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At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Paris based CFO’ operating in the Venture Capital space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Christelle Pariat
CFO of Partech
Christelle Pariat joined Partech International Partners as CFO in January 2013. She is in charge of firm-related finance and tax matters. Prior to joining Partech, she spent 11 years at Arthur Andersen (1999-2004) then at Ernst and Young (2007-2012) in Paris as an auditor and a consultant in the Asset Management Department. She also worked at Ofi Asset Management, a French Asset Manager over two years (2004-2006) where she was in charge of audits, compliance and internal controls (organization, legal and accounting issues, investment process) for the 3 subsidiaries (multi-management, wealth management, venture). She holds a Master in Finance (IAE Lyon III & University Lumière Lyon II) and she is the French equivalent of a Certified Public Accountant.
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About Partech: Partech is a technology venture firm that invests in seed, venture, and growth stages.
Benoit Savattier
Managing Director & CFO, Europe of Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures
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About Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures: TotalEnergies Ventures is TotalEnergies’ venture capital arm focusing on climatech start-ups.
Catherine Couet
Chief Financial Officer, France of Astorg
Catherine Couet joined Astorg in 2005 and is a member of the Corporate Functions team. Prior to this, Catherine spent 17 years at Suez Group, where she successively was Financial Controller at Suez Corporate and Deputy Manager of the Financial Planning and Control Division at Suez Environnement. Catherine graduated from ISSEC-ESSEC Group.
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About Astorg: Astorg is an independent private equity group with over €8 bn of assets under management.
David Shu
Chief Financial Officer of Quadrille Capital
David is the CFO of Quadrille Capital. He previously worked for eight years for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young where he was a Manager specialized in audit for private equity and hedge fund structures and securitization. David is a graduate of ESC Lille, majoring in Audit and Finance & Controlling.
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About Quadrille Capital: Quadrille Capital is an independent private investment firm based in Paris and San Francisco.
Guillaume Ploton
CFO of Idinvest Partners
Guillaume Ploton joined Idinvest Partners in 2005 and is Chief Financial Officer of the venture-capital unit. Prior to this, He worked 3 years at Viventures Partners and Alven Capital in Finance Department. He started his career in 2000 as co-founder of DayByDay, an independent research boutique. Guillaume holds a business school degree from ESSEC (2000) and a History Degree from Sorbonne Paris IV.
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About Idinvest Partners: Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle market segments.
Nicolas de Loiray
CFO and Partner of Idinvest Partners
Nicolas de Loiray joined Idinvest Partners in 2007 as Financial Controller of the Funds of Funds unit. Prior to this, Nicolas worked in Audit for three years with the Aplitec Group, in different domains such as legal, intern and acquisition audit. Nicolas holds a business school degree from the Lille graduate school of management as well as a Master Degree in Finance from the University of Lille.
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About Idinvest Partners: Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle market segments.
Sabine Mathis
Partner and CFO of BlackFin Capital Partners
Sabine Mathis, Equity Partner and CFO at BlackFin is responsible for investor relations and portfolio financial monitoring. She joined the firm in 2011 and was promoted Partner in 2016. She started her career in 2002 at Ernst & Young, as a financial auditor and transaction advisor for major industrial companies and investment funds. From 2008 to 2011, Sabine Mathis was Chief Financial Officer of Natixis PE International (€1.3 billion of Assets under Management). A French national, Sabine is a graduate of HEC Paris.
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About BlackFin Capital Partners: BlackFin Capital Partners is a fully independent private equity and venture capital firm focusing on Financial Services.
Emmanuelle de Roux
CFO of Ventech
Before, Emmanuelle was the Corporate Secretary in NPEIM in 2007 and had responsibility for finance, legal, tax and middle/back office matters. From 2001-2007, Emmanuelle served as a Corporate Secretary to DWS Investments, the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank, France. Emmanuelle began her career in 1988 at CCF (now HSBC Group) as a Controller, before joining the asset management business in 1992, where she served within both Controlling and Tax & Legal departments. Emmanuelle is graduated from ESC Rouen and holds a Master of Management Control from Paris Dauphine University.
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About Ventech: Ventech is a European & Chinese early-stage investment fund that invests in the digital economy.
Laure Perreard
Chief Financial Officer of Tikehau Capital
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About Tikehau Capital: Tikehau Capital Advisors, entrepreneurial company asset management company.
Charles Rousset
CFO of Serena
Charles joined Serena Capital in 2013 as a Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Serena Capital Charles was Senior Manager at Ernst & Young (EY) in audit and transaction services. During 9 years within EY, Charles worked as a legal auditor for companies in several industries such as media, internet, oil, gas and consumers products. He also participated in financial due diligences on several companies, start-up or mature companies, for investment kinds and corporate firms. In that context and among others, he worked on the asset swap of leboncoin.fr and lacentrale.fr between Schibsted ASA and Spir Communications in 2010 as well as the acquisition of Pret d’Union.fr by Schibsted Classified Media in 2013. He gained deep experience in all aspects of the financials of start-up and growing companies and had the opportunity to work on several issues that could face entities in which Serena Capital is used to invest in. Charles graduated from Brandeis University with a MA in International Economics and Finance and holds a BA in Management Sciences from Paris IX Dauphine.
