Venture Capital Team

Brief CV

Antoine Colboc joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity in 2000 as a Partner in the Venture Capital team. In July 2002 he was appointed Head of Venture Capital. Antoine Colboc is a member of the Executive Committee of CroissancePlus. He is aslo a member of France Angels' borads of directors.
 
Graduated in Engineering from the Ecole Centrale Paris, he is specialised in the high-tech field.

Antoine Colboc began his career in 1997 at IBM France in the Marketing and Sales department. In 1985 he joined Europe's leading computer leasing group, ECS, as General Manager of its UK and later its Japanese subsidiaries. He joined Russell Reynolds, an executive recruitment firm in Paris, in 1993 as an Associate Director and was responsible for the IT and telecoms sectors.

He moved into the Venture Capital business in 1999 when he co-founded Netcre@tion, an independent management company specialising in raising seed money for technology companies.

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Christian Claussen joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity in January 2009 as a Senior Partner of the Venture Capital Team. Christian will facilitate access to investment opportunities in Germany and Northern Europe.

Christian holds a European degree in Telecommunication Systems Engineering and is a distinguished graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique (France) as well as the University of Essex (UK) and the University of Karlsruhe (Germany).

Prior to joining Crédit Agricole Private Equity, Christian Claussen was a General Partner with TVM Capital, one of Germany's most longstanding and active venture capital firms. He joined TVM in 1998 and was promoted General Partner in 1999. During his tenure with TVM, Christian focussed on investments in communications, semiconductors, internet and software.

Christian started his professional career in 1990 with Siemens' Communication Networks Division in Munich. In 1994, he was promoted to Product Marketing Director of Optical Networking and became the Business Unit VP of Business Development in 1997. Among other functions, he initiated and led the taskforce that designed the blueprint for Mustang Ventures, Siemens Communications' corporate venture fund which started its extremely successful investment activities in 1999.

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Alexia Perouse joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity in January 2005 as the investment director in the Llife Sciences sector. Amongst other things, Alexia has developed investments in the medical device sector.

Alexia is doubly qualified with an MSc in Neurosciences and an MBA from IAE. She began her career at Chiron Vaccines before joining Parteurop Développement and carrying out operational and strategic assignments for biotechnology start ups. In 1999, she moved into venture capital at Sofinnova Partners where she played an active role in identifying opportunities in life sciences and in making investment decisions.

Since arriving at Crédit Agricole Private Equity, Alexia has in particular followed Biolipox (sold to Orexo in 2007) and Mutabilis (sold to Pharma Omnium International in 2009). She also began in Fovea Pharmaceuticals (sold to Sanofi Aventis in 2009). She set up the medtech portfolio by investing in SuperSonic Imagine, CircuLite, Eos, EyeTechCare, SpineGuard and Stentys. She currently sits on the boards of directors of six companies.

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Renaud Poulard joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity's Venture Capital team in September 2005 as a Partner. He will focus largely on the telecommunications sector.

He graduated from the School of Optics in 1990 and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Renaud Poulard began his career at the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) as a Research Engineer in lasers. He joined SAT in 1991 where he furthered his career as an Engineer and later Project Manager focusing in particular on telecoms networks and data transfer technologies. After the takeover of SAT by Sagem in 1996, he became Head of Programming on optoelectronics equipment and later worked on a business development project on the IT security markets (PKI). In 2001 he was appointed Head of Investments and later General Partner at SPEF eFund (Natexis group).

He currently sits on the boards of directors of ACCO Semiconductor, Scality, 3D+, H2i, Oxatis et Confortvisuel.

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Michel de Lempdes joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity in January 2001. He is a director within the Venture Capital team for the electronics and Internet sectors.

A graduate of ESC Reims, Michel began his career at Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank in New York in the Leverage Finance Sponsor Group where he took part in the structuring of LBO financings and in the creation of a Private Equity fund of funds.

He currently sits on the Supervisory Board or the Board of Directors of Dibcom, Novaled, EVE, Tronic's, Miwoya, Splendia and MonShowroom. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Si Automation which he sold to PDF Solutions.

