Raymond Svider is Chairman and a Partner at BC Partners, a private equity firm focusing mainly on the upper mid-market in Europe and North America. The Firm also invests in Credit and Real Estate. Mr. Svider joined BC Partners in Paris in 1992 before moving to the London office in 2000 to lead its investments in the technology and telecoms industries, then relocated to New York in 2008 and assumed the role of Chairman in 2009. He Chairs the Management Committee and the Private Equity Investment Committee of the Firm. Mr. Svider is currently Executive Chairman of PetSmart, Chairman of the Board of Chewy, Inc. (NYSE “CHWY”), Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Aenova Group, and Chairman of the Boards of Valtech and Madison Logic. He also serves on the boards of GFL Environmental (NYSE/TSX “GFL”), Altice USA (NYSE “ATUS”), Navex Global, Presidio, GardaWorld, and EAB. Prior to joining BC Partners, Mr. Svider worked in investment banking at Wasserstein Perella in New York and Paris, and at the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago. He earned his MBA from Chicago Booth in 1989, his MS in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in 1985, and his MS in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris in 1987. Mr. Svider joined Booth Council in 2023. Additionally, he participated in the Management Conference PE panel with Steve Kaplan in April 2024 and hosted the September PE Council meeting at his firm.