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Valéry
Huot
CDC Innovation
Valéry holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
from Stanford University and graduated from Ecole Polytechnique
in Paris (X90).He started his career in Australia, working in a
joint R&D department with Sydney University on CDMA mobile architectures.
Before joining CDC Innovation, Valéry co-led the Fund-of-Fund
team at Caisse des Dépôts.
Previously, Valéry was co-heading the SME Financing Office
at the French Treasury, with overall responsibility for private
equity market development, SME financing and innovation policy fostering.
He played a leading role in laying the foundations for the creation
of incubators, early stage funds and public fund-of-funds.
Prior to that, Valéry worked for the French Defence Procurement
Agency (DGA), where he was managing the technical team involved
in the governmental telecommunications satellite project Syracuse
III.
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Gilles
RIGAL
APAX PARTNERS
Gilles Rigal holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from
ENSEEIHT in Toulouse and a graduate degree (DEA) in Robotics from
the University of Toulouse.
He started his career as an entrepreneur with the creation of IGL,
a software and services company which was sold five years later to
Thales. He then joined McDonnell Douglas Information Systems where
he became Division manager and Systar, a French-based international
software company where he was successively General Manager for France,
Europe and worldwide operations. In 1995 he joined BMC Software, the
world's 5th largest software vendor, as General Manager France. He
also held the position of Vice President of EMEA marketing and indirect
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Nick Teasdale
Advent Venture Partners
Nick holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics
and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He entered the venture
capital business in 1978, gaining initial experience in investment
management with the National Enterprise Board and in sales and marketing
management at Black & Decker before joining Innotech Investments,
from where he co-founded an expert systems software company. In
1984 he was appointed its full time Finance Director thus closely
involved in its commercial & financial management and its investment
funding. He re-entered venture capital in 1989 when he joined 3i
and then co-founded TriTech Investment Managers in 1992. Nick began
working with Advent in 1996.
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