After a highly formative start to my career in the acquisition finance department at Société Générale, I joined Lazard in 2004 as part of the Paris Media team, then helped found Messier Maris & Associés in 2011, where I took charge of the TMT sector.
Over the course of more than 100 transactions, I have built genuine expertise across a variety of sectors (digital media, digital marketing, e-commerce, enterprise software, health and social care). Before joining Cambon Partners, I led the sale of several standout French internet success stories, including Betclic, Doctissimo, Allociné, Dailymotion and CCM Benchmark. I also worked with Europe’s largest media and telecom groups, as well as with the leading private equity players on large-scale LBO transactions.
On every deal, my starting point is the entrepreneur : their story, what makes them unique, their vision for the company and their personal goals.
That is why I joined Cambon in 2016. We shared the same vision of our profession and the same values:
• total commitment, a tailored approach and extreme rigor in executing the mandates entrusted to us
• a very strong sense of responsibility, because we step in at pivotal moments in the lives of our clients and their companies
• a long-term partnership mindset, with a commitment to honesty and candor in the advice we give
• a way of taking our work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously, which our clients and our colleagues appreciate
Our ambition is to build the leading investment bank for growth companies in France. It is an exciting entrepreneurial project, and I am proud to have been part of it.
Our clients have a taste for risk, and in a way, so do I. I often say that the entrepreneurs I have had the privilege to work with passed it on to me.