Oliver Gardey

Head of Private Equity Fund Investments at ICG

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Oliver joined ICG in 2019 as Head of Private Equity Fund Investments. He is based in London, from where he leads the ICG Enterprise Trust investment teams and co-leads the LP Secondaries teams across London and New York.

Oliver was a partner at Pomona Capital for a decade before joining ICG. At Pomona, he was a member of the global investment committee.

Prior to this, he was partner and an investment committee member at Adams Street, Rothschild / Five Arrows Capital and J.H. Whitney & Co. respectively. Oliver was previously the CEO of Inflight Service Corp., a leading global aircraft galley equipment manufacturer, and instrumental in the buyout, the operational turnaround and the successful exit of the business.

Oliver graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.