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The Team
Patrik Egeland
Managing Partner
Patrik is an experienced private equity and M&A professional with more than 20 years in the industry. He started his career at McKinsey & Company before joining Herkules Capital (Ferd), one of the leading Nordic buyout funds, where he spent 13 years. After Herkules, Patrik was a partner with PWC, heading up the M&A advisory business in Norway. In 2019 he co-founded Capillar, a Stockholm-based private equity firm focusing on small cap buy-and -build investments.Patrik has been involved in about 100 transactions including platform investments, add-on acquisitions, and as an M&A advisor. He has completed five PE fundraisings and has extensive experience working with founders, family offices, and institutional investors. At ININ/Qben, he served as Investment Director and CFO, leading M&A processes, financial structuring and investor relations. Patrik has extensive experience as board member and chairman.Patrik is analytical and thorough, but also effective at building trust with entrepreneurs and navigating complex negotiations. At Framheim, he serves as Managing Partner with responsibility for fundraising and investor relations, in addition to deal origination investment execution and portfolio company value creation.
Fredrik Ekholm
Partner
Fredrik has spent 15 years at the intersection of infrastructure operations, corporate transactions, and investments. He has led or been deeply involved in more than 20 transactions across his career, including platform builds, carve-outs, integrations, and add-on acquisitions.Fredrik began in transaction advisory at Deloitte and EY-Parthenon before moving into corporate leadership at VR Track and NRC Group – two of the largest rail infrastructure companies in the Nordics. There he led strategy and corporate development, including the €225m VR Track carve-out and integration into NRC Group. At ININ/Qben, he served as Investment Director, working with transaction execution across the Rail, Power, and TIC platforms.Fredrik speaks fluent Finnish and Swedish and works comfortably in Norwegian – a critical asset for sourcing and building relationships across the Nordic market. At Framheim, he serves as Partner working with deal origination, execution, and portfolio value creation, with a particular focus on Finland.
Øivind Horpestad
Operating Partner
Øivind is a serial entrepreneur and industrial leader who has founded, built, and led companies across the Nordic infrastructure sector. He founded Team Bane in 2011, growing it into NRC Group – which he took public on Oslo Børs and scaled to NOK 6 billion in revenue and 2,500 employees in just 10 years through a combination of organic growth and M&A. This made NRC Group the leading rail infrastructure entrepreneur in the Nordics.After stepping down as CEO of NRC Group in 2019, Øivind has continued working with infrastructure services companies. He was integral in building Endúr ASA into a leading marine infrastructure player (listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange) as Chairman. He joined ININ Group as CEO in 2021, crafting the ININ investment strategy and bringing investments to life and driving value creation across the Rail, Power, and TIC platforms.Øivind is a hands-on operator with deep relationships across the Nordic infrastructure ecosystem. His ability to identify opportunities, attract talent, execute M&A, and build scalable organizations is at the core of Framheim's investment model.
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