Claude Suard

Claude Suard will be joining Vinci Capital as a Managing Partner in 2014. Claude Suard has been active in Private Equity for 10 years. In 2003 he joined DEFI Gestion SA as shareholdings manager and managed the investments and disposals of two venture capital portfolios. In 2006 he participated in the management buy-out of DEFI Gestion and became a partner in connection with the launch of the venture capital fund Initiative Capital Romandie and the fund DEFI EuroCap III. Mr. Suard also has wide operational and managerial experience, with first of all 6 years in the banking sector at BCV Lausanne, then 5 years with Eurest Suisse SA in Montreux as chief financial and administrative officer, and then 5 years with Compass Group Suisse SA in Kloten as CFO & Deputy CEO.