Une équipe internationale - HLD Group

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Board
Team

Houria Aïssa

Executive Assistante
Jessica Barretta

Office Manager
Christophe Bernardini

Operating Partner
Virgile Blanchard

Associate Director
Cédric Boxberger

Partner
Xavier Buck

Independent member of the Board of Directors
Cédric Chateau

Partner and Chairman of the Investments Committee
Laurent Chu

Financial Assistant
Viviane Clauss

Independent member of the Board of Directors
Julien Cordouan

Director - Business and Digital Operations
Guglielmo Cucchiara

Associate
Robert Dennewald

Independent member of the Board of Directors
Hans-Peter Diener

Senior Advisor
Geoffroy Desjeux

Director
Alessandra Di Gennaro

Office Manager
Gabriel Fossorier

Senior Advisor
Maxence Gailliot

Director
Grégoire Janet-Maître

Analyst
Salim Helou

Managing Director
Hélène Kiavué

Administrative assistante
Jean-Bernard Lafonta

Founding Partner
Ethel Najmark

Analyste
Constance Laneque

Managing Director
Julia Marc

Associate
Julie Le Goff

Associate Director
Alessandro Papetti

Partner
Rémi Perichon

Analyst
Salome Perruchon

Director
Mikael Petitjean

Reporting and Valuation Manager
Antoine Pineau

Managing Director
Anthony Schwab

Financial officer
Marietta Simonyan

Investor Relationship Manager / AML KYC Officer/ Legal Officer
Simon Savart

Associate Director
Charles Sun

Assistant director
Jean-Hubert Vial

Partner
Davide Vitrani

Associate Director
Antoine Wehrlin

Associate

Houria Aïssa

Executive Assistante

Houria joined the HLD Group in September 2021.

After 16 years in the Stellantis Group in charge of international logistics for a large part of Eastern Europe and North Africa, she joined the Renault Group in 2018. In 2020, she joined Hermès as Asia Area Manager and then Chanel as Digital Portfolio Manager.

Houria is a graduate of the Purshasing Business School PSA and holds an MBA in Luxury Management.”

Jessica Barretta

Office Manager

Jessica Barretta joined the HLD Group in 2021.

Jessica is graduated of the Ecole de Commerce et de Gestion in Luxembourg. She spent 2 years as an administrative assistant at RSM Tax & Accounting Luxembourg.

Jessica oversees the management and administration of the offices in Luxembourg.

She speaks French, English, Italian, Luxembourgish, Portuguese and German.

Christophe Bernardini

Operating Partner

Christophe Bernardini is a leading executive, recognised for his knowledge and expertise in the aviation and service industries. Aeronautical engineer, Christophe holds an executive MBA from HEC Paris and has held executive management positions for airlines, equipment manufacturers and maintenance providers. His extensive industry operational expertise and know-how in transformations, acquisitions and complex restructurings. As a consultant he accompanies businesses seeking new development strategies, acquisitions and divestment opportunities.

He joined HLD in 2019 as Operating Partner Aerospace & Defence.

Virgile Blanchard

Associate Director

Virgile joined HLD in February 2020.

He started his career at McKinsey&Company, where he worked for PE funds in the context of due diligence and value creation plans, as well as for entrepreneurs considering a opening their capital.

He also worked as strategic projects manager for WALLIX, European cybersecurity software editor.

Virgile graduated from HEC Paris Business School and holds a M2 in Public Law – Public Affairs from La Sorbonne Paris I.

Cédric Boxberger

Partner

Cédric Boxberger joined the HLD Group as a Partner in September 2021.

Graduated from ESCP-Europe, he began his career in restructuring consulting for SMEs in difficulty within the Deloitte group, where he worked from 2004 to 2008.

He joined the world of private equity in 2008 by joining the OFI Private Equity teams, which became Eurazeo Small-mid Buyout.

In 2012, he participated in the creation and development of the entrepreneurial fund Capital Croissance, of which he became Managing Partner in 2019, and carried out around fifteen transactions there.

Xavier Buck

Independent member of the Board of Directors

Cédric Chateau

Partner and Chairman of the Investments Committee

Cédric Chateau joined HLD Group Europe as a Partner and Chairman of the Investment Analysis Committee on January 1st, 2020.

Graduated from the School of Management of Lyon, Cédric Chateau began his career in the consulting firm Deloitte in 1998.

In 2001, he decided to join the field of Private Equity throughthe investment fund PAI Partners.

In 2005, he was appointed Partner at Advent International, in charge of the entire French market and with a strong exposure to Emerging Markets (notably China and India).

14 years later and after 18 years of experience in Private Equity and more than a dozen performed transactions, he has joined HLD Group Europe.

Laurent Chu

Financial Assistant

Laurent joined the HLD group in 2021.

He worked for 4 years in an accounting firm in Paris and then held several accountant positions in SMEs.

Laurent graduated from a BTS Accounting & Management Organizations.

Viviane Clauss

Independent member of the Board of Directors

Viviane Clauss has 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical sector in France and Germany, and in the financial sector in Luxembourg (Private Banking and Investment Funds).

After graduating from the EM Business School University of Strasbourg), she specialized in business development, marketing, communication and digital. She is the Marketing Director of Banque de Luxembourg since 2000 and she is behind the launch of the Women & Heritage initiative within the Bank.

