Philippe Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, also known as "PVS", (born 17 May 1964) is a German businessman, residing in London, United Kingdom.
Before founding the company, Mr. von Stauffenberg worked for the European arm of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst (HMTF) now known as HM Capital Partners [5] in London for 5 years where he sourced, made investments and later often assumed a role as operational manager in the portfolio companies.
He gained his buy-and-build experience as an entrepreneur when he bought and ran the companies Heitman Documentation Services and Borg (1995–1998) for which he left Warburg Pincus[6] (1992–1995).
HMTF: Temic/Microtune, Media Capital, and EurotaxGlass, where he served as CEO from 2000 to 2002 Warburg Pincus: Danish Brands, Técnicas Reunidas Medioambientales, Luhns Between 2004 and 2008 PVS led two transactions in the media industry, investing in the German Klassik Radio[7] franchise and developing the business to become the pre-eminent listed German Radio franchise.
In 2010 PVS was instrumental in selling the company to Fluid Music, Canada, [10] which then became Mood Media Corporation.
With the proceeds of this investment, Greenback acquired ecoVeritas, a UK specialist in data collection and analysis for Corporate Social Responsibility and made an investment in Enval, a UK company that has developed a unique microwave-induced pyrolysis solution for recycling of low-density plastic packaging waste.