Senior Advisors

Senior Advisors Wendel
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Mel Immergut
Senior advisor

Board Member of ACAMS and Crisis Prevention Institute

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Gary Appel
Senior advisor
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Mel Immergut
Senior advisor

Board Member of ACAMS and Crisis Prevention Institute

Mel Immergut is a Senior Advisor in Wendel’s New York office. He joined Wendel in 2013. Mel is a Board Member of ACAMS and Crisis Prevention Institute.

Prior to joining Wendel, Mel served as the Chairman of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP for 18 years and was a partner in the law firm’s Corporate Department. He serves as Vice Chair of the Legal Aid Society and on the Columbia Law School Dean’s Council and the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors. Mel also serves as executive advisor to venture capital firm Marker LLC and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a member of the United States European Command Advisory Panel and a former member of the United States Southern Command Advisory Panel. Mel is Vice Chairman of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and served on the Defense Business Board of the United States Department of Defense.

He is a recipient of The Jewish Theological Seminary Simon H. Rifkind Award, the Legal Aid Society’s Servant of Justice Award and the Fund for Modern Courts John J. McCloy Memorial Award.

Mel received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD and MBA from Columbia University.

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Gary Appel
Senior advisor

Gary Appel is a Senior Advisor in Wendel’s New York office. He joined Wendel in 2022.

He also serves as a Senior Advisor to Investcorp International Inc., a global alternative asset manager, which he joined in 2013 as Vice Chairman of their North American Private Equity business.

Prior to joining Investcorp, he was Vice Chairman of Castle Harlan, Inc., a global middle market private equity funds manager. Before joining Castle Harlan, he was Vice Chairman of Glencoe Capital, Ltd., a Chicago-based middle market private equity funds manager. While at Glencoe he co-founded and managed one of the first independent co-investment funds created for a state retirement system.

In the late 1990s Gary was a Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns, Inc. Prior to that for 17 years, he was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. serving as a Managing Director and a founding partner of DLJ Merchant Banking and a member of DLJ Merchant Banking’s Board of Directors.

Throughout his career, Gary has served on the boards of directors of numerous corporations both public and private across a variety of industries, as well as several not-for-profit institutions. He currently serves on the board of Ibexis Life and Annuity Company. Additionally, he serves as an Executive-in-Residence and a member of the Advisory Board of the Private Equity Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Senior Advisors Wendel Growth
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Jonathan Benhamou
Senior advisor Wendel Growth

ex-CEO and co-Founder of People doc and co-CEO of Resilience

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Renaud Deraison
Senior advisor Wendel Growth

Co-Founder of Tenable

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Nick Hernandez
Senior advisor Wendel Growth

CEO and Founder of 360 Learning

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Jean-Luc Robert
Senior advisor Wendel Growth

CEO of Kyriba