Management team
The management team consists of five experienced growth capital and buyout investors who combine legal, financial and entrepreneurial skills.
The team works alongside the chief executives of the portfolio companies, especially at key moments in the companies’ development (establishing business relationships, organic growth and acquisitions, financial structuring, initial public offerings, buyouts, etc.).
The team focuses on contributing added-value without ever interfering in the company’s day-to-day management. The responsive, available and dynamic management team plays an active role in researching proposed investment opportunities; it offers its expertise and energy throughout all stages of a transaction. Finally, it becomes actively involved in its investments.
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Hervé Schricke, Chairman of the Executive Board
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Schricke has years of international experience, both in finance and as the head of a company. Up until late 1999, he was a Director and Managing Director of Financière Natexis, a leading European private equity firm, with total portfolio assets of nearly €1.2 billion in all areas of private equity (growth capital, buyout, venture capital, mezzanine financing, etc.). An entrepreneur and business angel, Schricke played a key role in the creation of Meilleurtaux, the first company listed on the Alternext market, as an investor and director, then Managing Director, before focusing on the creation in 2003 of XAnge Capital, a venture capital firm backed by La Poste.
Previously, he worked at Natexis Group / Crédit National, notably as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of CSIA Bank. Before that, he was active as a corporate officer and in capital markets for a leading international bank group.
Schricke studied law and has a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures (master’s degree) in law and a degree in International Law.
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François Cavalié, Member of the Executive Board, Managing Director | |
Cavalié has worked in private equity for 22 years. He began his career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen before becoming a Senior Banking Executive at Compagnie Financière de Suez (1983-1988). He then joined IRDI (Institut Régional de Développement Industriel for the Midi-Pyrénées region) from 1988-2003, where he was the regional delegate for the Aquitaine region beginning in 1999. Historically, IRDI has been a leading regional organization for growth capital and buyouts, and one of the most active, with €100 million in assets under management. Cavalié was also Chairman of the Executive Board of SOCRI (Sud-Ouest Capital Risque Innovation) from its launch in 1999 until 2003.
Cavalié is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and ESSEC and has a Master’s degree in law. He also teaches a course in Innovation Finance and Management at the University of Toulouse.
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Thierry Lopez, Associate | |
Lopez began his career in Mergers & Acquisitions at UniCredit, before joining Crédit Agricole Indosuez, where he became an Associate Director. Since 2000, Lopez has worked in the growth capital and buyout segments, first at Idia Participations then Crédit Agricole Private Equity.
Lopez has a Master’s degree in financial engineering from EM de Lyon and a Master’s degree in Management Science – Banking and Finance from Paris I.
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Magdalena Svensson, Head of Investments | |
A Swedish national, Svensson was active in the development and launch of online banking services at Swedbank, the leading Scandinavian bank. In 2000, she joined ABN AMRO Capital France, and took part in the valuation and monitoring of several growth capital and venture capital investments.
Svensson has an MBA from the University of Göteborg, and a major in Finance from ESSEC.
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Etienne Arlet, Investment Manager
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Arlet joined XAnge in 2004 and took part in the evaluation and selection of several companies, notably in the growth capital sector.
Arlet has a DEA degree in Industrial Economics and Econometrics from Paris I.
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