Sebastian is founding partner of CCAP and a seasoned deal maker with over 20 years of global investment banking experience having lived and worked in Hong Kong, the US, the UK and in Germany.
Since founding CCAP, he led several transactions in software, fintech, e-commerce fulfilment, and food tech. He is invested in and closely works with Optio Incentives, Linxfour, Zenfulfillment, the Livekindly Collective.
Prior to CCAP, Sebastian was responsible for Nomura’s media and consumer internet business and set up and ran its Education Investment Banking business in EMEA since 2013. He spent over 5 years in Germany at Lehman Brothers and Nomura working for clients in the German speaking region, over 2 years in Hong Kong at Nomura focusing on cross-border M&A from Asia into Europe and the US and the last 7 years in London covering Europe, Middle East and Africa.
He worked on sell-side, buyside M&A, minority investments, fundraisings, leveraged buyouts for media, consumer internet and information services clients across EMEA.
Sebastian graduated with an MBA (honours) from Sid Craig School of Business in Fresno, CA. and a Diplom Kaufmann (distinction) from the University of Passau in Germany. He speaks German, English and French.
Privately, he enjoys spending most time with his wife and three children. During morning hours and on weekends, he can be found pursuing his passion for road cycling, hiking and during winter speeding down the slopes on skis or on a snowboard.
