Apax Partners & Cie

Apax Partners & Cie in Paris has appointed Bruno Candelier, Guillaume-Olivier Dore, Olivier Morali, Alexandre Scherer and Thomas de Villeneuve to the team as investment directors.

Since 2000, Candelier has been at BODY iQ Ltd, a start-up which he co-founded, which operates in the UK and South Africa. Prior to that he had been at McKinsey as a consultant, working in France and the UK. He will be part of the LBO team at Apax.Dore, who will focus on business development in LBO situations for Apax, joins the firm from IBM Global Financing where he was banking manager for France, Belgium and Luxembourg and created the mergers and acquisitions department of the banking arm. But prior to that, he had been at 3i since 1997, where he had worked at the Paris and Birmingham offices, before establishing the Lyon office, which was the first regional office for 3i in France. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Olivier Morali and Alexandre Scherer, meanwhile, will be additions to the life sciences team at Apax. Morali has spent his career mostly in research and later at Arthur Andersen as a consultant and auditor. Scherer founded Zefer in 1997, which was formed to offer advice on internet strategies, but he was previously a business analyst at Beaufour-Ipsen, itself the subject of the largest ever French private equity deal.The final addition to Apax Partners in Paris is Thomas de Villeneuve, who will join the team concentrating on the media. He began his career at Boston Consulting in Paris, where he worked in sectors such as hotels and energy. He then joined the mergers and acquisitions department at Crédit Lyonnais Securities in London, before joining the Boston Consulting Group in New York.

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