Dipan Patel

Dipan is Partner and Global Head of the Consumer team at Permira where he serves on the Executive Committee and the Investment Committee. Dipan worked in the Technology team in London from 2009-2012 and then Menlo Park from 2012-2018. He now focuses on opportunities in the Consumer sector, working previously on a number of software and consumer Internet investments including Ancestry, Axiom, Informatica, LegalZoom, Renaissance Learning and The Knot Worldwide. He is currently a Non-Executive Director at Axiom, Boats Group, Catawiki, LegalZoom and The Knot Worldwide.

Prior to joining Permira, Dipan worked for Gores Group, a special situations private equity fund and earlier at Lehman Brothers. Dipan holds a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, England.