Brief CV
Marc Benchimol was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of Mezzanis SA in November 2002.
As well as holding an MBA from the HEC business school (ISA), he also graduated from the Ecole Centrale Lyon in Engineering and from the Centre des Hautes Etudes de la Construction in Civil Engineering.
Marc Benchimol began his career in 1982 as a Project Engineer in the nuclear industry, and went on to manage a scientific software team at Framatome.
In 1990 he joined Crédit Lyonnais where he pursued his career in investment banking. For six years he worked on consultancy assignments in mergers & acquisitions, long-term financing deals and corporate finance for manufacturing, services and property companies. In 1996, he became Senior Manager in the Leveraged Finance department, arranging senior and mezzanine financing for LBOs of all sizes.
In October 2000, Marc Benchimol joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity as Senior Partner for the LBO fund and worked in private equity for two years.




