Sven Kado
Senior Advisor

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Sven A. Kado is a Senior Advisor to Cogent Partners Europe.

Prior to his present position as Chairman Germany of Marsh & McLennan which he holds since 2000, Sven A. Kado spent more than 20 years in board positions of German industry: Nixdorf Computer AG (until then Germany´s largest ever IPO, functional responsibility for controlling, finance, taxation, purchasing and real estate), Dyckerhoff AG (initiation and conclusion of acquisitions of cement companies in Poland, the Czech Republic and Luxembourg), Heimbach (general management responsibility for this leading “paper machine clothing” producer).

Prior to these, he was with Orion Bank in London and a predecessor of KPMG in Cologne.

Mr. Kado has a wide experience as a non-executive board member in and advisor to both publicly quoted as well as private companies, financial institutions, academia, non-profit organizations and in the area of private equity investments.

Mr. Kado holds a degree from the University of Cologne and an MBA with “high distinction” from INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish with working knowledge of Portuguese and Russian.