Partech appoints two partners

Malekzadeh joins the venture team as general partner alongside Nicolas El Baze in San Francisco, Philippe Collombel and Jean-Marc Patouillaud in Paris, and Olivier Schuepbach in Berlin. His appointment highlights the firm's intention to strengthen its transatlantic foothold and to boost activities in the Bay area. Partech's San Francisco office invests in US tech companies mostly.

Malekzadeh has 20 years' experience in various executive sales, marketing and operations roles for both large and startup companies. He also co-founded and successfully sold two startups.

Emmanuel Delaveau's mission will be to strengthen investor relations and structure the investment firm's growth strategy and business development initiatives.

Over the past nine years, Delaveau developed CNP Assurances' private equity activities, which grew from €1.5bn to more than €6bn in assets under management. He has also served as a member of the selection board for the HEC Entrepreneurs Master's programme. He started his career in Silicon Valley before returning to Europe, where he co-founded two start-ups.

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