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Bernard Nabet joined the Venture Capital department of Crédit Agricole Private Equity in September 2005, as an Investment Manager and will focus mainly on the IT sector. Since 2007, he is based in Tel Aviv to develop the fund of fund activity in Israel.

He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications (French engineering school) in Bordeaux and holds a DEA (post-graduate diploma) in Applied Physics and Microelectronics and a DESS (specialised post-graduate diploma) in Business Administration from the IAE (institute of business administration) Paris.

Bernard Nabet began his career as a Research Engineer at France Telecom R&D in the optoelectronic laboratories, and later worked for several years in consulting at Arthur Andersen and later at A.T. Kearney Interactive. He managed many projects in the areas of consulting, design, architecture and deployment of business IT systems.
In 2000, he co-founded Negopartner, a company specialised in "e-sourcing" solutions for SMEs. As CEO, he was in particular responsible for strategic planning, development and financial control. He started working in the field of Private Equity in 2001 when he was hired as a Partner in the Spef eFund structure of the Venture Capital department of the Natexis group.

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François-Xavier Dedde joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity's venture capital team in September 2006.

He holds both a degree in IT engineering from the ESIEE in Paris and a Masters specialised in finance from the Lyon School of Management.

François-Xavier began his professional career in 2004 as an analyst with Crédit Agricole Private Equity's venture capital team. He has also worked with Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank in New York, where his responsibilities included analysis of major North American accounts.

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Bruno Montanari joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity's Venture Capital team as Investment Manager in January 2010.

Bruno holds a a PharmD from the Université René Descartes Paris V and a Masters in Strategic Management from HEC, France.

He began his career in 1999 in London as an Investment Banker in the Healthcare Groups of Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch, before joining the venture capital community first with CDP Capital, and later in 2004 Atlas Venture, where he was a Principal in the Life Sciences team responsible for several European portfolio companies in the biotech and medtech areas as board member or observer.

He currently sits on the boards of directors of 3 companies: Xention, Eos and Poxel.

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Emmanuelle Coutanceau joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity's Venture Capital team in April 2007.

She holds a degree in agronomic engineering from the ENSAR in Rennes, a PhD in Microbiology from Paris VII University and a specialized postgraduate degree in pharmaceutical management from the Paris ESCP-EAP Business School.

From 2003 to 2006, at Pasteur Institute, Emmanuelle Coutanceau managed a fundamental research project on the immunosuppressive properties of a bacterial toxin. Her work led to several international scientific publications. In Crédit Agricole Private Equity, she has been actively involved in several investments. She currently serves as director on the board of Arcarios and as observer on the board of FlexGen, Medisse, ERA Biotech and Complix.

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Xavier BRUNAUD joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity's venture capital team in July 2007 as an associate.

He holds both a DESS (specialised postgraduate diploma) in Banking and Finance Law from Sorbonne University and an MSc in Management from EM Lyon Business School (specialised in Corporate Finance).

Xavier Brunaud began his professional career in 2005 as an analyst with SGAM AI Private Equity's venture capital team. He has also worked with BNP Paribas New York (Corporate and Investment Bank) for 16 months within the Loan & Portfolio Management team (Credit Derivatives area) in charge of Cooke Weighted Assets savings realised through financial products such as Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLO's) and Credit Default Swaps (CDS).

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Cédric Lecureuil joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity's Venture Capital team in September 2011 as a Life Sciences associate.

He holds a PhD in Immunology from Paris VI University and an Advanced Master in Strategy and Management of International Business from the ESSEC Business School. Cédric started his career as an advisor in Innovation Management at Innovaction, a Paris based consulting firm. From 2009 to 2011, Cédric was analyst in the Life Sciences team at Ventech, a venture capital firm.

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Marine Huber joined the Venture Capital team as an analyst in November 2010.

She is a graduate of the Compiègne University of Technology and holds a “Mastère Spécialisé Stratégic Management” from HEC Paris.

Marine Huber has also a first experience in advisory at Bionest Partners and in renewable energy at Credit Agricole Private Equity.