She joined HLD Europe’s Board of Directors in January 2020.

Julien Cordouan

Director - Business and Digital Operations

Julien joined HLD in 2021.

Graduated in aerospace from ISAE-SUPAERO and from Stanford University, he started his career in 2004 in the automotive industry (Renault Group) then in aerospace (Daher Socata).

In 2010, he joined AlixPartners where he managed large transformation programs in different industries : consumer goods, energy, aerospace, rail, retail,…

In 2014, he integrated IDEMIA occupying different operational management roles, the last one being Chief Technology Officer and Vice President Engineering for the governmental Business Unit.

His operational background and his know-how in transformation and technologies allow him to support HLD companies in their development, their product roadmap and vision, their operational excellence, and their digital transformation.

Guglielmo Cucchiara

Associate

Guglielmo joined HLD in June 2019 and is based in Milan.

He gained previous experience in finance earlier in Pictet (Geneva) and later in Fideuram (London).

Guglielmo holds a Master in International Management from IE Business School.

Robert Dennewald

Independent member of the Board of Directors

Hans-Peter Diener

Senior Advisor

Geoffroy Desjeux

Director

Alessandra Di Gennaro

Office Manager

Alessandra joined HLD in March 2019 and is based in Milan.

Previously, she worked as an executive assistant for 2 years in Anima SGR and for 9 years in Clessidra SGR.

Alessandra supports the management of the Italian offices logistics, accounting and administration.

Gabriel Fossorier

Senior Advisor

Maxence Gailliot

Director

Grégoire Janet-Maître

Analyst

Gregoire joined HLD investment team in October 2021.

He started his career in Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan in London. He also has experiences in Mergers & Acquisitions at Société Générale CIB and in financial audit at PwC.

Grégoire graduated from Centrale Lyon and HEC Paris with a Master in International Finance.

Salim Helou

Managing Director

Hélène Kiavué

Administrative assistante

Jean-Bernard Lafonta

Founding Partner

Ethel Najmark

Analyste

Ethel joined HLD in May 2022.

She began her career at Deutsche Bank in the M&A and ECM teams in Paris.

She also has over a year of private equity experience with the investment teams of PAI Partners in London and Bridgepoint Europe in Paris.

Ethel holds a Master in Management and MSc. Corporate Finance & Banking from EDHEC Business School.

Constance Laneque

Managing Director

Julia Marc

Associate

Julia joined HLD’s investment team in December 2018.

She has a first experience in Private Equity at Extendam, where she was part of the investment team. Before that she worked in mergers and acquisitions at Edmond de Rothschild Corporate Finance Investment bank.

Julia graduated from the Master 225 in Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering from Paris-Dauphine University.

Julie Le Goff

Associate Director

Alessandro Papetti

Partner

Rémi Perichon

Analyst

Rémi joined HLD’s investment team in 2020.

He has a first experience in corporate M&A within a French industrial midcap company and an experience in mergers and acquisitions at Lincoln International.

Rémi is a graduate of ESDES and earned a specialized Master in Corporate Finance from EM Lyon

Salome Perruchon

Director

Mikael Petitjean

Reporting and Valuation Manager

Antoine Pineau

Managing Director

Anthony Schwab

Financial officer

Anthony joined the group in January 2019.

He has a first experience in the accounting firm LS and experience in accounting within the Intertrust group.

Anthony graduated from ICN Business School in Nancy in Msc Finance, Insurance & Risk Management and has the AMF certification.

Marietta Simonyan

Investor Relationship Manager / AML KYC Officer/ Legal Officer

Marietta Simonyan joined the HLD group in 2019.

She spent 5 years as an executive assistant at Homac Aviation Services, a company specializing in aviation projects in Europe and Africa.

Marietta manages shareholder relations, as well as the management and administration of the Luxembourg offices.
She holds a degree in accounting assistant and a BTS in trilingual management assistant. She speaks French, English, German, German, Russian and Armenian.

Simon Savart

Associate Director

Charles Sun

Assistant director

Charles joined HLD Associés Europe as a Deputy Director in 2021.

He started his career in 2009 as a financial auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2014, he joined the Atalian group. After an initial experience in internal audit, he spent 4 years working with the executive management on all M&A projects of the group.

In 2019, he was appointed CFO of a subsidiary specialized in quality review services in the automotive industry and then finance controller for a IT managed services provider for its EU activities.

Charles graduated from Neoma Business School.

Jean-Hubert Vial

Partner

Davide Vitrani

Associate Director

Davide joined HLD in March 2019 and is based in Milan.

He gained previous experience in M&A, earlier in Mediobanca Group and later in Natixis, where he took part to multiple buy-side advisory projects for corporate and institutional clients.

Davide holds a MSc in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he currently collaborates as assistant lecturer in corporate finance.

Antoine Wehrlin

Associate

Antoine joined the HLD investment team in February 2022.

He was previously a Senior Associate at the Transaction Services firm D’Ornano + Co where he worked mainly for private equity funds.

He also has experience in Transaction Services and Valuation at EY.

Antoine graduated from the Master of Economics and Financial Engineering of the University of Paris-Dauphine.