Merche is the Chief Talent Officer at Kingswood Capital Management. Merche is responsible for human capital strategy across Kingswood and the firm’s portfolio companies, with a focus on talent assessment and development, expanding the firm’s capacity to attract and develop top-tier leadership talent to drive growth and create value within our portfolio.
Merche brings more than 25 years of experience with Fortune 100/500 companies and PE firms. Merche previously served as Chief Talent & HR Officer at Grain Management, MD at Goldman Sachs leading the global coaching and advisory practice, was Head of Talent, Leadership & OD at Prudential in Hong Kong, and Unilever in Singapore. She began her career at PwC in Europe.
Merche holds a MS in Neuroscience at Columbia, a Master’s in Psychology at Harvard, and an Economics and Business Administration degree from CUNEF Complutense University, Madrid. She is a certified Master Practitioner Executive Coach, Coach supervisor and assessor, Board facilitator, and certified in numerous behavioral profiling tools.

About Kingswood Capital Management

Kingswood Capital Management, LP (“Kingswood” or the “Firm”) is a private investment firm primarily focused on investing in leading middle market companies which stand to benefit from our capital and extensive operating resources. We embrace complexity and are well-positioned to support businesses at inflection points in their development to drive durable value. The Firm brings relevant industry relationships and a broad network of internal and external operating resources to strengthen businesses and enhance value for all stakeholders. Based in Los Angeles, Kingswood is a cohesive team of senior professionals from industry leading private equity firms with a history of success. Kingswood currently has approximately $3.0 billion of capital under management and is investing out of its third institutional fund which was oversubscribed and held a final close in July 2024 above its hard cap with approximately $1.5 billion of capital commitments.