About Yotta

Alexandre Jammal

Chargé d’Affaires

Diplômé d’une double-licence de l’IAE de Lyon et du Master in Management de l’ESCP Business School, Alexandre rejoint l’équipe exécutive en mai 2024 au poste d’Analyste, après une expérience de 6 mois réussie au sein de Yotta lors d’un stage de césure. Avant son recrutement, Alexandre a réalisé des expériences en fonds de private equity, au sein de Tikehau Capital et d’ArchiMed, ainsi qu’en start-up. Au sein de l’équipe Yotta, Alexandre vient soutenir la croissance de la société de gestion et participera notamment au déploiement et à l’accompagnement des participations du fonds Yotta Growth Industry.

Eugénie Cotte

Associate

Charles de Gastines

Analyst

Ania Nguyen

ESG Analyst

Having previously completed a gap year internship at Yotta, Ania joined the team in February 2025 as an ESG analyst to work on the development and implementation of Yotta’s climate, biodiversity, and social ambitions strategy.

She holds a double degree in philosophy and management from Université Grenoble Alpes and Grenoble Ecole de Management. Ania‘s prior experience in sustainable finance includes experiences both in asset management at Meeschaert Asset Management as a responsible investment analyst, and within a civil society structure, at the Sustainable Finance Observatory.

Xavier Herrmann

Managing Partner

Xavier has 15 years of private equity experience acquired at Financière de Brienne (1995-1996 and 1999) and ACE Management (2005-2018). He also worked for ten years in consulting at KPMG (1996-2005): 3 years in the audit department, then 7 years in the subsidiary KPMG Corporate Finance, where he carried out consulting assignments in Paris and London for SMEs.

At ACE Management, he was a managing partner of the Aerofund aerospace funds (approximately €350 million under management). He was mainly involved in expansion and buy-out transactions in the aeronautics, defense and maritime sectors.
Xavier holds a Master’s Degree in Management Sciences (1994) and a Master Degree (DESS) 224 in Banking and Finance (1995) from the University of Paris IX-Dauphine. He is also an auditor of the 70th national session on Defense Policy of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale.

François de La Vigne

Senior Advisor

François compte 33 années d’expérience en Capital Investissement, auprès d’Ouest Croissance d’abord, comme Délégué Général (3 ans), puis pendant 28 ans chez IPO (devenu depuis Crédit Mutuel Equity après l’OPA du CIC) comme Directeur Exécutif, et enfin chez Raise (2 ans, Senior Advisor).

Auparavant, il a travaillé à la Banque Rothschild, au Ministère des Affaires Sociales, et au BRGM.  

Il a réalisé plus de 150 opérations d’Investissement en Fonds Propres dans le Grand Ouest de la France, auprès d’ETI et de PME familiales, en développement et en transmission.

Il est diplômé de Sciences Po Paris, et titulaire d’une Maitrise et d’un DES de Droit. Il est également diplômé de la SFAF.

Alexis Touzé

Département financier

Alexis s’occupe de la partie financière de Yotta Capital Partners ainsi que de ses fonds sous gestion. Il débute sa carrière en 2018 en tant que contrôleur financier chez EMZ Partners, société de gestion indépendante experte en Dette Privée pendant plus de 2 ans. Il rejoint ensuite Equitis Gestion, une société spécialisée dans la gestion de fonds pour compte de tiers. Alexis est salarié de Prodensia, spécialiste de la gestion financière et administrative des sociétés de gestion et des fonds d’investissement, à qui Yotta Capital confie sa direction financière. Il capitalise aujourd’hui sur l’expertise et les compétences acquises lors de ces 2 expériences réussies pour contribuer activement à l’accompagnement et au développement de Yotta Capital Partners.

