Global relations

Jonathon Bond, the London-based managing partner for fundraising and investor relations at emerging markets specialist Actis, knows about the nuts and bolts of international operations. From 1994 to 2001, while at HSBC Private Equity Asia, he founded and developed the company's operations in India. Now responsible for Actis' global fundraising and investor relations activities, he is also a member of the firm's management committee and investment committees for Africa, South Asia and Malaysia, among other far-flung regions. With so many private equity firms building their businesses abroad, we talked to Bond about international private equity trends.