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Thielen founded his own family office Gryphion in 2019 in order to manage his assets with a focus on private equity investing.

Thielen donated £50,000 to the British Conservative Party in April 2016.

VVD politician Hans van Baalen has mentioned Thielen as one of the sponsors of this 2014 campaign for the European Parliament.

He is chairman and founder of Waterland Private Equity Investments, an independent private equity group which focuses its investments on Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Waterland has been involved in about 500 transactions in 54 industries in 18 countries with an equity base of around €6 billion. The company owned Intertrust Group, a firm specialised in tax avoidance, until it sold that firm in 2012 for an estimated €400 million. Waterland has ranked in the top 3 of best performing private equity houses globally for 8 years in a row.

In 2011, Thielen won the annual APEC ‘Private Equity Man of the Year’ Award, an award for Private Equity leaders established by the Amsterdam Private Equity Club.

In 2009, he was ranked 170 in the Quote 500 list of richest Dutch people; in 2018 he was placed at number 82 in the Netherlands Quote 500.

(Robertus H. L. M.) "Rob" Thielen (born 1961) is a Dutch entrepreneur and investor, working primarily in Europe and the CIS. He is chairman and founder of Waterland Private Equity, co-founding partner of Russia-based private equity group, Elbrus Capital, and chairman of Gryphion family office