Geneva, 22 May 2018 - The Waypoint Capital Group today announces that it has appointed Mr. Ron Cami as its new Group General Counsel. Mr. Cami will report to Waypoint’s Chairman, Mr. Ernesto Bertarelli, and serve as a member of the Group’s board of directors. Mr. Cami will have a central role in partnership with Mr. Stefan Meister, the Group Chief Operating Officer of Waypoint, in helping to create and then deliver the group’s strategy for future business development and growth.

Mr. Cami joins Waypoint from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, where he was a partner in its Corporate Department in Northern California and New York, leading the firm’s private equity practice. From 2010 to 2016 he was Partner and General Counsel of TPG Global in San Francisco, prior to which he was a partner in the Corporate Department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York. In his career he has accrued deep experience in acting for both private equity and corporate clients and has extensive knowledge in the full range of M&A transactions, all aspects of private equity transactions, joint ventures, partnerships, shareholder activism and corporate governance issues.

Mr. Cami is a visiting professor at Berkeley School of Law, where he teaches classes on the law of M&A transactions. He received his professional qualification from Rutgers University School of Law in 1993, having completed a B.A. at Harvard College in 1989. Following Law School and through 1994, Mr. Cami clerked for Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy in U.S. District Court in New York City.

Commenting on the appointment, Ernesto Bertarelli said:

“I am very pleased to welcome Ron to Waypoint and look forward to working closely with him as we continue the growth and development of our enterprise. Ron has a reputation as an exceptional professional; he possesses a highly experienced and accomplished legal mind; and, he has always showed a deep responsibility in how he discharges these capabilities. These are all attributes we value greatly and his appointment represents fantastic news for our group as we move forward with the next phase of its development.”

Mr. Cami said:

“I am delighted to be joining Waypoint and to work alongside Ernesto Bertarelli and the immensely impressive team that he has built to implement his vision for its future growth. I appreciate Waypoint’s entrepreneurial spirit and its diversity of businesses, and recognise these are all enhanced by the unique “culture of the possible” created and nurtured by Ernesto during many years of success. Combined with a depth of talent unique for such a private investment group, this is an opportunity I could not refuse.”