Malika Abdallaoui
HR Manager

Karim Ammar
Accountant

Karim joined the private equity division of Caisse des Dépôts in 2000 having spent 2 years as accountant in the finance department of Financière Natexis.

DESCF, Master of Accounting & Audit

Marc Auberger
Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officer of Qualium Investissement since 2006, Marc joined the private equity division of Caisse des Dépôts in 2004 as a Member of the Board of Directors of CDC Entreprises. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Sofaris, and COO of Sofaris Région and Biotech Garantie, both subsidiary units of the Sofaris group, which he joined in September 2001. Marc spent two years as Planning Director of the Casino Group and, from 1995 to 2000, held various positions within the Office for Foreign Economic Relations at the Ministry of Economics and Finance. He began his career in 1991 at the Finance Inspectorate.

Marc sits on the boards of Agro Service 2000, Carré Blanc, DGF, Marais, Tournus Equipement and Sogal. Inspector of Finance,

IEP Paris, ENA (1991).

Marie Bal
Assistant

Marie joined Qualium Investissement in 2010 after having worked at Fonds Partenaires Gestion (Banque Lazard) and then at European Capital.

Master in Marketing Management, ESSEC Business School

Nathalie Brown
Secretary

Nathalie joined Caisse des Dépôts as secretary in 2001 for CDC Equity Capital, the midcap investment company

BTS Management assistant

Alexandre Chollet
Financial Controller

Alexandre joined Qualium Investissement in 2011. He previously spent a year with Bioam, then one year with CDC Entreprises and 4 years with iXEN, responsible for fund monitoring.

Masters Degree from Négocia Business School (ICC of Paris), Degree in Physiology and Cellular Biology (Université Claude Bernard, Lyon)

Cyprien Choutet
Investment Director

Cyprien joined Qualium Investissement in 2007. Prior to that he was an associate in the mergers and acquisitions team at Lazard Frères. While at Lazard, he participated for 3 years in numerous transactions for private equity funds as well as for corporates.

He sits on the boards of Genoyer and La Foir’Fouille

ESCP Europe

Paul Costa de Beauregard
Managing Director

Paul joined Qualium Investissement in 2005 from Advent International where he had worked, since 2000, heading sourcing and execution in the telecom, IT, electronics and health sectors. He previously worked as investor for Wendel group for 9 years, including 2 years at BioMérieux and three years at Cap Gemini, both portfolio companies of the Wendel group holding.

Paul sits on the boards of Frères Blanc, Feu Vert and Socotec

Polytechnique (X Telecom).

Valérie Crozet
Corporate lawyer

Valérie joined the private equity division of Caisse des Dépôts in 2000, as a corporate lawyer for the Company Secretary’s office, and later the legal department.

Master of corporate law, DEA International private law (Paris II)

Marie-Christine Delle-Vedove
Secretary

Marie-Christine joined Caisse des Dépôts in 1993, initially at the SCIC unit, then ComDev and Transdev, before joining the private equity unit.

BTS Management assistant

Filipe Dos Santos
Director of Funds Administration

Filipe joined CDC Capital Investissement, the midcap investment company in 2004. Prior to that he spent 2 years as an analyst at Natexis Asset Square, a multi-management subsidiary of Natexis Asset Management.

Master Bank-finance-insurances (IUP), Master of Finance (Paris X)

Michel Edel
General Secretary

Michel joined CDC Participations, the private equity division of Caisse des Dépôts in 1995. Prior to that he spent 5 years as a lawyer specializing in investment operations at the legal and tax division of BNP Paribas group.

DEA Business Law – Financial law (Paris II)

Jean Eichenlaub
Chairman & CEO

Jean joined Qualium Investissement in 2009. Previously, he was Managing Director of European Capital from 2005, where he established the Paris and Madrid offices and participated in investment activities in Germany. From 2000 to 2005, he was Deputy Managing Director of Fonds Partenaires Gestion (Banque Lazard) where he led investments in mid-sized companies in the health, retail and industrial sectors. From 1996 to 2000, Jean was Director in the structured finance department focusing on leverage finance, securitization and distressed debt at Commerzbank in Paris. Jean started his career as a site engineer in the construction industry, based in London and Barcelona.

Jean sits on the boards of Quick, Socotec and La Foir’Fouille. He is also a member of the board of the Executive Committee of Caisse des Dépôts group.

MST, MBA Ecole Nationale des Ponts & Chaussées, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate.

Bastian Emery-Béziers
Investment Director

Bastian joined Qualium Investissement in 2008. Prior to that, he spent one year as a trainee analyst at Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners, then two years in the LBO financing division of Calyon in New York.

Bastian sits on the board of Quick

Master of Banking and Finance (Paris-Dauphine)

Antoine Emmanuelli
Investment Director

Antoine joined Qualium Investissement in 2007. Prior to that he spent six years as a Consultant at Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance, then at E&Y Transaction Advisory Services, where he participated in acquisitions and restructuring operations.

He sits on the boards of Carré Blanc, Tournus Equipement and Sogal.

