University of York alumni Owen Trotter has been a professional investor for over 30 years in the UK, Europe and North America.
For the last 15 years he has run his own investment company Key Capital Partners (KCP) which has invested approximately £200 million into 26 different businesses.
Key Capital Partners is one of the most experienced private equity teams in the UK and the leading player in the smaller buy-out market.
Owen's journey
Having graduated in Economics from the University of York in 1992, Owen Trotter trained as a Chartered Accountant in London. He got his first private equity job in 1998 and worked in the UK, Germany and Canada over the next nine years.
“I thought that was it. I was settled in Canada and my career was successfully on track. Then, someone I had worked with 10 years previously, rang and asked if I wanted to set up our own private equity firm. We identified a third person to work with and that was the beginning of Key Capital Partners. That phone call in 2006 was the catalyst that saw me leaving my plum job at the biggest bank in Canada for an empty serviced office in Cambridge.”
By co-owning his own firm, it’s given Owen the opportunity to do Private Equity the way he believes it should be done.
"Being part of a small team means that I get involved in all areas of the business including making investments, sitting on company boards, speaking to our investors and managing our own business. It’s exciting to work in such a fast-moving environment with people I respect and trust.