Meet our team
MEET OUR TEAM
MEET OUR TEAM
Our team has extensive experience advising on M&A transactions (purchase and sale of companies) having successfully completed more than 50 operations. We are a solid and multidisciplinary team that combines experience and professional achievements in companies of national and international prestige.
One of our great added values is that our partners are the main contact figure for our customers, as they are involved and participate in all phases of the process, making the difference and making the most of each situation.
At ACUITY ONE we know each sector needs specific knowledge to ensure success in the transaction process, that is why we have different specialised profiles for each area, called “industry partners”: company CEOs and former Acuity Clients with a wide experience in their sector.
Partners
PARTNERS
Octavio Ariza Santiago
Former Managing Director at Bcms España.
Octavio started as Accounts Auditor and Risk Consultant at BDO. Then he worked as Financial Analyst for SG Berkshire Group, developing Leverage Buy Out operations until he became Chief Analyst for the Acuity AG investment fund.
CFA Charterholder and member of the CFA Spain Society since 2014. Graduated in Business Administration in Complutense University of Madrid.
Completed transactions: +30
Irene Martín García
Former Head of Operations at Bcms España, advising all M&A transactions for Spain.
Irene started working as a Financial Auditor at Deloitte. Then, she worked as Strategy Consulting Manager for EME & LATAM in the Strategic Consultancy and Investment Department at The Adecco Group, in Switzerland.
Master in Audit and Management Development from ICADE and graduated in Business Administration at the University of Alcalá.
Completed transactions: +20
Octavio Ariza Santiago
Former Managing Director at Bcms España.
Octavio started as Accounts Auditor and Risk Consultant at BDO. Then he worked as Financial Analyst for SG Berkshire Group, developing Leverage Buy Out operations until he became Chief Analyst for the Acuity AG investment fund.
CFA Charterholder and member of the CFA Spain Society since 2014. Graduated in Business Administration in Complutense University of Madrid.
Completed transactions: +30
Irene Martín García
Former Head of Operations at Bcms España, advising all M&A transactions for Spain.
Irene started working as a Financial Auditor at Deloitte. Then, she worked as Strategy Consulting Manager for EME & LATAM in the Strategic Consultancy and Investment Department at The Adecco Group, in Switzerland.
Master in Audit and Management Development from ICADE and graduated in Business Administration at the University of Alcalá.
Completed transactions: +20
UK PARTNERS
UK PARTNERS
James Pugh
Founder of CapEQ, a company that works with Acuity One managing international M&A mandates.
Previously, he was Head Director at a M&A Boutique focused on Mid-Market operations in the UK. He has completed more than 40 transactions, including the sale of Ashchem Pharmacy to Bregal Freshstream; Vegetarian Express to Bridges Ventures; WC Rowe to Iberia Industry Capital; and Ecutek Ltd to Autometer/Promus Equity.
Mark Sapsford
Founder of CapEQ, a company that works with Acuity One managing international M&A mandates.
He was Head at M&A and has more than 25 years of experience. He has completed more than 45 transactions and supervised more than 100, leading teams in the United Kingdom, the United States, The Netherlands, Australia, Spain, and Poland. Furthermore, he established his international office in New York, from where he helped complete several transactions such as the sale of Optimum Lightning to Philiphs Lightning Biokinetics to Foster Wheeler; and Precision Pipeline to Sentinel Capital. Since he came back to the UK, he has completed a wide range of international transactions in the mid-market segment.
Douglas Edmuns
Partner of CapEQ, a company that works closely with Acuity One managing international M&A mandates.
Previously, he was Head at M&A, and he has more than 20 years of experience. He has held senior management positions in technology and professional service companies. He has founded several technology companies and investment vehicles. Between his transactions, we can mention the sale of CAN UK to RSK Group, the acquisition of Vista Equity-backed Granicus by Firmstep; the sale of Cynergie UK to Davies Group; PCM Healthcare to Cogoora; and File Express to Iron Mountain.
Operations team
Team
María Rodríguez
Senior M&A Project Manager
Previously Project Manager at Bcms España, responsible for the correct planning, execution, and supervision of M&A projects. Maria started working in the office of Mercedes Benjumea, collaborating in civil and commercial areas. Then, she specialized in project management for M&A. Graduated in Law from the University of Cádiz, she holds a degree in Commercial Sales Management and nowadays, she is studying the ThePowerMBA Master.
Borja González
Financial Analyst/ Financial modelling
Previamenteformó parte equipo de Transacciones de EY.
Colabora en el estudio y ejecución de transacciones como parte del equipo de Operaciones. Doble grado de Derecho y Administración de Empresas por la Universidad de Navarra.
Ignacio Arteaga
Financial Analyst
Previously Analyst at DELOITTE. He collaborates studying and executing transactions as part of the Operations team. Graduated in Business Administration from CUNEF.
Departament Research
Specialised Research Team
Specialised team dedicated to identifying and researching buyers worldwide. Business Intelligence Solutions: Business and Market Research
Industry advaisor
Pedro Domínguez
Tourism Senior Advisor
Pedro has more than 20 years of senior experience in Finance and as a member of Executive Committees.
During the last 15 years, he has been Head of different tourism enterprises, covering the entire value chain in enterprises such as Grupo MTS-OTS Globe (one of the biggest DMC-bedbanks of the Mediterranean area), Sunwing Travel Group (the largest vertically integrated tourism group in North America). Pedro has management teams in more than 30 countries in EMEA, Caribbean and Central America.
Graduated in Business Administration. He holds an MBA and PDD from the IE, as well as a Fusion and Acquisition executive programme from Chicago Booth University.
Values
Values
Our way of thinking and our philosophy at work is what has allowed us to grow and achieve success in our transactions, based on the following principles and values:
- Service excellence is the heart of everything we do. We understand the business sale process as one of our most important transactions in the life of an entrepreneur.
- We seek to be at the forefront of the sector. The actual technology allows us to develop new tools to offer our customers a continuous improvementin terms of efficiency.
- Neutrality: the lack of neutrality in this type of transaction is one of the main problems in this area. Our process is designed to advise the customer objectively based on facts and conclusions obtained throughout the project.
- Listen, understand, and face the situations from a pragmatic, human and flexible point of view.
- Be transparent throughout the process to provide security.