Independent Director

Paul-Philippe Bernier is a Director and member of the Management Committee of the Large Cap direct investment team of Bpifrance Investissement since 2022. He has more than 15 years of experience in structured financing and equity investment.

He joined Bpifrance Investissement in 2019 as an Investment Director. He has participated to many investments (or reinvestments) for Bpifrance of which the investments in the following listed and unlisted companies: Elis, Exclusive Networks, EssilorLuxottica, SPIE, SRS, Mediawan and Sulo.

Before joining Bpifrance, Paul-Philippe was Director within the structured finance team of Société Générale CIB for 12 years and was based in Paris and in London. He was specialised in the TMT sector from 2014 to 2019.  For Société Générale, Paul-Philippe has completed more than 20 financing operations as Mandated Lead Arranger and Bookrunner, in Europe and Africa, for the account of Private Equity funds and listed corporates. Paul-Philippe started his career as financial auditor for Mazars. Paul-Philippe Bernier is a graduate of Neoma Business School.

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