Master of applied economics (Paris-Dauphine), Master of Business Management Service (IAE Aix-en-Provence)

Francine Franchineau
Accountant

Yonel Génin
Director

Yonel joined Qualium Investissement in 2005. He began his career as a credit analyst at Crédit Lyonnais, then Arcis Finance, an independent fund of funds company. In 2000, he became an associate at Abenex Capital (formerly ABN AMRO Capital).

Yonel sits on the boards of Frères Blanc and Feu Vert.

Master of Corporate Finance (Paris-Dauphine)

Thomas Gousseau
IT Manager

Thomas joined Qualium Investissement in 2010. He was previously a system and network administrator at Neurones IT for four years, then IT manager at European Capital for two years.

DUT Information technology

Sandra Hilcenko
Funds Administration

Sandra joined Caisse des Dépôts in 2001 as an assistant at CDC Innovation, the venture capital investment fund, before joining Qualium Investissement in 2006.

BTS Management assistant

Julie Khayat
Associate

Béatrixe Lafore
Executive Secretary

Béatrixe joined Caisse des dépôts in 1987, starting with C3D, then Sinerg and ComDev, before joining the private equity division in 1995.

BTS Management assistant

Catherine de Lavalette
Director

Catherine joined the private equity division of Caisse des Dépôts in 1999 as General Secretary at CDC Services Industrie, the small cap investment fund of CDC. She previously worked for 8 years as head of administration and management control at Financière Natexis. Catherine is in charge of compliance, internal control and communication.

History (Sorbonne), Master of Management (Sorbonne Business School)

Arnaud Linxe
Investment Director

Arnaud joined the private equity division of Caisse des Dépôts in 2001 as an in-house legal advisor, before becoming investment director. He began his career in 1997 as an associate within the private equity firm created by Nexter in Abu Dhabi. Later he pursued a career as a attorney-at-law specializing in M&A at the offices of Bignon Lebray & Associés.

Arnaud sits on the board of Marais.

Master of Finance (Sorbonne Business School), CAPA, Master of Business and Tax law (Bordeaux), LL.M – Master of Laws (Warwick)

Martin Massot
Chief Financial Officer

Martin joined the private equity division of Caisse des Dépôts in 2001. He began his career in the accounting firm Patrick Viguié & Associés, with clients principaly involved in finance and private equity.

DECF

Samira Mehtaj
Secretary

Samira joined Caisse des Dépôts as secretary in 2003 for CDC Capital Investissement, the midcap investment company

BTS Management assistant

Rudolf Mouradian
Deputy Managing Partner

Prior to joining Qualium Investissement in 2005, Rudolf was Investment Director at Advent International, from 1999, where he specialized in the chemical, construction materials, industrial services and distribution sectors. He spent two years with Lafarge Peinture where he was manager of the Spanish and Benelux subsidiaries, also covering the strategy division for the group. Earlier, Rudolf worked for 3 years for consulting and strategy firm CVA in Paris and London. He began his career in 1990 at Rhône-Poulenc where he was a sales manager in France and abroad.

Rudolf sits on the boards of Quick and Genoyer.

Polytechnique, MBA Insead.

Nicolas Mutschler
Associate

Nicolas joins Qualium Investissement in 2012.

He previously spent three years as a consultant for the Advancy strategy consulting firm, and then two years as a project manager in the strategy / development department of Compagnie des Alpes.

Nicolas sits on the board of DGF.

HEC.

Jacques Pancrazi
Managing Director

Before joining Qualium Investissement in 2009, Jacques was a Director at European Capital since 2005 where he co-launched the Paris office with Jean Eichenlaub Prior to that, Jacques spent 5 years with Fonds Partenaires Gestion (Banque Lazard) where he was responsible for the management and monitoring of the investment portfolio. Jacques began his career as an auditor at PwC in 1988, he was later Director of finance for Invensys (automotive parts) in France from 1993 to 1998, then for Primagaz’s (LPG distribution) international operations from 1998 to 2000.

Jacques sits on the boards of Frères Blanc, Feu Vert, Genoyer and THOM group (Marc Orian – Histoire d’Or).

MSTCF (Paris-Dauphine), DESCF

Boris Podevin
Director

Boris joined Qualium Investissement in 2008. Prior to that he was an analyst at Banque Worms, then associate at Mezzanis, Director at Mizuho, and finally vice president in the leveraged finance team of Morgan Stanley in London for two years.

Boris sits on the boards of Frères Blanc, Socotec, Quick and La Foir’Fouille

DESS Economic science (Paris I)

Nathalie Rebours
Secretary

Nathalie Roux Devillas
Accountant

Nathalie joined the private equity division of Caisse des Dépôts in 1997.

BTS Accounting

Antoine Schricke
Associate

Antoine joins Qualium Investissement en 2012.

He previously spent two years in London, as an Analyst with the LBO financing teams of BNP Paribas and then Barclays Capital, before joining Vestar Capital Partners in Paris, where he was a Partner for three years.

HEC.

Stéphane Vermot-Desroches
Director

Stéphane joined the private equity division of Caisse des Dépôts in 1995. He has participated in the investment of successive fund vehicles targeting small and mid cap companies during periods of transition and development. He began his career as an associate at Financière de Brienne.

Stephane sits on the boards of Agro Service 2000 and DGF.

ESTP, ESSEC Masters