CAPTARON - Trust and Growth

Captaron GmbH

Strong Track record

Captaron GmbH

Over 300 years of experience in the team

Impactful Acquisitions

About us

Welcome to CAPTARON, an esteemed investment consortium dedicated to driving impactful acquisitions. Our impressive track record speaks for itself, with several successful transactions, valued at tens of Billion GBP, attributed to our experienced team members. With over 300 years of collective professional experience in acquisitions, including management, IPOs, turnarounds, business development, marketing, product development, sales and more, we operate across various industries, with a particular focus on making a meaningful difference in the healthcare sector.

At CAPTARON, we believe in win-win-win situations. We have learned that the best outcome is achieved when all the parties involved benefit from shared success. This philosophy guides every decision we make and forms the foundation of our approach.

Trust and sustainability are the pillars of our business relationships. In the realm of home care, supported living and care home, our mission is to positively impact the lives of those we serve, nurturing improved health and an enhanced quality of life. We empower individuals and promote their overall well-being. This commitment extends not only to our clients and patients in the healthcare sector but also to the well-being of our dedicated staff and management team, which holds equal importance for us.

We prefer to collaborate with existing management teams of acquired companies whenever possible. We believe that their expertise and insights are valuable in ensuring long-term success. Our directors provide comprehensive support in various areas, including management, leadership, marketing, business expansion and implementing constructive supportive digital tools. By incorporating diverse perspectives, we make significant contributions to building better companies.

Whether you have a small, medium, or large business/transaction in mind and want to sell the majority or 100% of your Company, CAPTARON is equipped to swiftly and efficiently acquire businesses of any size. We possess sufficient resources and expertise, enabling us to navigate the complexities of the acquisition process with ease.

Currently, we are actively seeking investment opportunities, particularly in the home care, care home and specialised care sectors. Our capabilities extend beyond pure acquisition, as we are prepared to support further growth initiatives and adeptly manage successful restructuring in collaboration with you.  

Our team in UK

Arvind Madan

Chairman
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Arvind Madan

Mark Adams

(Board Member)
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Mark Adams

Robert Maier

Chairman
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Robert Maier

Andreas Nendza

Board Member
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Andreas Nendza

Gary Lindsy

Board Member
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Gary Lindsy

David Kilgour

Board Member
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David Kilgour

Guy Jackson

Board Member
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Guy Jackson

Robert Johnstone

Board Member
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Robert Johnstone

Tarishi Suhalka

Founder
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Tarishi Suhalka

Our guiding principles

our actions are always guided by these six core principles

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Integrity and Trust

We prioritize honesty, transparency and ethical conduct in all our business dealings, building trust and fostering long-term relationships with our partners.

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Collaborative Partnership

We believe in collaborative partnerships, actively engaging with management teams, employees and other stakeholders to support a culture of teamwork, mutual respect and shared success.

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Social Responsibility and Sustainability

We believe in collaborative partnerships, actively engaging with management teams, employees and other stakeholders to support a culture of teamwork, mutual respect and shared success.

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Excellence & Continous Improvement

We strive for excellence in everything we do, continuously improving our processes, operations and performance to exceed expectations and deliver superior results.

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Transparency

Our word counts. At the core of our DNA is a transparent and honest approach to all parties involved. This applies to the course of the Transaction as well as to the ownership.

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Value Creation

We are committed to creating sustainable value for all stakeholders by leveraging our expertise, experience and resources to drive growth, innovation and profitability.

Mission & Vision

Making impactful acquisitions within the care sector, setting new standards of excellence and innovation, ensuring that every individual receives exceptional care and support. Our commitment is to provide extraordinary services that consistently exceed expectations, making a lasting impact on the lives of those we serve.

Sell with Confidence to CAPTARON

Are you a business owner looking to take the next step? Whether you’re considering a partial sale, selling the majority of your company, or exploring a 100% sale, CAPTARON is ready to discuss the possibilities. We are passionate about acquiring businesses and working closely with business owners to achieve their goals. As an investment consortium, we offer a unique proposition to sellers, providing a straightforward and efficient process. By selling your business to CAPTARON, you can benefit from our financial strength, industry expertise, and commitment to long-term success and sustainability. We understand that selling your business is a significant milestone, and we strive to make the experience as smooth and rewarding as possible. Trust CAPTARON as your acquirer of choice, and let’s embark on this journey together. Contact us today to start the conversation.  

Considering a Partial Sale of the Company? Want to Sell the Majority?

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Considering a 100% Sale?

