Media Vet Scott Marden Rejoins Compass Partners, Plans To Raise $600 Million PE Fund
Compass Advisers today will announce the return of Scott Marden, a longtime media banker and executive who has spent the past four years overseeing information and media private equity for DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. He will be in charge of a new principal investment effort that will try raising a $600 million fund focused on middle-market opportunities in the business and information services space. Marden was part of Compass in 1999, when it raised over $900 million for a private equity fund focused on Europe. He left two years later to become president of McGraw Hill's media and information group (BusinessWeek, etc.), before moving onto DLJ MB.
22 March 2010•2 mins read
