Laurel Bowden
83North
Laurel Bowden is a Partner at 83North, formerly Greylock IL. Her past investments include Hybris Software, acquired by SAP in 2013, and JustEat, which filed a successful IPO on 2014. her current portfolio includes BlueVine, iZettle, and Workable.
Bruce Chizen
Permira
Bruce Chizen has been a Senior Adviser to the Permira Funds since July 2008 and became an Operating Partner to Permira in 2018. Former Adobe Systems, Inc. CEO, Chizen’s customer-focused vision transformed the business into one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. Before his time at Adobe, Chizen held leadership roles at Claris Corporation, a subsidiary of Apple Computer Inc., Microsoft, and Mattel Electronics.
Frédéric Court
Felix Capital
Frédéric Court is the founder & Managing Partner of Felix Capital. He has led investments in Farfetch, Zong (sold to eBay), Vitrue (Oracle), Dailymotion (Orange), Qype (Yelp), Fizzback (Nice Systems) and Ubiquisys (Cisco).
Tom Ebling
Former Demandware CEO
Tom Ebling formerly served as the CEO and Chairman of Demandware, a provider of cloud commerce solutions. He led Demandware’s highly successful IPO in 2012, and the acquisition by Salesforce in 2016. Prior to Demandware, Tom held several CEO positions at Lattice Engines, ProfitLogic, and Torrent Systems, Inc.
Scott Friend
Bain Capital Ventures
Scott joined Bain Capital Ventures as a Partner in 2006 after selling the company he co-founded, ProfitLogic, to Oracle. Scott’s areas of investment interest are in disruptive new consumer products and services, retail related technologies, and data and analytics focused application software.
Xavier Lazarus
Elaia Partners
Xavier Lazarus co-founded Elaia Partners in 2003, after having started several other businesses. He therefore brings a founder’s as well as an investor’s perspective to the table. Besides Mirakl, Xavier sits on the boards of Adomik, Criteo, and Tinyclues, among others.
Christian Lucas
Silver Lake
Christian Lucas is a Managing Director of Silver Lake and co-head of the firm’s activities in EMEA. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Silae and of MeilleurTaux, Vice Chairman of the Board at Cegid, and a Board member of Exact, Mirakl, and Global Blue. Before Silver Lake, Mr. Lucas was Head of the Technology Group at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Lucas holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School having graduated before from ESSEC. He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2019.
Alexandre Margoline
Permira
Alexandre Margoline is a Partner and Head of Paris at Permira. He has extensive experience in Healthcare, Consumer and Technology. Alexandre has worked on a number of transactions including Althea, Corin, Creganna, eDreams Odigeo, Exclusive Group, I-MED, Mirakl, NDS, Hana and Vacanceselect. Prior to joining Permira, Alexandre worked at Goldman Sachs Capital Partners (PIA) in London, focusing on Private Equity transactions largely in the telecom and media industries.
Xavier Niel
Kima Ventures
Xavier Niel, is a French entrepreneur and businessman, active in the telecommunications and technology industry. He is best known as founder and majority shareholder of the French ISP Iliad, trading under the Free brand. He is also the founder of the 42 School, as well as la Halle Freyssinet, the largest Startup incubator in Europe.