Valerie McGrane

Valerie McGrane is an Investor at BGF in Ireland, where she focuses on providing growth capital to small and mid-sized businesses. In her current role, she structures minority equity investments typically ranging from €1 million to €10 million for regional enterprises across the United Kingdom and Ireland. McGrane recently facilitated BGF’s €7 million investment in the manufacturing firm Aubren, a transaction that marked the fund's eleventh Irish equity deal since 2017 and included the appointment of Paul Lynch as incoming chair. Prior to joining BGF, she worked in mergers and acquisitions advisory at Deloitte. During her tenure at Deloitte, she advised on various significant corporate transactions, including the strategic acquisition of the software company Nutritics. Her professional background centers on executing complex middle-market corporate finance transactions and deploying strategic growth equity into regional manufacturing and technology companies.