000, Garaïalde worked at the Boston Consulting Group where he was the Managing Partner in charge of Belgium (1992-1995), then in charge of France and Belgium (1995-2000). Between 1979 and 1981, he held various positions at Esso France.

Garaïalde also serves as Chairman of PagesJaunes Group, Member of the Supervisory Board of Tarkett and a Director on the boards of Nexans, Société d’Investissement Familiale (SIF), Legrand, Médiannuaire Holding and Visma. Garaïalde received his MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau) and is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

Prior to joining KKR, de Joussineau spent four years at J.P. Morgan in London in the Investment Banking Division where he was engaged in Mergers and Acquisitions advisory and Leveraged Finance transactions. de Joussineau holds a M.Sc. from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) in Paris, France.