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Contact us

CAPTARON GmbH
Schellingstr. 109 a
80798 Munich
Germany

Telephone: 020 3951 1498

Email: info@captaron.com

Appointments by arrangement

Arvind Madan
(Chairmam)

Arvind has been a practising GP for 28 years working in both general practice and urgent care settings. He is one of the founding partners of the Hurley Group and eConsult, and as well as advising several healthcare companies, he continues to also work as a frontline clinician. In 2006, he became the CEO of the Hurley Group and began taking over a failing NHS GP practices and setting up new practices across London. The Group now comprises 12 practices and 2 urgent care centres with over 450 staff caring for over 125,000 registered patients. The Hurley Group also runs the National Practitioner Health Programme which is the largest service caring for clinician’s mental health anywhere in the world and has cared for over 35,000 clinicians over the last decade. During Covid the Hurley also set up a national service for patients with gambling addiction. He also led the development of technology that allows patients to consult their own GP practice team online for any symptom or condition. Today this technology known as eConsult is available to over 20 million patients in 2,000 GP practices in the UK. It has undertaken over 45M consultations to date. This model of digital triage is now also available in 15 hospital emergency departments and outpatients. He has recently incorporated an AI Navigator tool which recommends the right management for each patient’s concern. From 2015 to 2018 Arvind was the National Director of Primary Care and National Deputy Medical Director for the NHS in England. In these roles he led on developing and implementing the 5-year strategy for the country, reporting directly to the Secretary of State for Health and the Chief Executive of NHS England.

Mark Adams
(Chairman)

Mark has over 40 years of experience in Health Insurance and Clinical Operations. He began his career in Insurance Broking, Dental Capitation, and Health Insurance, before transitioning to Hospital and Clinic management in the UK, America, and the Middle East. Mark has run organizations such as AXA Healthcare, Denplan, Virgin Healthcare, Gulf Healthcare, and Anglo Arabian Healthcare. Currently, Mark serves on the Boards of John Hopkins Aramco Healthcare and Tibbayah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is also the Chair of Renovo Healthcare, a UK Hospital Group. Mark has previously sat on the Board of the NMC Hospitals, the British Quality Foundation, the London Board of the NSPCC, and has run the leading Social Care Charity Community Integrated Care. Additionally, he advised Prudential on entering the Health Insurance market and sat on the Board of PruHealth (Vitality Healthcare) during the launch of this market challenger. He recently spent five years running the large UK Charity ‘Community Integrated Care’ where he was twice voted Healthcare Leader of the Year in the Charitable sector.

Robert Maier
(Chairman & Founder)

Robert Maier is an experienced Chief Executive Officer, Entrepreneur, Founder and Investor with a history of decades working in various industries. He has advised on, negotiated and/or closed transactions himself and/or is presently working on a portfolio size of in total several Billion Euros.

He is Managing Director and CEO of several project companies (SPV's) and holdings, investment vehicles, Chairman of international investment-boards and active companies, seeking acquisitions, projects and project development.

Amongst others Mr. Maier is skilled in Debt & Equity, Financing, Management, Physics and Sustainability. He is a strong business development professional with a degree in physics. Mr. Maier being an international M&A specialist is presently focussed on sustainability, national and international M&A, financial transactions, technology and new developments in various industries.

Amongst other transactions that Mr. Maier did, here are a few recently acquired projects/active companies, which were fully financed on a 100% private equity basis : Obermarkt Passage Minden - www.aim-c.de (50 Million Euros was already the mortgage on the property with 32,000 sqm in the center of Minden)

Interspa Gruppe - www.interspa-gruppe.de & www.wonnemar.de (Book Value over 50 Million Euros) Where he acquired Interspa Gruppe - Leisure spa and Fun waterparks including Hotels in below Cities. Wismar - www.wonnemar-resorts.de/wismar/ Sonthofen - www.wonnemar.de/sonthofen/ Bad Liebenwerda - www.wonnemar.de/bad-liebenwerda/ Backnang - www.wonnemar.de/backnang

Both the transactions were done fully on his own equity basis, including several other projects with the portfolio size in Billions of Euros.

Andeas Nendza
(Board Member)

Andreas Nendza has over 35 years of professional experience in assurance and transaction advisory business services, which he obtained during his career with global international audit and advisory firms (Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young (EY)). He has worked on more than 250 transactions ranging from EUR 1 million to 2.5 billion enterprise value for share deals, respectively up to EUR 6 billion (post IPO market cap). He was a Partner in those firms from 1994 until his early retirement in 2017. Andreas Nendza led domestic and international audit engagements of different sizes, client legal forms and accounting frameworks (US-GAAP, HGB) as well as different industry sectors, including consultation in public offering projects.

