Jaime Hernández Soto

Jaime Hernández Soto is a founding partner of MCH Private Equity.

He was President of ASCRI (Spanish Association of Private Equity) and member of the Council of the EVCA (European Venture Capital Association).

Jaime has led deals in multiple industrial sectors, including food, financial services, retail distribution, manufacturing and services. Jaime is a member of the board of Litalsa and Prosur. Before MCH, he was a member of Grucycsa’s investment team with AUM of €125MM. Prior to this, he worked at Lazard Frères et Cie in Paris, where he helped develop the business in Iberia, in Banco.

Santander de Negocios (investment bank of Santander Group) in Madrid and Banco Exterior de España (now BBVA) in New York.

Jaime holds an B.Sc. cum laude in Business Administration from Caldwell University in Jersey

José Marí­a Muñoz

José Marí­a Muñoz is a founding partner of MCH Private Equity.

Since 1998 he has participated in more than twenty private equity transactions, mainly in buyouts in the Spanish mid-market, in a variety of sectors including specialized industry, distribution, services to companies and consumer products. He has also been promoter of several businesses, such as MyAlert.com or MCH Investment Strategies.

He has been a Board member and Director of companies such as Azulev, Comess Group, Qualytel, IQAP, Talgo, Gamo, Televida, Jeanologia and Lenitudes. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Europastry, TCI Cutting, Grupo Palacios de Alimentación and Aquanaria..

Before founding MCH, he worked for several years at McKinsey & Company in the US and Spain and previously was a Consultant in the Strategic Consulting Division of Andersen Consulting.

José Marí­a holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and was graduated as an Industrial Engineer from ETSII of Madrid. He has been a Visiting Professor of Business Creation at the Instituto de Empresa, member of ICA (Instituto de Consejeros y Administradores), member of the mid-market council in InvestEurope and is an active member of the Cí­rculo de Empresarios and CEAPI (Consejo Empresarial de America Latina).

José Manuel de Bartolomé

Before joining MCH, he was Managing Director of the Private Equity company of the financial group Ahorro Corporación, where he was a Director of companies in various sectors such as healthcare, food, consumer, environment and services, having actively participated in the investment and divestment processes of many of them.

He is currently a director of Litalsa, Vaughan, Llusar, Haizea, Logalty and Fermax.

In addition, he is an Independent Director of Xesgalicia, a Private Equity management company of the Xunta de Galicia, and Transportes Mazo.

José Manuel holds a degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa (IE).

Luis Parras

Luis Parras joined MCH in September 2018 as Partner.

Previously, he worked almost 15 years in Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan in Madrid and London respectively, advising large and medium companies in their M&A, ECM and DCM transactions, with special focus in Spain and Portugal.

Luis has a MSc in Civil Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris).

Celia Andreu

Since her reincorporation to MCH in September 2002, Celia has actively participated in the investment, monitoring and divestment processes of certain portfolio companies, especially in industrial, retail and consumer products sectors.

In 2021, she was appointed Head of Sustainability of the Firm with the responsibility of leading the implementation of the ESG framework within the management company and the portfolio companies of all Funds managed by MCH.

Celia actively participates in the proprietary search of investment opportunities and the monitoring and supervision of internal procedures of the Firm.

She was a director of Masvisión and Brasmar and currently participates in TCI´s Board of Directors.

Prior to joining MCH, she worked in Boston for two years as an Associate of Citizens Capital Inc., the Private Equity arm of Citizens Financial Group.

Celia holds a degree in Law and Business Administration and Management from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE, E-3).

Pablo Monjardí­n

Pablo Monjardí­n joined MCH as an Analyst in 2018.

Before joining MCH, Pablo worked at Ardian in the Mid Cap Buyout team in Madrid, where he has been involved in the analysis and valuation of several investment opportunities across different industries as well as the preparation of materials for investors and internal deal documentation.

Pablo holds an M.Eng degree in Engineering with Business Management from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Mario Ginel

Mario Ginel joined MCH in 2018 as an analyst.

Prior to MCH, Mario worked as a Deals consultant in PwC, where he was involved in projects covering several sectors. Previously, Mario worked for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna.

Mario holds a BSc and a MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI

Ana Lacave

Ana joined MCH in 2020 as an analyst.

Before joining MCH, Ana worked at The Cocktail as a Strategy Consultant where she was involved in international projects within the retail and Oil & Gas industries.

Ana holds a BSc and a MSc in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – ETSII, having completed her final year at TU Delft.