Sarah Shackleton Bio

Sarah has been a partner of DPI since its inception and has over 20 years of finance experience. Sarah is responsible for administration of DPI and its funds, including Legal; Compliance; HR; IT; Operations; Facilities; Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”). Sarah is an active board director on Guernsey private equity fund general partners and Morocco and Luxembourg investment holding companies. She is also a co-chair of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) Compliance & Best Practice Committee. Before joining DPI, Sarah was an Associate Director on the Technology Equity Research Team at UBS in London. She spent seven years as an equity analyst specialising in the telecommunications equipment sector and covering large-cap European companies in that sector, including Nokia, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent. Her team was voted runner up or better in both the Thomson Reuters Extel and Institutional Investor surveys in the last three years of her tenure at UBS. Sarah was an operations risk analyst at UBS prior to this. Before UBS, Sarah worked in various accounting and financial systems analyst roles in the finance departments of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and HSBC Investment Bank, both in London. Sarah holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Accounting from the University of Bristol and was born and educated in Zimbabwe. Sarah is a citizen of the United Kingdom.