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Master Class Paris "Entrepreneurship through Acquisition: The fastest growing trend in Finance""
L'Intercontinental Paris le Grand
2 Rue Scribe, Paris 75009, France
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Greetings from IE,
We are thrilled to invite you to our upcoming Master class entitled "Entrepreneurship through Acquisition: The fastest growing trend in Finance" delivered by Newton Campos on the 03rd of December at 18h30 in Paris at L'Intercontinental Paris le Grand.
"Master Class description"
In this dynamic and highly interactive session, Prof. Newton M. Campos, PhD, leads participants on a global journey to uncover why Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (EtA) is rapidly gaining traction around the world.
With aging business owners, Private Equity capital in search of new investments, and entrepreneurial talent seeking safer bets than startups, this model is reshaping the future of finance and entrepreneurship.
Through real-time engagement and collective discovery, the audience helps map the forces fueling the rise of Search Funds: a proven path to owning and scaling small and medium businesses. Ideal for students, professionals, investors and anyone curious about the latest trends in Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments
"Agenda"
18h30 - 19h00 : Welcoming attendees
19h00 - 20h00 : Master Class
20h30 - 21h30 : Networking drink
We are looking forward to this exciting event !
Warm regards,
IE University - France Office
France@ie.edu
Dress Business Casual
Speakers
Newton M. Campos
Professor & Researcher
IE university
https://www.linkedin.com/in/newtoncampos/?originalSubdomain=es
Prof. Dr. Newton M. Campos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Newton Equity Partners, a firm at the forefront of global Search Fund investments. With over 20 years of experience in Small Business Entrepreneurship, Private Equity, and Venture Capital, Newton blends a robust academic foundation, including a PhD in Entrepreneurship and roles teaching and researching at top global business schools with extensive hands-on investment expertise.
Under Newton’s leadership, Newton Equity Partners earned authorization from Spain’s Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) to manage alternative investment vehicles. The firm partners with Family Offices, institutional and individual investors to identify, acquire, and scale high-potential SMEs along with Search Fund entrepreneurs and CEOs, focusing on opportunities aligned with emerging geopolitical, demographic, and technological trends.
Prior to founding Newton Equity Partners, Newton achieved remarkable success with his private investments, including 18 Search Fund investments and 5 acquisitions across five continents since 2016, achieving an impressive 50% IRR, a foundation that now drives the team's investment strategy.
Newton’s vision is to position Newton Equity Partners as the most trusted name in sustainable SME investment, targeting hundreds high-potential SMEs worldwide while fostering meaningful, lasting impacts for industries and communities around the world. With B Corp certification, a proven track record, and strong ties to top business schools and the Search Fund ecosystem, Newton Equity Partners offers a unique blend of financial performance, global reach, and sustainable impact.
Fernando Cortinas
Associate Professor at IE Business School
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-corti%C3%B1as-432209/
Fernando Cortiñas (Buenos Aires, 1962) is an Argentine-Spanish professional with more than 35 years of international work experience in leading multinationals and as a professor in leading academic institutions in Europe and America.
He graduated with honors and various awards as a Bachelor of Business Administration and Public Accountant from the Universidad Católica Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1986), and obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School (Boston, 1992).
His professional career has had a double journey, corporate and academic.
At a corporate level, Fernando's career has been focused mainly on the field of marketing, sales and international business development, which led him to live in Germany, the United States and Spain, working for companies such as Deutsche Babcock, McKinsey, KSB- Itur, Televisión Española and the Telefónica group, where he held managerial and executive positions in several group companies.
With a strong teaching vocation, at an academic level he has developed an international career spanning more than three decades, with a focus on Marketing and International Business, mainly at the IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), where in 2020 he was awarded the prize for “Best Professor in Masters Programs”.
He is also a visiting professor at other distinguished institutions such as the University of Porto (Oporto, Portugal), Porto Business School (Oporto, Portugal), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago), and Universidad Católica Argentina (Buenos Aires).
He has courses on Coursera, with more than 35,000 students, he practices journalism as a hobby in various written and radio media in Spain and the Americas and develops activities as a speaker and consultant for different companies.
Polyglot (in addition to being bilingual in Spanish and English, he speaks German, Portuguese and Italian), a tireless reader and traveler, he lives between Madrid and Buenos Aires, and has visited more than a hundred countries around the world.
Specialist in the Silk Road, he began to give conferences on the subject in 2014, and has visited almost all the countries that comprise it several times over the last eight years.
Fernando is separated and has three children.