Victoria Peddie Bell

Managing Director at Peddie Bell Sarl

Speaker

Victoria Peddie Bell is a former private equity-backed CFO, board adviser and Audit Committee Chair with extensive experience working with management teams and investors through transformation, M&A and exit.

She was Group CFO of Unilabs, where she partnered with the board and shareholders through a €5bn exit, and has held senior finance leadership roles across Advent, Apax, Bain Capital, Carlyle and KKR portfolio companies. Her private equity experience also includes serving on a portfolio company Advisory Committee and chairing its Audit Committee.

Victoria brings both an executive and advisory perspective to the challenges of private equity ownership, with experience spanning finance transformation, buy-and-build, portfolio performance, enterprise risk and the relationship between management teams, boards and investors.

In 2026, she rowed 2,800 miles unsupported from California to Hawaii as part of a three-woman crew, winning the Women’s Class of the World’s Toughest Row Pacific — an experience that further shaped her perspective on leadership, resilience and team performance under pressure.