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Today’s most successful Private Equity firms are experts at building better businesses faster.

HBR finds that PE-owned companies outperform peers in terms of financial returns and transformative operational improvements. The contrast is most starkly seen in the average 8-12% productivity gains companies bought by PE firms achieve in their first two years vs 2-4% for public companies.

The methodologies used have been successful across a huge variety of PE portfolio companies disproving the once held belief that much of what PE does won't work in other business contexts.

Join Tim Pointer, Operating Partner - Human Capital at Three Hills, an established asset management platform providing bespoke capital solutions across Europe and North America, as he delineates the inner workings of how PE creates value and efficiency at pace and scale.

CHROs/CPOs and executives interested, experienced in or soon to be in the world of Private Equity should attend for insight on:

- The due diligence process and continuous re-evaluation
- Board/founder alignment
- The 100 day value creation plan. "How do we improve the asset at pace?"
- The Value Creation Cycle & transformation
- Readying for exit

Tim is Operating Partner – Human Capital at Three Hills, the private market investment firm that manages €3.3 billion in assets. Tim leads People Strategy across their portfolio of 35+ businesses and 23,000 employees in Western Europe and North America.

Tim is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, and he has lived and worked in EMEA, the US and Asia-Pacific. He has held global Chief People Officer roles in a breadth of sectors including brand & talent (Creative Artists Agency); fashion & sports (Pentland, Diesel); health (Nelsons); technology (Sprint; Currys); and beverage (Beam Suntory).

Tim leads on the full scope of people topics including organisational development, business design, talent & learning, remuneration, governance, performance metrics, employee relations, and culture. Tim is an alumnus of the Hult Ashridge International Business School, University of York, Lancaster University and London Business School. He founded the Business Culture Awards & Community in 2015 and hosts the ‘Powered by People’ podcast, which launches Season 2 in September.

In 2025, Tim was recognised by the readers of HR Magazine as the UK’s No. 1 most influential HR practitioner.