Team
Michael Prahl
Michael is a partner with New Industrial Partners. Michael has over 20 years investment experience mainly in international buyouts. After starting in venture capital during the dotcom boom he spent nearly a decade with Apax Partners, a global private equity firm, working on a number of high-profile deals in Europe and the US. He subsequently moved to Asia to help establish the firm’s Asian operations. He has completed multiple Asia centric investments in various partnerships over the last years.
The first Executive Director of INSEAD’s PE Centre, he continues teaching the MBA Leveraged Buyout elective at the school. He is the co-author of the standard textbook "Mastering Private Equity" (Wiley, 2017). He serves on the education committee of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association.
MSc Business Administration, HHL Leipzig
Peter Wittmann
Peter is a partner with New Industrial Partners. Peter has more than 25 years experience in direct investments and supply chain management.
Prior to establishing New Industrial Partners, Peter worked for more than 15 years on Asian-led cross-border acquisitions within the industrial technology sector. He has played a pivotal role in a number of successful and complex investments, including Preciseley Microtechnology Corp (exited to Hankook Tyre & Technology), Telit's Automotive Communications Business, Brookstone (exited to SanPower Group), and Exocad (exited to Carlyle). Peter started his career in supply chain management with BMW Group in Germany, before he went on to business school.
Diplom Informatiker, TU München