Brian Ruder

Brian is Co-Managing Partner and Co-CEO of Permira. Brian joined Permira in 2008 and currently serves on Permira’s Executive Committee and the buyout funds’ Investment Committee. Since joining, he has been instrumental in building the firm’s Technology sector team, which he co-led until 2023, and has worked on a number of the firm’s most notable transactions, including Ancestry, Genesys, Informatica, LegalZoom, Lytx, Magento, McAfee, Relativity, Renaissance Learning, TeamViewer and Zendesk.

Prior to Permira, Brian was Partner at Francisco Partners, where he covered investments in the Software and Services sectors. He started his investing career at Hellman & Friedman and has been involved in founding numerous successful technology startups.

Brian has a degree in Philosophy with Mathematics from Harvard College, USA, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, USA.