Our team

Nadia Bouzigues
Managing Partner
15 years in industry, M&A and investment consulting

Tristan Eliard
Senior Associate
4 years in private equity

Vincent Deltrieu
Managing Partner
25 years in Private Equity and Industry

Christophe Gégout
Managing Partner
19 year in innovation and corporate finance

Xavier Herrmann
Managing Partner
23 years in audit, M&A advisory and private equity

Nina Hervé
Senior Associate & ESG Director
3 years in private equity

Daniel Javed
Senior Investment Director
15 years in M&A advisory and corporate development

François de La Vigne
Senior Advisor
33 years in private equity

Ania Nguyen
ESG Analyst

Benoît Perrot
Managing Partner
25 years in structured finance and private equity

Alexandre Jammal
Analyst
1 year in private equity

Alexis Touzé
Département finance
6 ans en contrôle financier Private Equity
Join us
Yotta is growing and is regularly looking for talented people who want to participate in an ambitious and meaningful project. We are very attached to our “raison d’être” and our corporate culture. We value enthusiastic and commited profiles with an entrepreneurial team spirit, initiative, creativity, transparency and rigour. At Yotta “we do what we say and we say what we do”.

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.

1 year in private equity
Alexandre Jammal
Analyst
Holding a dual degree from IAE Lyon and a Master’s in Management from ESCP Business School, Alexandre joined the executive team in May 2024 as an Analyst, following a successful six-month internship at Yotta during his gap year.
Prior to joining Yotta, Alexandre gained experience in private equity funds at Tikehau Capital and ArchiMed, as well as in a startup.
At Yotta, Alexandre will support the company’s growth and be involved in the deployment and support of the portfolio companies of Yotta Growth Industry fund.

23 years in audit, M&A advisory and private equity
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.

33 ans en Private Equity
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.

6 ans en contrôle financier Private Equity
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.

25 years in structured finance and private equity
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).

19 year in innovation and corporate finance
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.

4 years in private equity
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.

3 years in private equity
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.

15 years in M&A advisory and corporate development
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).

15 years in industry, M&A and investment consulting
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.

25 years in Private Equity and Industry
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).