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About Serena: Serena Capital caters to technology companies with seed, early, and later stage venture investments.
Louis Sutre
CFO of CapHorn Invest
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About CapHorn Invest, IAE Bordeaux: CapHorn Invest is a French VC firm investing in B2B digital companies.
Mathieu Bourdie
Chief Financial Officer of ODDO BHF Private Equity
Mathieu Bourdie joined ACG Capital in 2012. Previously, he worked for the private equity companies VPSA, in Paris then Mercapital and Altamar in Madrid. He began his career in 1999 as co-founder of the C6Bon start-up before joining the Ernst & Young audit team. Mathieu holds an International Executive MBA from the IE Business School as well as a DESS in Management of Technology and Innovation in Dauphine.
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About ODDO BHF Private Equity: ODDO BHF Private Equity (formerly ACG Capital) is a management company dedicated to Private Equity.
Emmanuel Perez Duarte
CFO of Elaia
Emmanuel began his career as an economist at Exane BNP Paribas, before joining Renault, first as an audit senior manager, and then as an ALM manager. Prior to joining Elaia, he contributed to the launch of Unilend, the French pionneer in crowdlending, before leading the Financial & IT department of the Vranken-Pommery Monopole group.
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About Elaia: Elaia is a venture capital firm that focuses on European digital and deep tech startups investing from early-stage to growth development.
Sonia Pélisson
CFO of Singular
Sonia Pélisson is the CFO at Singular.
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About Singular: Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.
Guy Canali
CFO of Iris Capital
Guy joined the team in 2011. He is responsible for finance, accounting, administration and logistics of the management company and of the funds under management. He is also the compliance officer of Iris Capital. Before joining the team, Guy was the CFO of Développement & Partenariat, a private equity management company based in Paris, specializing in turnaround and growth equity. Prior to that, Guy was CFO of various companies active primarily in publishing and marketing, notably Médimedia, Vivendi Universal Publishing (healthcare division) and Vivactis.
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About Iris Capital: Iris Capital is a European venture capital supporting entrepreneurs at seed, early, and later stage.
Marie Dessaint
CFO & Compliance officer of Iris Capital
Marie joined the team in 2017. She is CFO and Compliance Officer, responsible for the back-office of Iris Capital. Prior to joining Iris Capital, Marie was Chief Administration Officer for Actility, an industry leader in IoT infrastructure and Smart Grid applications, where she was overseeing all finance, administrative and human resources. Beforehand, she was leading the Financial, HR and Administration department of an online private sales start-up and also worked at Galileo Partners, a VC funds manager, heading the back-office. Marie holds a master’s degree in Management from the University Paris-Dauphine (France) and a master’s degree in International Business and a master’s degree in Translation and Interpretation from ISIT (Paris, France).
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About Iris Capital: Iris Capital is a European venture capital supporting entrepreneurs at seed, early, and later stage.
Patrick Mouterde
Partner and CFO of PAI Partners
Patrick joined PAI in 1998 as a member of the Finance Team, and became Chief Financial Officer in 2006. He started his career at Arthur Andersen as a Manager in the Audit Department where he spent eight years. Patrick graduated from HEC in 1989 and holds a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Comptables et Financières (DESCF). His French and English are fluent, and he is conversational in German.
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About PAI Partners: PAI is a major European private equity firm and is the largest private equity investor in France.
Cecile Tirbonod
Chief Financial Officer of Aster
Prior to joining Aster Capital in 2010, Cécile was a senior auditor at Deloitte. There, she executed external audit services for middle-sized companies from all kind of sectors. The engagements related to audits of financial statements, including reviews of quarterly financial information, audits of internal control over financial reporting and other attest related services. Previously, Cécile had worked as an assistant in the finance and accounting department of BASF in South Africa. Cécile graduated from Sciences Po, a selective university in Paris where she specialized in finance and corporate management, and also holds the Diplôme Supérieur de Comptabilité et de Gestion. Cécile is in charge of financial and compliance aspects for the two funds under management.
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About Aster, Aster Fab, INVEEST: Aster is a Venture Capital firm, partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers.
Marie-Astrid Auriol
Partner and CFO of LBO France
Marie-Astrid Auriol joined LBO France in 2003. She started her career at Mazars where she was an auditor in the banking sector. In 2001 she joined AXA Private Equity where she was responsible for the financial control of FCPR and FCPI (French investment vehicules). Marie-Astrid holds a degree in Agricultural Science and graduated fromis a graduate from ESCP Europe Business school.
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About LBO France: LBO France is a private equity firm that supports French and Italian companies in their growth.
Alyson Greenwood
Chief Financial Officer, Switzerland of Argos Wityu
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About Argos Wityu: Argos Wityu is an independent European private equity group supporting management buyouts of medium sized companies.
