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.

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.