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.

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 Gegout

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

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.

Daniel Javed

Senior Investment Director

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).

Nadia Bouzigues

Managing Partner

Nadia has more than 15 years of experience combining investment, financial advisory to industrial groups and an industrial career .

She began her career in the French Ministry of Finance and Industry, as an Associate at the French State Shareholding Agency (Agence des participations de l’Etat), then as a Rapporteure  for the Interministerial Committee for Industrial Restructuring (CIRI) during the financial crisis, where she was involved in more than 20 restructurings of small and medium-sized industrial companies in difficulty, and finally as an Advisor to the Minister of Industry’s office, where she was in charge of the automotive industry and restructuring. She then joined Rothschild&Co as a Director, in charge of M&A operations for industrial groups. Nadia then continued her career in the industrial sector, as Director of Strategy and Business Development at Saint-Gobain, Group M&A Director at Zodiac Aerospace where she notably led the group’s acquisition by Safran and took over the operational management of a business unit. She then joined the investment fund Jolt Capital as a Junior Partner.

Nadia is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm). She holds an agregation in Physics and Chemistry, has a Master Degree (DEA) in Physics and Biology and is a Chief Engineer of the Corps des Mines.

Nina Hervé

Associate

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.