Founded in 1992 as continental Europe’s first independent private equity placement agent, to date Triago has raised more than 130 funds and transferred more than 800 secondary positions. Today, Triago enjoys a presence on six continents operating out of their offices in New York, Paris and recently Dubai, which was inaugurated in 2007. Executive sat down with chairman and CEO Antoine Dréan and managing director Middle East Jean Aboumrad to get an insider’s view on what’s happening in the private equity market in the region and around the world. E Are private equity (PE) firms having difficulty finding investors, given current financial conditions, and is it becoming harder to find investors for venture capital or growth capital? Dréan — Yes, in big letters, even though it is not mission impossible. There are about 1,000 active investors in this asset class worldwide and probably two-thirds of them are on the sidelines
