Ryan Robson

Managing Partner

Ryan is a founding partner of Sovereign Capital has been integral to the development of its Buy & Build strategy and its team. Ryan leads our education and training team at Sovereign and his transactions have included educational Buy & Build successes SENAD (exited at 6.0x money multiple) and Alpha Plus (exited at 5.5x money multiple), training providers esg and Paragon and more recently international schools group, WCL.  He has also chaired and contributed to a number of policy reviews on educational disadvantage and children in care.

Ryan has also led the ongoing development of DC Leisure and LPM in the support services sector and NFA in the healthcare sector.

Ryan has worked in private equity since 1993 and has led a large number of successful private equity investments, whilst at HSBC and Gresham.

He has a BA in History from the University of Cambridge.