18 Facts About Stephen Peel

Stephen Mark Peel was born on 29 December 1965 and is a British businessman, private equity investor and Olympic athlete.

Stephen Peel has a degree in land economy from Downing College, Cambridge in 1987 and is currently a Wilkins Fellow.

Stephen Peel went on to row in the Blue Boat for the three years of his undergraduate degree while studying at the University of Cambridge.

Stephen Peel served as Cambridge University Boat Club President in 1987.

Stephen Peel rowed in the Great Britain national team from 1985 to 1988.

Stephen Peel represented Great Britain in coxless fours rowing at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

Stephen Peel represented England and won a silver medal in the eight, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Stephen Peel is the founder of the Infinity Boat Club in Teesside, which was created to help deliver a competitive rowing program to less privileged school children in the area.

Stephen Peel is part of a group of founding donors that assisted with the establishment of The Cambridge University Boat Club Rowing Charitable Fund.

Stephen Peel worked at Goldman Sachs from 1989, founded TPG's European operations in 1997, ran their Russian and Eastern European operations from 2006 and co-headed the Asia operations from 2009 to 2013.

From 2016 to 2017, Stephen Peel served as a visiting fellow of practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.

Stephen Peel is on the advisory council of the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University.

Stephen Peel is on the Advisory Board of the Institute for State Effectiveness, which is works on pathways for economic development, peace, and stability within various countries and across different regions in the world.

Until 2014, Stephen Peel was a senior partner at the global private equity firm TPG Capital.

In 2016, Stephen Peel co-founded a new private equity firm, Novalpina Capital, which focused on control-orientated equity investments in European middle market businesses.

Stephen Peel stepped down as a non-executive director at the NGO, Global Witness.

Stephen Peel is the founder of SMP Policy Innovation Ltd, a not-for-profit policy organisation aiming to promote, design and assist government policy.

Stephen Peel is married to Yana Peel, who is a businesswoman, philanthropist and arts patron, most recently global head of arts and culture at Chanel, and they have two children.