Torsten Schneider

Torsten Schneider is a Partner at Afinum Management GmbH, a Munich-headquartered private equity firm focused on majority investments in medium-sized DACH companies. Afinum’s current public materials describe the firm as an investor in founder- and family-owned, profitable companies, with an emphasis on succession situations, management buyouts / buy-ins, group-building strategies, and shareholder-structure optimization.

Afinum announced in early 2023 that Schneider had been promoted to Partner, alongside Elias Bitzer. The firm stated that Schneider joined Afinum in September 2015 and, before that, worked as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt and Munich. Afinum’s career page also cites Burkhard von Wangenheim, Kai Roolf, and Torsten Schneider as examples of internal development into Partner roles.

A ContactOut profile adds that Schneider worked at BCG from August 2011 to July 2015 in the Corporate Finance Task Force and had earlier M&A / corporate finance experience at J.P. Morgan, Rothschild, and KPMG. The same profile lists his education as an MSc in International Business / Finance from HEC Paris, a BBA from ESB Business School at Reutlingen University, and a business finance degree from Edinburgh Napier University.

• Afinum focuses on “medium-sized companies in the DACH region” that are founder- or family-owned, profitable, and active in one of its target sectors.
• The firm’s current buyout strategy targets succession situations, management buyouts / buy-ins, development of grouped business concepts, and shareholder-structure optimization.
• Afinum typically seeks clear majority stakes up to 100%, with revenue of EUR 20-200 million, EBITDA of about EUR 5-20 million, and purchase prices of EUR 30-150 million.
• Sector focus is concentrated in Software & TMT / Tech Services, Healthcare, Industrial Technology, and Consumer & Internet.
• Afinum’s stated operating approach is partnership-oriented: the firm says it works with founders and management teams to define growth roadmaps and create “category champions of tomorrow.”
• Afinum states that it is willing to support companies through strategic levers such as value-creation platforms, add-on acquisitions, operational improvements, and expansion into new market areas.