Stéphanie participates in the search for investment opportunities, especially in France. She began her career in the Treasury department of the Ministry of Finance, then worked at the Agence des participations de l’État, the agency that manages the French government’s shareholdings, where she was in charge of the government’s investments in SNCF and SNCM and of the Eurotunnel restructuring. She is a graduate of Polytechnique, Corps des Ponts et Chaussées, and the Paris School of Economics.

Board member of Bureau Veritas and member of the audit committee.

Board member of IHS Towers. 

Adam has a B.S. in Management from Binghamton University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.  

Board member of Crisis Prevention Institute.

She began her career at J.P. Morgan as an investment banking Analyst and then Citi Private Equity as an Associate. Harper holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

Board member of Crisis Prevention Institute.
Member of Wendel's Supervisory Board as employee representative.

Jérôme joined Wendel at the end of 2006 as Investment Director and was promoted to Director in January 2010. He was appointed Managing Director on January 1, 2012 and joined the Investment Committee. From 2002 to 2006, he was a chargé d’affaires with the investment fund BC Partners. Prior to that, he worked as a consultant in the Boston Consulting Group from 1999 to 2002, carrying out strategic missions in Europe, particularly in the fields of distribution, transportation, telecommunications and financial services. He is a graduate of HEC.
 
Director of Bureau Veritas and Stahl.

He is a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure in (Fontenay / Saint-Cloud) and HEC.

Board member of Constantia Flexibles, Cromology.

Félicie graduated from ESCP Europe in 2003 and started her career at Goldman Sachs on the firm's French M&A team between 2003 to 2006. In 2007, she then joined the Wendel Paris investment team as an Associate. 

Since then, she has been involved in several transactions including Deutsch, Helikos, Saham and Stahl. 

Félicie relocated to the United Kingdom in 2016 to contribute to the opening of the London office, an office which she later headed.

In September 2019, Félicie has been promoted Executive Vice-President. Since September 2020, Félicie has joined the Paris investment team in line with the Group's strategy to concentrate its teams in France, Luxembourg and New York.

Board member of Stahl. 

Jérôme began his career at Boston Consulting Group during eight years, developing expertise in operational transformation and turnaround, mainly in the healthcare and industrial sectors.

In 2010, Jérôme joined Schneider Electric and took-on leadership positions in Purchasing then in Sales & Business Development. In 2016, Jérôme was appointed CEO of John Paul (sold to Accor), a Concierge services operator supported by an advanced digital platform.

Jérôme graduated from CentraleSupélec in 2002 (Master of Sciences).

Board member of Cromology and Constantia Flexibles. 

As part of his functions, he is in charge of Bureau Veritas and Stahl, respectively as Board member and Chairman of the Board. 

Claude Ehlinger was previously deputy CEO of Louis Dreyfus Company. He has been appointed interim CEO of Louis Dreyfus from June 2014 to October 2015.
He joined Louis Dreyfus Company in 2007 as Chief Financial Officer after serving three years as Group CFO at Eutelsat. Prior to this he was Regional Controller of Cap Gemini, Group CFO of CCMX (1999-2003) and Managing Director of Finacor (1987-1999), a large brokerage company in Europe. He began his career in 1985 at Thomson Group. He is a graduate of the French business school HEC.

Claude is Board member of Trief Corporation SA and of Winvest Conseil (Luxembourg).

In 2007, Bruno joined the investment team of Wendel in Paris as Senior Associate. Since 2013, he has been based in Singapore where he is in charge of M&A and business development support to the Group’s companies, cross-border co-investments, as well as investment origination and execution in Asia. 

He has been involved in several transactions including Helikos, Stahl and Nippon Oil Pump. He has been a member of the Board of Stahl. From 2009 to 2013, he was the Secretary of the Executive Board of Wendel.

Bruno began his career at Bain & Company in the Private Equity and TMT practices in Paris, London and Brussels. He then joined the China-centric business accelerator Asian Business Bridge as Vice President in Hong Kong and Shanghai, where he raised funds and developed the Asian operations of several European SMEs.

Bruno graduated from ESSEC Business School and holds an MBA from the Rotterdam Erasmus School of Economics.

Before joining Wendel in 2013, Mel served as the Chairman of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP for 18 years and was a partner in the law firm’s Corporate Department. He serves as Vice Chair of the Legal Aid Society and on the Columbia Law School Dean's Council and the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors. Mel also serves as executive advisor to venture capital firm Marker LLC and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a member of the United States European Command Advisory Panel and a former member of the United States Southern Command Advisory Panel. Mel is Vice Chairman of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and served on the Defense Business Board of the United States Department of Defense. He is a recipient of The Jewish Theological Seminary Simon H. Rifkind Award, the Legal Aid Society's Servant of Justice Award and the Fund for Modern Courts John J. McCloy Memorial Award. Mel received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD and MBA from Columbia University.

Board member of Crisis Prevention Institute.

He had begun his career at Fuji Bank, initially in cross border M&A in Tokyo and subsequently in project finance in Tokyo and in London.

Makoto Kawada also held positions at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group in Washington DC, where he worked initially in Syndications and subsequently as Investment Officer in the Oil, Gas & Mining department. He returned eventually to Mizuho Securities in Tokyo, where he had been involved in turnaround and private equity fund businesses.

Makoto Kawada graduated in Economics from Waseda University and obtained an MBA from the Wharton School, as well as an MA from the School of Arts & Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.

He had previously worked at Neo Investment Partners, a small and mid-cap LBO fund based in London as well as at HSBC in financial accounting in India.

He graduated from ESSEC Business School and has a degree in law.

Board member of Cromology.

Prior to joining us, Xavier worked at BC Partners for 8 years as a Principal. He started his career as an Analyst at Merrill Lynch. 

He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique with an Engineer’s degree in Economics and in Applied Mathematics. He also holds an MSc in Corporate Finance and in Quantitative Finance from ENSAE.

Prior to Macquarie, Jamie graduated cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Distinction.

Member of Crisis Prevention Institute audit committee. 

She started her career as an Equity Research Analyst at Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux. Then, Constance worked for six years in London, as an M&A Analyst for the investment bank Moelis & Company and as an Associate for EQT Partners.

Constance holds a MSc in Management from EM Lyon Business School.

Prior to joining Wendel, Elisa worked at the Estin & Co as a Strategy Consultant. In previous years she completed internships at Quadrille Capital, Ardian and BNP Paribas.
Elisa holds a degree in Management from HEC.

Prior to joining Wendel, Allison Fong worked for three years as an investment banking analyst for RBC Capital Markets in New York.

Allison holds a Bachelor in Science in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.

After an internship at Total Energie Gaz as a financial controller, he had a series of experiences as an Analyst: fisrt in London for Tikehau Investment Management, then back in Paris at Technip and Artemis – Financière Pinault.

Prior to joining us, Andrew worked at J.P. Morgan as an Investment Banking Analyst for 3 years.

Andrew graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University in New York, with a degree in Applied Economics and Management. 

Prior to joining Wendel, Minjia worked as a research Analyst for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington and Brussels. She also worked for two years as an Associate consultant for the consultancy Bain & Company in Los Angeles.

Minjia holds a B.S in Mathematical and Computational Sciences with honors in International Security Studies and a B.A in French Studies from Stanford University.