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Biography

Raymond Svider is a Partner, Chairman of BC Partners and Chairman of its Executive Committee. He joined BC Partners in Paris in 1992 before moving to the London office in 2000 and relocated to New York in 2008. Previously, Mr. Svider worked in investment banking at Wasserstein Perella in New York and Paris, and at the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago. Mr. Svider has an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MSc in engineering from Ecole Polytechnique and a degree in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications. Mr. Svider is currently Executive Chairman of PetSmart, Chairman of the Board of Chewy, Inc. (NYSE “CHWY”) and Chairman of the Board of Madison Logic. He also serves on the boards of Valtech, Altice USA (NYSE “ATUS”), Navex Global and EAB. Mr. Svider additionally serves on the Board of the Polsky Center Private Equity Council at the University of Chicago; he is a Council Member on the Council of Chicago Booth and is on the Board of Trustees of the Nightingale-Bambord school.