George Hay

George Hay is an Associate at Metric Capital Partners, a pan-European private capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Luxembourg, Madrid, Munich, Paris and Stockholm. He joined Metric in 2019, where his work focuses on the operational improvement of the companies in Metric's portfolio — a value-creation role rather than a pure deal-origination one.

Before joining Metric, George was a Manager in EY's mid-market private equity value creation team. In that role he advised on pre-deal due diligence projects and on post-deal strategy and operational improvement initiatives — experience that maps directly onto his portfolio-operations remit at Metric.

George holds an MChem in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and is a qualified Chartered Accountant, giving him a combination of analytical/technical training and financial credentials that suits the diligence and value-creation side of private capital investing.

• Metric provides bespoke capital solutions to European companies seeking alternatives to traditional debt or equity financing — the firm describes itself as having "pioneered an asset class which did not exist in Europe prior to 2011."
• Targets established mid-market companies (enterprise value ~€50m–€500m), not early-stage startups; typical uses of capital include MBOs, MBIs, growth/development capital, refinancing and structured/rescue financing.
• Sector-agnostic across consumer, technology, real estate, industrials/manufacturing, pharma and hospitality, investing across continental Europe and the UK.
• George's personal focus is operational improvement / value creation within existing portfolio companies rather than writing first checks — so "yes" for him is grounded in a company's operational upside and executability, informed by his EY value-creation and Chartered Accountant background.