Paris, Île-de-France, France
Audacia is a Private Equity firm with a consolidated AUM of 500 m€, active in three asset classes designed for entrepreneurs along their lifecycle : venture capital in deep tech, development capital and real estate
Motivated to create something new in the field of PE, I took the opportunity, with 2 key persons from RB and 3 investors desiring to spin-off, to setup an original concept of a fund backed with strategy advisors allowing to offer more services to participations : B&CAPITAL, small cap LBO fund, transforming SMEs into mid-caps thanks to the active partnership of Roland Berger partners, managing currently a first fund of 217 m€ and a second fund raising up from 200 to 300 m€
The management of the Paris office was given to me and another managing partner in a difficult moment, in order to re-dynamise its dynamic. Results have been buoyant and the office had never been so dynamic when I left the position early 2022
After having created the activity in France, which ever since stayed the global cornerstone, and having enlarged the practice first to UK and Germany, I created the Global Investor Support Group, first recognised as such in 2012. It developed to ten further countries and sky rocketed its development up to becoming the largest activity of the firm globally
Originally recruited in Consumer / Retail, I had the opportunity to create from scratch the Investor Support practice which went from one project in Paris to the largest practice of the firm worldwide and by far the largest within the Paris office, and a key cross-roads for all partners aiming cross-sectorial collaborations Upon partner nomination in July 2005, I also accelerated the development of the Consumer / Retail practise until It became the largest sectorial activity of the Paris office