Guy Semmens

Managing Partner at Gyrus Capital

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Guy Semmens is co-founder and managing partner of Gyrus Capital, a Geneva based investment firm focussed on transformational investments in healthcare and services. Founded in 2018, Gyrus seeks to make two to three investments per year in market leading businesses with values between €50 and €500m, often in complex transactions such as carve outs and succession transitions. Investments include CorCym (heart value carve out from LivaNova), Essential Pharma, Neo Medical (surgical spine), LRE Medical (point of care diagnostics CDMO),and Consulcesi (services to healthcare professionals) on the healthcare side; and DuPont Sustainable Solutions (now dss+, a carve out of DuPont’s occupational health, risk and safety business), Intellerra (a carve out from PWC of their public administration consulting business), Katalist (digital software implementation for pharmacy and food chains, and ACBC (sustainability for textiles and fashion) in services.

Guy has 30 years’ experience in complex private investments having previously been managing partner of Argos Soditic. Prior to that, Guy was a solicitor with Clifford Chance, the international law firm, where he was part of the firm's management buy-out group.