Christophe Bavière is co-CEO of Eurazeo since February 2023 and has been a member of the Executive Board since 2021. He was also Chairman and Founder of Idinvest Partners a Private Equity company which joined forces with Eurazeo in 2018 and was fully merged in 2020.
Prior to this, Christophe Bavière held senior positions within the Allianz Group where he managed the investment programs for the group. At Idinvest Partners he successfully developed the investment activities and assets under management grew sevenfold over ten years.
At Eurazeo, Christophe Bavière supervises the Private Debt, Small-mid buyout, Secondary and Venture investment activities. He also supervises the Investment Partners team which in charge of LP relationships.
Christophe Bavière is a Board Member of AFG, the French Asset Management Association.
He was Vice President and a board member of France Invest, a private equity trade association, and served for 2 mandates on the Consultative Commission of the AMF, the French financial markets authority.
He is a Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour, and he is also a Colonel in the French Air Force Reserve.

Professor Oliver Gottschalg is part of the Strategy Department at HEC School of Management, Paris. He holds a Wirtschaftsingenieur Diploma from the University of Karlsruhe, an MBA from Georgia State University and a M.Sc. and PhD degree from INSEAD. His current research focuses on the strategic logic and the performance determinants of private equity investments. His work has been published in leading academic journals and in various publications for practitioners and was featured over 100 times in the business media (press, radio, TV and online) in the past 2 years. His book on ‘Private Equity Mathematics’ is one of the bestselling books with PEI Media. He regularly presents his research at academic conferences and private equity symposia and serves as an advisor to leading investors in the private equity industry. He repeatedly served as an advisor to policy makers at the national and European level in the context of the ongoing debate about a possible need for regulation of the Private Equity industry. His company Gottschalg Analytics is the leading provider of standardized independent PE Track record analytics and validation services, currently advising approx. 20% of the market of fundraising PE Fund Manager worldwide

I am a private equity investor.
I have been investing in Independent / Family businesses for over 20 years, in transmission situations
and buy-and-build projects, mainly cross-border.
At Bpifrance, we promote growth, especially internationally, as it strengthens businesses and help
them last.
I’m in charge of the International Build-up Fund (IBF).
At the IBF, we have a unique approach as we invest abroad alongside French independent
businesses. We actually become directly minority shareholders of the subsidiary abroad (no dilution
of the French company).
We co-invest on the long term (5 to 10 years in general), between €3M to €20M, worldwide, in buy-
and-build or greenfield projects, until the French companies acquire our stake in their subsidiary (no
exit on the market).
If you are a foreign company contemplating an acquisition or greenfield project in France, we also
have solutions for you.
At Bpifrance, we know that French family businesses are a corner stone of the French economy and
that they need to grow abroad.
Bpifrance has a unique tool box to help them grow and therefore last.

Thomas Rajzbaum joined EQT Partners as Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure France in November 2019. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Thomas was a Director at The Carlyle Group, focused on European buyout opportunities. Prior to that he was an Associate in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division in London . Thomas holds Master degree from ESCP Business School and a MBA from Columbia School.