Benoît Perrot

Managing Partner

Benoît has more than 18 years of experience in private equity: 4 years at Thales Corporate Ventures (from 2000-2004) and 14 years at ACE Management (from 2004-2018), where he served as Managing Partner. Prior to that, he began his career at LCL Grenoble as a corporate credit analyst and then as a project finance account manager (1996-2000).
At Thales Corporate Ventures and ACE Management, Benoît has carried out approximately twenty venture or expansion capital investments, mainly in high-tech industrial companies in the aerospace, defense, security and electronics sectors.
Benoît is a graduate of Rennes School of Business (1994).

Christophe Gégout

Managing Partner

Christophe has a hybrid profile, having been active both in structuring and financing industrial innovation and in investment.
CFO and then Deputy CEO of the CEA from 2009 to 2018, Christophe has backed a number of advanced technology transfers to industry. The CEA is ranked among the world’s leading R&D centers for the number of patents actually used in industrial products. Christophe has led projects in the field of smart manufacturing, digital control of energy systems, batteries, solar, hydrogen, intensive computing, emerging quantum technologies and microelectronics.
As president of CEA Investissement, Christophe has steered dozens of investments, including the investment in Soitec in 2015.
Since 2015, Christophe has been a member of the board of Neoen, France’s leading independent producer of renewable energy.
He is a graduate of Sciences Po, ENSAE and Ecole Polytechnique.

Tristan Eliard

Senior Associate

After spending three years within Essling Capital Growth Equity fund, Tristan consolidates the executive team and will notably participate in the fund’s deployment and in the support of its participations organic & external growth and decarbonation strategies.
Graduated from Emlyon Business School, Tristan joined Essling Capital in 2019 and participated to several investments in software and healthcare companies, with investments in inWebo, a SaaS cybersecurity solution, and Teknimed, a manufacturer of bone cements and substitutes.

Nina Hervé

Senior Associate & ESG Director

Nina has joined the Yotta team in March 2021 as an Analyst, after her end-of-studies’ internship.
Nina previously worked at the Swiss impact fund Quadia Impact Finance, as an Impact and Investment Analyst. She acquired skills in investment analysis as well as impact measurement and monitoring methodologies.
Before that, she fulfiled a first experience at Altios International, an international development consulting firm.
Nina is a graduate from ESSEC (Master Grande Ecole, Corporate Finance Track) and Sciences Po Bordeaux (Master in Risk Management). She also spent 2 years as an exchange student at the National University of Singapore.

Daniel Javed

Partner

As a native German living in France for more than 10 years, Daniel spent most of his career in M&A and in investing focusing on technological and industrial sectors, internationally (France, Europe, USA/Canada, Asia).
After working in M&A specialized on chemicals and materials, Daniel has lead from 2014 to 2020, corporate development activities of several French industrial SMEs, managing acquisitions and financing operations.
Daniel is experienced in cross-border transactions. Daniel has also actively participated in the creation of the corporate venture fund of Socomore Group, “Socomore Ventures”, managing Seed and Serie A investments.
Daniel is graduated with a Master degree in Economics from Maastrich University (Netherlands).

Vincent Deltrieu

Managing Partner

Vincent has been a private equity professional for 20 years, a field in which he began his investment career when he joined Innovacom, then a subsidiary of Orange and a benchmark for technology investment in Europe. He  was there successively a member of the investment teams, partner, member of the management board and managing partner. He was also a managing director of Groupe Turenne, a small cap Private Equity player in France, following the partnership between the two investment companies in 2017.

Vincent has led a large number of private equity growth operations in France and abroad for highly innovative companies with an industrial focus. He has served on more than 20 boards of directors of these companies, which he has successfully accompanied through to their exits in a wide variety of sectors (energy, healthcare, semiconductors, transport, electronics, digital, etc.).

Before becoming an investor, Vincent had an international operational career in environments strongly driven by innovation, whether with major industrial groups (Schneider Electric, Total, Ericsson) or younger companies (Poweo), dealing with R&D issues as well as expansion and strategy.

He regularly works with entrepreneurs and industrial and technology transfer organizations, acting as mentor and advisor on technology transfer.

Vincent has a background in engineering (INP Grenoble, Telecom Paris Tech) and management (Sciences Po Paris).