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I am an Executive Vice-President, part of the Ardian General Management Team, which is responsible for Ardian’s growth strategy. Ardian, a leading private investment house, offers global expertise in Private Equity, Real Assets, and Credit, providing diverse investment opportunities and responding flexibly to our clients’ differing needs. We strategically broaden our offering across strategies and geographies and have recently invested in new areas such as nature-based solutions, semiconductors, and hydrogen. Ardian Customized Solutions creates tailored portfolios for institutional clients, while Private Wealth Solutions serves private banks, family offices, and private institutional investors. Ardian's client-focused culture is built on service excellence and trust, and we leverage our digital and data expertise, including the harnessing of AI, to deliver added value. Ardian's workforce is global, with offices worldwide. Its main shareholding group is our employees, and we place great emphasis on developing our people and fostering collective intelligence. Ardian believes in finance as a force for good, committed to responsible growth, investment excellence, generating superior returns, and serving as architects of lasting change.At Ardian we invest all of ourselves in building companies that last.

Ardian has the world’s largest Secondaries & Primaries platform, with over $92bn under management or advisement. We acquire stakes in high-quality private equity and infrastructure funds from institutional investors, providing a liquidity solution for them before the underlying funds reach maturity. Ardian pioneered the secondary market in the early 2000s and we execute the largest and most complex transactions, with the ability to buy portfolios of interests in funds valued at over $1bn.