Raymond Svider, '89

Raymond Svider is a Partner, Chairman of BC Partners and Chairman of its Executive Committee. He joined BC Partners in Paris in 1992 before moving to the London office in 2000 and relocated to New York in 2008. Previously, Mr. Svider worked in investment banking at Wasserstein Perella in New York and Paris, and at the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago. Mr. Svider has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MSc in engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, and a degree in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications. Mr. Svider is currently Executive Chairman of PetSmart, Chairman of the Board of Chewy, Inc. (NYSE “CHWY”), Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Aenova Group, Chairman of the Boards of Valtech, Keter Group Holding and Madison Logic. He also serves on the boards of GFL Environmental (NYSE/TSX “GFL”), Altice USA (NYSE “ATUS”), Navex Global, Presidio, GardaWorld, and EAB. Mr. Svider additionally serves on the Boards of the Mount Sinai Children’s Center Foundation in New York, the Polsky Center Private Equity Council at the University of Chicago and is a Council Member on the Council on Chicago Booth.