Jean Eric Salata
The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Jean Eric Salata is The Architect because he treats a firm as something to be engineered, not merely transacted through. From founding Baring Private Equity Asia to chairing EQT Group, his instinct has been to construct durable institutional frameworks, and his own vocabulary betrays it: stitch it all together, institutionalize, a unified systematic approach.
“Barry Ritolts, you're listening to Masters in Business on Bloomberg Radio. My extra special guest this week is Jean-Eric Salada. He is chair of EQT Group, one of the largest alternative managers outside of the US. They manage 316 billion dollars. So let's talk a little bit about how this all came about. 2022, you merged BPEA with EQT.”
“Year to date, the total number of activist shareholder campaigns has doubled in the last few years 50 to over 100 a year on the back of some of these reforms.”
“So, you got a healthy growth, tremendous CapEx spend. It's a little bit of the picks and shovels approach to you have this tremendous boom in AI that's feeding through. There's knock-on effects into the supply chain. And Asia's pretty well positioned to participate in that. You look at markets like Korea. You look at markets like Japan.”
“Who would have guessed? You know, Brie's up 60% last year, and Hong Kong was up, Japan was up in the 30s, and you had even Europe stock markets did better than the US last year. So the idea that having all your pension, all your retirement money in one market, it's worked pretty well for the time being.”
Masters in Business: “Riding Global Tailwinds with EQT's Jean Eric Salata”
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