Since 1996 Andreas Nendza had a leading role in the Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) line in Germany. From 2006 until 2008 he led as an Executive Board member the service line TAS for EY in the CIS, based in Moscow. Under his leadership this service line grew from 90 to 350 employees and was not only the most profitable but also the fastest growing business unit of EY in the CIS.

From late 2008 to June 2017 Andreas Nendza led the Quality & Risk Management function for the TAS service line in the entire EMEIA region. He was a member in several global and area leadership teams of EY. The global consultant team led by Andreas Nendza consisted of about 140 members in all five continents. In addition, Andreas Nendza headed the EY Russian Desk until June 2017 in the countries Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Since July 2017 Andreas Nendza works as an independent advisor on transactions and other projects. In addition, he serves as a non-executive board member / business angel in several companies or projects, predominantly in buy-and-build scenarios in different industries.

Andreas Nendza is a Diplom-Kaufmann, Wirtschaftsprüfer (CPA equivalent) and Steuerberater (tax advisor) as well as a trained foreign and wholesale trade merchant.

Gary Lindsy
(Board Member)

Gary spent his entire career of over 40 years in Banking in the City of London, before retiring in 2018, working for a number of UK and International Banks.

During the last 28 of his career in particular, Gary was involved in high value lending against property based assets where the primary support for the underlying debt was the assets’ cash flow.

During his 14 years at HSBC he was responsible for a portfolio of London based hotel assets valued at over £400m before transferring to the Project Finance team managing a portfolio of UK PFI and multi-geographic Power assets.

As Head of Project, UK at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg he grew the Project Finance portfolio from c.a.£200m to over £1bn as well as being responsible for managing the portfolio and liaising with the Head Office based credit team. He also had responsibility for a small portfolio of corporate and leverage finance assets.

From 2015 to 2018, at National Australia Bank, Gary headed a team managing a complex portfolio of over 100 UK and European assets across a range of assets classes, liaising both with the asset acquisition team and credit department and had responsible for assessing new business applications, preparing annual reviews and managing waiver requests.

Throughout his career he has dealt at a senior level with other banking industry professionals as well as negotiating with lawyers, accountants etc.

In 2013/4 Gary spent 15 months working with the Finance Conduct Authority as part of a team investigating the mis-selling of interest rate hedging products by a major UK Clearing Bank.

Gary’s long career gives him a strong understanding of the underlying needs of businesses and an ability to work consensually but with a critical eye with members of the executive and non-executive boards.

He is currently a non-executive director of a UK company seeking to acquire assets in the UK Care Home sector.

David Kilgour
Board Member

David is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales with over thirty years of experience in financial management and raising finance in the infrastructure and utilities sectors.

Formerly Group Chief Financial Officer of Driver Group plc, a listed dispute resolution and expert witness consultancy, David was responsible for all financial reporting, management and investor relations.

Previous roles have included Managing Director of a renewable business in AMEC plc, a multinational consultancy engineering and project management business, which involved the financing, construction and operations of two of the largest energy from waste facilities in the UK at the time.

David was Finance Director of United Utilities plc International and non-regulated division. Created by a combination of acquisitions and successful tenders to include operations across Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, value was realised by two successful IPOs of water utilities in Europe and Asia.

David has wide ranging experience across financial control, reporting and treasury management with emphasis on strong corporate governance and investor relation skills.
In addition, he has experience in the assessment of financial risk and due diligence review.

Guy Jackson
(Board Member)

Guy Jackson has been a corporate lawyer advising on M&A, private equity and capital market transactions for over 34 years. After a period training as a pilot in the Royal Fleet Air Arm in the UK Guy Jackson pursued a career in law and at university was awarded the year prize as best law student. He holds a degree in law and qualified as a solicitor at Eversheds, now a global top 10 law firm in 1988. He has spent much of his career as a partner and group head of the corporate practice at a top 20 law firm in the UK which in 2013 merged with DWF plc, a global law firm with 31 offices across the world.

During his career Guy Jackson has advised on more than 500 corporate transactions including UK Stock Exchange transactions. In 2014 he advised Clipper Logistics plc on its London Stock Exchange flotation and a year later joined that company as Group Head of Legal and Company Secretary. Clipper was recently sold to GXO Logistics in a takeover valued at c£1 billion.

Guy retired from private practice in 2021 but continues to hold a number of non-executive board level positions and operates a legal context, business advisory consultancy providing board level guidance to several companies embarking on buy & build strategies in non-competing sectors.

