Management Committee

David Darmon is Wendel’s Group Deputy CEO since September 9^th 2019. He joined Wendel in 2005.

In December 2020, Wendel’s Supervisory Board decided to reappoint the Executive Board for a period of four years from April 7, 2021 to April 6, 2025.

David has led numerous investments for the Group. He participated in the investment and oversight of companies such as Allied Universal, CSP Technologies, Deutsch Group, and Stallergenes. David also initiated several investments in the technology sector.

David opened the New York office (Wendel North America), which he led from 2013 until September 2019, when he joined the Executive Board. From 2013 to 2019, Wendel invested approximately $1 billion in the United States. David previously served as Wendel’s corporate Secretary to the Supervisory Board.

Before joining Wendel, David was a Director of Apax Partners in Paris, where he specialized in LBO transactions for six years. He began his career in M&A at Goldman Sachs in London.

He is a graduate of ESSEC and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Caroline Bertin Delacour is General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. She joined Wendel in 2009, first as the Head of Legal Affairs. She is also a member of Wendel’s Coordination Committee.

Before joining Wendel, Caroline was an Attorney at the law firm August & Debouzy, where she dealt with Mergers & Acquisitions and corporate law from 1998 to 2009. Prior to this, she was a Tax Lawyer at Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton from 1988 to 1998.

Caroline is co-author of “Highs and Lows of Modern Finance” (Eyrolles, 2013) and author of “Sovereign Wealth Funds: these new actors of the global economy” (co-published Eyrolles – Les Echos, 2009), for which she received the Turgot New Talent Prize in 2010.

Registered at the Paris Bar between 1990 and 2009, she holds an LLM from New York University (1987), a master’s in Taxation from the University Paris V René Descartes (1985) and a master’s in Business Law from the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas (1984).

She is a Knight of the French Order of Merit.

Benoit Drillaud is the CFO of Wendel and leads the financial and accounting team. He is a member of the Management Committee.

Benoît joined Wendel in 2004 as Accounting and Financial Operations Officer and was appointed Deputy Director of Accounting and Financial Affairs in 2007. In 2013, he was promoted to Deputy Chief Financial Officer.

Prior to joining Wendel, he has worked as an auditor for PriceWaterhouseCoopers for 5 years.

He holds a Master’s degree in finance from ESCP and a DEA in economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Anne-Sophie Kerfant is Tax Director. She is also a member of the Coordination Committee. She joined Wendel in 2024.

After graduating from the Law Faculty of Paris II and Paris Dauphine, Anne-Sophie worked for 30 years in international law firms, where she acquired cross-disciplinary tax expertise. These experiences enabled her to advise clients as diverse as CAC 40 groups, private equity and turnaround funds, family groups and start-ups on structuring their investments, M&A operations and restructuring, including in the area of insolvency proceedings.

Before joining Wendel, Anne-Sophie worked at Shearman & Sterling for 13 years, then joined Orrick Rambaud Martel in 2007, where she has been a Partner since 2009. Anne-Sophie was Head of Orrick Rambaud Martel’s Paris Tax Department for 11 years and was Managing Partners of the Paris office for 5 years.

Alexina Portal is the Director of Human Resources and General Resources. She is a member of the Management Committee. Alexina joined Wendel in 2020.

Alexina’s arrival is part of Wendel’s plan to transform the HR function. She focuses her skills on turning the HR function into a competitive strength. Her role includes both redefining HR procedures and implementing specific projects in recruiting, training, diversity, employer branding as well as quality of life at work and organizational culture. Alexina works with the Executive Board in supporting portfolio companies.

Since 2004, before joining Wendel, Alexina has acted as Transformation Programs Director for diverse organizations in sectors as varied as manufacturing (plastics, packaging, cabling, cosmetics, agri-food), services (auditing, communications, consumer goods) and IT systems (software companies, distributors, advisory services). Prior to that, she served as an internal auditor, as well as education services director and marketing and communications director for Oracle’s PeopleSoft division.

She is a graduate of INSEAD (IEP) and has a doctorate in Organizational Behavior.