Enrique Klix
CEO and Director
Mr. Klix has significant international experience after being based in Australia, Europe, and Latin America for more than 30 years. Mr. Klix has a track record of leading and advising corporations and governments on turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, operational and financial restructuring, and greenfield start-ups with an aggregate value in excess of $30 billion.
Between January 2019 and July 2020 Mr. Klix served as Orora Cartons Australia’s General Manager (ASX: ORA). Under his leadership, the business went through an operational, commercial, and financial turnaround before being sold to Nippon Paper.
Between 2014 and 2016 Mr. Klix served as Senior Vice President at McKinsey & Co.’s recovery and transformation division in Australia and New Zealand.
Mr. Klix also served as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of McColl’s Transport between 2009 and 2014. Under his tenure, McColl’s Transport was recognized as the “Turnaround of the Year” in 2012, before being sold to a private equity consortium led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Mr. Klix was an investor in TrademarkVision, an Australian company that utilized image recognition and artificial intelligence technology for trademark searches and protection. In 2018 TrademarkVision was acquired by Clarivate Analytics (NYSE: CLVT) from the U.S., and Mr. Klix was instrumental in supporting the company through the acquisition.
He is an active seed and pre-initial public offering investor in Australia and other geographies, including minority equity stakes in Groundfloor (Last K Ventures Pty. Ltd.) and Miso Robotics.
Prior to moving to Australia, Mr. Klix worked for ten years as an investment banker for Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup (NYSE: C)) and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in London focused on servicing telecommunications companies across Europe on mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity capital markets transactions.
Mr. Klix also played lead roles in the initial and secondary public offerings of many energy, telecommunications, and beverage companies such as Enel S.p.A. (BIT: ENEL), Energias de Portugal, S.A. (ELI: EDP), and Compañía Cervecerías Unidas, S.A. (NYSE: CCU).
Mr. Klix is also a director of Klix II Pty. Ltd.
Mr. Klix holds a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina and an MBA from the University of Cambridge in England.