Robert Johnstone
(Board Member)

Robert Johnstone is an experienced care sector executive in the UK having owned and run his own homecare company for the past 5 years as well as having a 6 month secondment at the department of health and social care to help with the implementation of the winter plan during the Covid 19 pandemic.

Prior to this Robert spent 35 in Retail with the last 15 years operating at Board level for Kingfisher in Russia and Dollar Finance in the UK, at Kingfisher in Russia where they traded as Castorama the business grew from start up to over $500 million turnover in 6 years from 2006 to 2012 with Robert as the Retail Operations Director.

Robert has a wealth of Operational and Growth experience having worked with Staples the Office Superstore in the UK during their start up and growth to over 100 stores, he was also part of the team who grew the Kingfisher (B&Q) warehouse division to over 100 stores in the UK before moving to Russia with Kingfisher.

At dollar Finance in the UK Robert was brought in as part of a team to transform Dollar Finance who had a 600 store portfolio on the high street in the UK into a respectable financial institution, a major part of this was to slim down and restructure the business which included a 300 store closure programme, this brought different challenges from the expansion and growth he had previously experienced but added another asset to his skill set.

Focusing on the people within the business and how they will react to the change that any growth brings is key to how Robert achieves commercial success, this coupled with robust operational change programmes is critical when dealing with expansion, acquisition and mergers.

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Tarishi Suhalka
(Founder)

Miss Suhalka being an IT professional, has profound passion in integrating IT and Marketing. From her personal experiences she has seen the combination serving well for big companies like Dell Technologies, Allianz, T-Systems and LOVOO enabling them to expand their businesses internationally.

She has worked in T-Systems with their outsourcing strategies for business expansion beyond the geographical locations and delivering globally in DACH along with countries like India, Russia, Brazil and Hungary.

Being the former 1st Brand Ambassador for DELL–India, she represented DELL for the nation. After competing with 83 candidates across India in the year-long program, Miss Suhalka was declared as the first Brand Ambassador ever in the history of DELL India. She later worked with DELL on one of its biggest projects – DELL Aarambh which had an impact on more than 1.5 Million students across the nation leading to several Million of Euros in sales. Tarishi was responsible for leading the project in Maharashtra which happens to be the most industrialized state in India.

She has always been attracted towards a life of self-sufficiency, risk-taking and enjoying the fruits of labor. Coming from a family involved in real estate, she also has profound enthusiasm in the real estate sector. Due to her passion and work experiences she is now captivated to lead businesses in several industries.

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Considering a Partial Sale of the Company? Want to Sell the Majority? We are happy to talk.

If you're considering a partial sale or looking to sell the majority of your company, CAPTARON is the ideal partner for you. As an investment consortium, we take pride in our team members' proven track record of successful acquisitions and can offer you a smooth and efficient process. By selling your business to CAPTARON, you can unlock immediate value while maintaining a stake in its future success. Our team of experienced professionals will work closely with you to understand your goals and negotiate favorable terms. With our financial strength and strategic insights, we can provide you with a compelling offer that aligns with your vision. Reach out to CAPTARON today, and let's discuss how we can make your business sale a success.

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Considering a 100% Sale? We are happy to talk.

Selling your business is a significant decision, especially when considering a 100% sale. We understand the importance of finding the right buyer who not only appreciates the value you have built, but who also has the resources to drive its continued growth. As an investment consortium focused on acquiring businesses, we have the financial strength and expertise to ensure a seamless transition. By selling your business to CAPTARON, you can confidently move on to your next venture, knowing that your legacy is in capable hands. Our team will guide you through the entire process, offering a fair valuation and a straightforward acquisition experience. Contact CAPTARON today, and let's explore the possibilities of selling your business to us.

John Yates
(Board Member)

John Yates is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales who trained with Deloitte in London and Coopers and Lybrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. After his training he moved to the United States and worked with Occidental Petroleum Inc in multiple locations and finally in the headquarters in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles John moved to London where he continued to work for Occidental Petroleum, followed by positions with Elf Aquitaine, Glencore and JKX Oil and Gas. During this time, he worked extensively in Russia and Eastern Europe. Upon leaving the oil industry John joined a number of private equity backed companies in a wide selection of industries as the Finance Director or CFO. More recently John has worked as Interim Finance Director/CFO primarily in PE backed companies. These companies have ranged in size from start-ups to companies with turnovers in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

John works both at the strategic level and the operational level. Most recently he has been involved in a number of corporate transformational programs. As well as the USA and Eastern Europe he has worked in Africa, Australia, Far East, Middle East and Western Europe.

John has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Kingston University, London. His doctoral thesis looked at the relationship between Entrepreneurship. Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance.