===== Cranemere ===== Dec 21, 2012 - THE CRANEMERE GROUP LIMITED is a Private limited company (Ltd.) company based in FLOOR 5, SMITHSON TOWER ST. JAMES'S STREET, United Kingdom, which employs 2858 people. The company started trading on 21 December 2012. The company registration number is 08339652, It’s main line of business activity is Other business support service activities n.e.c, and the company is listed as Active. {{ ::cranemere_tax_loopholes.png?800 |}} Cranemere was founded by Vincent Mai, former chief executive and chairman of AEA Investors, a private equity firm founded to make investments on behalf of SG Warburg & Company,as well as Rockefeller, Mellon and Harriman families ((https://web.archive.org/web/20201203133924/https://www.privateequityinternational.com/ex-obama-advisor-gathers-1-5bn-buffett-style-long-holds-exclusive/)) Founded in 2012, The Cranemere Group is a private equity firm based in London, United Kingdom. The firm is focused on investing in businesses in the United States and Europe. It is a long-term, values-aligned partner with permanent capital, business-building expertise and a global network. Cranemere Group Team (25) [[:Jeffrey Zients]] Chief Executive Officer - Washington, DC [[:Christopher Mahan]] Senior Managing Director - New York, NY [[:Diana de Callejon]] Managing Director - New York, NY [[:Eric Minkove]] Managing Director - New York, NY [[:Marion Oswald]] Managing Director - Frankfurt, Germany ((https://web.archive.org/web/20200630033421/https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/55487-53#team)) ==== "Quiet Capital" New Business Old Money ==== Family offices: 'Quiet capital' By Maureen Milford Family offices discreetly seeking investments in other families’ businesses are competing with private equity investors. Private equity and strategic buyers aren’t the only suitors pursuing family businesses today. Family offices, those low-key organizations formed to manage the wealth of ultra-high-net-worth families, are discreetly wooing business families who might be interested in selling a stake. “It’s sticky capital,” says D’Argento. “They hold and keep investments until it’s appropriate to exit them. There’s less of an institutional feel, and it’s a bit more personal.” Take [[:Vincent Mai]], who spent more than 20 years in private equity. Mai says he found it frustrating “to be selling really good businesses I didn’t want to sell, and I saw the need for an alternative structure.” In 2012, he founded The Cranemere Group, a private holding company backed by family offices that acquires and holds family businesses for the long term. Lansing Crane, former chairman and CEO of Crane Currency, which partnered with private equity in 2008, thinks family offices provide distinct advantages. “I think they’re a great solution,” he says. But because the family office sector is so discreet, finding a partner can take work, say those in the field. “It’s a fragmented, cloudy world,” D’Argento says. “It’s hard. There’s no list [of family offices seeking investments],” Soldano acknowledges. Stover agrees most connections between family enterprises and family office happen through networking. “It’s known as ‘quiet capital,’” he says.((https://web.archive.org/web/20200919174213/https://www.familybusinessmagazine.com/family-offices-quiet-capital)) ==== Founder Vincent Mai ==== {{ ::vincent_mai_cranemere.png?400|}} Vincent Mai is a businessman and financier who has been engaged in a range of philanthropic activities for several decades. He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Cranemere Group Limited, an investment holding company. Having led AEA Investors, a New York based private equity firm, for many years, he then founded Cranemere in the belief that investors were better served by owning shares in a private company with a permanent capital structure whose main objective is to work in partnership with good management teams to own high quality companies for the long term. During his career, Mr. Mai has served on many corporate boards including [[:Burt’s Bees]] (Chairman), [[:Dal-Tile]], [[:Healthco]], [[:Sola]], and Specialty Coatings. Prior to joining AEA he was a partner at Lehman Brothers in New York and before that he was an Executive Director of [[:S.G. Warburg & Co]]., Ltd. In London. Mr. Mai’s philanthropic activities have included a focus on early childhood development with the belief that the first five years of a child’s life are amongst the most important from an education and development standpoint. He is the Chairman of the Board of [[:Sesame Workshop]], a leading not-for-profit institution that uses media and technology **to promote learning and good life habits to small children** in the US and globally. He is also actively engaged in a wide range of human rights issues including serving as the founding chairman, 15 years ago, of the [[:International Center for Transitional Justice]], a non-profit organization dedicated to pursuing **accountability for mass human rights abuses** through transitional justice mechanisms. Mr. Mai is a member of the [[:Council on Foreign Relations]] and served on its board from 1998 to 2004. He co-chaired a report on Angola issued by the Council in 2007. He is also a Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin. He was a Trustee of the [[:Carnegie Corporation]] of New York for ten years. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Julliard School and co-hosts Telluride Musicfest, a chamber music concert series organized every summer in Telluride, Colorado. He has been honored by several organizations including [[:Fountain House]], The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Global Kids, The Merage Foundation, The [[:Africa-America Institute]], The [[:National Child Labor Committee]] as a recipient of the David T. Kearns Award for Excellence and Innovation in Education, and The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization as a recipient of the 2012 Ripple of Hope Award. He grew up on a farm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa and was educated at the University of Cape Town. He lives in Port Washington, Long Island and is married with three children and five grandchildren. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20200922140316/https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/vmai)) ==== Diana Propper de Callejon - Duke University Nicholas Institute ==== {{ ::diana_propper_de_callejon_-_cranemere.png?400|}} Diana Propper de Callejon is managing director at the global investment company [[:Cranemere]] Inc., where she is responsible for building the firm's sustainability platform. Previously, she spent 10 years as General Partner at [[:Expansion Capital]], investing in clean tech and sustainable businesses. She serves on the board of [[:Echoing Green]], an organization that supports social entrepreneurs. Board of Advisors Duke University Nicholas Institute bio ((https://web.archive.org/web/20190906132701/https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/about/board-of-advisors))((https://web.archive.org/web/20190906135847/https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/people/diana-propper-de-callejon)) ==== Jamie Metzl ==== Jamie Metzl joined [[:ICTJ]]’s Board of Directors 2013 [[:International Center for Transitional Justice]] (ICTJ)- bio details [[:Jamie Metzl]] is a Partner of the global investment company [[:Cranemere]] Inc. and a Senior Fellow of the [[:Asia Society]]. He has served as the Executive Vice President of the Asia Society, Deputy Staff Director and Senior Counselor of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senior **Coordinator for International Public Information at the Department of State**, and Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs on the National Security Council, and as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District in Kansas City in 2004. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20130826150741/https://www.ictj.org/news/pamela-hogan-and-jamie-metzl-join-ictj%E2%80%99s-board-directors)) ==== Healthcare Investing ==== On June 5, 2018, private equity firm The Cranemere Group acquired healthcare services company NorthStar Anesthesia from TPG Global. Acquisition Highlights - This is The Cranemere Group’s 1st transaction in the Healthcare Services sector. This is The Cranemere Group’s 1st transaction in the United States. This is The Cranemere Group’s 1st transaction in Texas. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20221204183910/https://mergr.com/the-cranemere-group-acquires-anesthesia-consulting-%26-management))