PRIVATE EQUITY
SMART INVESTING
FAMOUS
FOR...
OUR TEAM
The Famous Capital team is made up
of Private Equity Professionals, Market Visionaries and Successful Entrepreneurs.
The collective skill sets combined allow us
to identify attractive growth investments
with capable and aligned management.
OUR REACH
Our model for investment success
emanates from a team that has both a
deep understanding of the chosen industry as well as a successful investment track record extending over a few decades. Not only do we buy businesses to build them,
but we seek to make a positive difference
to the people, the environment, the communities and society as a whole.
Twenty years of successful Private Equity investing across a broad range of industries.
Forty-Four successful investments in
ten countries.
OUR RECORD
VALUE ADD
Our value-add philosophy entails active participation in investee companies. The
degree of involvement is tailored to the
size, performance and maturity of the portfolio company, along with the skills
and experience of the portfolio company’s management team.
ABOUT US
Famous Capital is a Private Equity Investment fund with a
geographical investment strategy across the USA and Europe.
With over forty years of successful Private Equity Investment experience and
above-average IRRs, our industry investment focus for this new and exciting fund,
domiciled in the USA, is in the ICT space. We concentrate on High-Tech, Identity
Management, Fintech, Digital Tech, Data Security, Safety, Security and Biometric Solutions.
The Famous Capital investment strategy is centred around value-investing
in businesses that result in value creation for investors, partners and investees.
With an eye for businesses in the focused tech solution fields, we are able to invest in businesses that leverage advanced intellectual property poised for growth and expansion.
Our deep understanding of technology together with our team's industry experience
allows us to identify and structure investments for growth by providing capital and
strategic support to experienced management teams. We achieve above-average
returns by investing in growth opportunities, implement best practices in portfolio
companies and make accretive acquisitions to accelerate earnings and revenue
to create long term intrinsic value and earning power.
OUR TEAM
COLIN REZEK
SENIOR PARTNER
Colin is the Co-Founder
and Senior Partner of
Famous Capital as well as
the founder and executive chairman of Vantage Capital,
Africas leading Mezzanine
Private Equity Firm.
Colin has 20 years of unmatched experience and
a successful Private Equity Investment track record.
His access to top financial institutions, professional
heads of business and his
global network is key to deal
flow, co-investment and
exit strategy options.
WARREN LAHOUD
CO-FOUNDER
Warren is the Co-Founder
of Famous Capital.
Warren is a serial entrepreneur with an impressive business ownership and track record that involves being in partnership with and executing mergers and acquisitions with large listed enterprises.
He is known for being a visionary, achieving results, developing and executing strategy with a relentless
drive for success.
CHARLES LAXTON
CO-FOUNDER
Charlie is the Co-Founder
of Famous Capital.
Charlie has enjoyed a significant successful professional career and is a highly respected expert in the Hightech, Biometric Security industry.
Charlie has brushed shoulders with influential high ranking politicians and completed over
a dozen personal mergers, acquisitions and investments, making millionaires out of the large numbers of professionals that followed him.
INVESTMENT STRATEGY
To invest in niche tech companies that exhibit advanced intellectual property poised for growth and expansion. This includes implementing sound practices in portfolio companies and executing strategic accretive acquisitions to accelerate earnings and revenue.
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