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Bernard MAITRE. With a degree from the HEC, Bernard Maître began his career as an auditor with Coopers & Lybrand. After three years as management controller of SMT- Goupil, one of the first French start-ups, he became a co-founder and Managing Director of BLUE SA, a company specialising in local networks and telecommunications gateways, which he sold in 1988. After this experience as an entrepreneur, he joined Banexi, a subsidiary of the BNP group, as Director of lnvestments, where he Iaunched and managed Banexi Ventures, BNP’s Ieading technology venture capital arrn, with around €20 million in capital. He put the Banexi Ventures team together and managed a highly profitable technology portfolio (which included Soitec, Saari, llog, Adi and Digigram), a portfolio which ensured Banexi Ventures‘ staying power and development. Between 1996 and 1998, he Iaunched and managed CDC-lnnovation, a multi-sector venture- capital company with capital of €65 million. The major success stories for whi
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- • 145 investors hold the Venture Partner role in VCSift. Bernard Maître is one of them.
- • 2,833 investors are based in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
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