Mark Bishop
Founding Partner, The Management Buy-Out Centre
Mark Bishop is co-founder of The Management Buy-Out Centre LLP, a boutique advisory firm
that enables management teams achieve buy-outs and buy-ins and access growth capital by
introducing them to private equity backers and providing related advice. He has written a
book about the PE industry entitled ‘The Future of Private Equity: Beyond the Mega BuyOuts’ (Palgrave Macmillan, Autumn 2012) containing exclusive, one-on-one interviews with
the founders and leaders of some of the world’s most innovative and successful buy-out
firms. Previously, Mark has worked in corporate finance and consultancy in the media sector
and formed part of the team that acquired what was then the UK’s largest-ever leveraged
buy-out, the acquisition of IPC Media Limited, in the late 1990s. He is a participant on the
2011-12 Part-Time Executive MBA programme at Cranfield School of Management.
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