Idinvest appoints Gallerne and Guyonnet as managing partners

Sylviane Guvonnet of Idinvest — Sylviane Guvonnet, Idinvest

Francesca Veronesi
16 October 2019

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Idinvest Partners has appointed chief operating officer Sylviane Guyonnet and co-head of private debt strategy Eric Gallerne as managing partners.

Guyonnet and Gallerne are both members of Idinvest's executive committee, which also includes CEO and founding partner Christophe Bavière, and founding partner Benoist Grossmann, as well as managing partners Matthieu Baret, Nicolas Chaudron, François Lacoste and Christophe Simon.

Guyonnet joined Idinvest as CFO in 2000 and in 2010 was appointed as COO. She manages a team of 45 people working in the operations, finance, legal, compliance, HR, IT and general resources departments. Prior to joining Idinvest, she was head of the back- and middle-offices within Allianz Global Investors France for seven years. Before that, she was co-head of the back-office of AIG in France and Dublin.

Eric Gallerne of Idinvest Eric Gallerne, Idinvest

Gallerne has been part of the firm since 2012. Alongside Lacoste, he has contributed to the development of Idinvest's private debt strategy, which today represents €3.4bn in total. He co-leads a team of 21 investment professionals spread across France, Germany and Spain. Formerly, Gallerne was responsible for co-founding mezzanine investment activities at Groupama Private Equity. Prior to that, he spent 10 years leading the acquisition finance department at Fortis Banque France.