Strategic committee

Delville Management has a 5-member Strategy Committee:

• Elena Aksenova (MD Banco Santander)
• Dominique Gaillard (President of Armen)
• Michel Hamou (Business Angel and Mentor at the Institut du Mentorat entrepreneurial)
• Jean-Pierre Letartre (Chairman of Entreprises et Cités, EY)
• Jean-Georges Malcor (former General Manager of CGG Veritas, Thalès)

The Strategy Committee determines the strategy of our interim management firm and oversees its implementation. It examines external growth and investment projects likely to influence the business. It brings together experts to examine the appropriateness of the strategic choices envisaged.

MD Banco Santander

Elena has almost twenty years' experience in investment banking. Elena began her career in 2000 at Merrill Lynch in Paris in the M&A and Equity Capital Markets departments. She then worked at Deutsche Bank, first in the M&A team, then in Acquisition Finance Debt Advisory.

Since 2013, Elena has been a senior banker at Santander, in charge of a varied portfolio in the energy, retail, consumer goods, hospitality and business services sectors. Elena brings her skills in structuring and executing M&A and financing projects, her banking expertise and her international vision.

Elena is a graduate of Paris Dauphine University and holds a Master's degree in Financial Techniques from ESSEC Business School.

President of Armen

Dominique Gaillard began his career in 1986 with Pechiney, as R&D Manager, then Marketing and Sales Director of Comurhex, one of its subsidiaries. He then joined Charterhouse France in 1990, where he was a member of the Executive Committee when he left for Ardian. He joined Ardian at its inception in 1997 and helped transform it into a multi-strategy alternative player in 22 years. Dominique Gaillard headed the direct fund activities of this European private equity leader, with US$110 billion under management. He is a graduate of École Polytechnique, École des Ponts Paris Tech, University of California, Berkeley (Master of Sciences) and IAE Paris.

From June 2018 to June 2021, Dominique Gaillard was President of France Invest, the association representing more than 370 private equity, infrastructure and private debt players in France.

Since May 2022, he has been Chairman of Armen, a company that supports the growth of independent management companies by acquiring long-term minority stakes, based on the "GP stakes" model.

Business Angel and Mentor at the Institut du Mentorat entrepreneurial

A computer engineer, Michel has always been an entrepreneur. After setting up his first company straight out of school (sold 6 years later to a major IT services company), in 1995 he co-founded a second ESN, ALTI (1,200 employees, sales €120 million), which was sold in 2013.

Since 2014, Michel has been a Business Angel and advises SME managers.

Chairman of Entreprises et Cités, EY

Jean-Pierre Letartre, originally from Lille, joined the auditing and consulting firm EY in 1985. He helped set up the Lille office in 1986. Promoted to partner in 1990, he developed EY's regional activities and took charge of the growth company market in 1994. In 2008, he was appointed President and CEO of EY for France, Luxembourg and the Maghreb, and in 2017, Managing Partner of the Western Europe and Maghreb region.

At the same time, Jean-Pierre is actively involved in promoting entrepreneurship in France through the Prix de l'Entrepreneur de l'Année and the Académie des Entrepreneurs. In 2007, he co-founded the Citizen Entrepreneurs association, which organizes the G20 entrepreneurs' summit. He is also the author of several books, including "Qu'attendez-vous pour entreprendre?". From 2013 to 2018, he was a member of the MEDEF executive board.

At the end of his mandate at EY in 2019, Jean-Pierre Letartre becomes Chairman of the Alliances Network and the World Forum for a Responsible Economy, reinforcing his commitment to the responsible economy. He also becomes Chairman of Entreprises et Cités (a platform for services and cooperation between entrepreneurs and local players in the Hauts-de-France region), Groupe IRD (a consulting and investment company) and Comité Grand Lille, thus contributing to the economic development of the Hauts-de-France region.

Former General Manager of CGG Veritas, Thalès

Jean-Georges Malcor is a graduate of Ecole Centrale de Paris, holds a Master of Science from Stanford University and a PhD in materials science from Ecole des Mines.

Jean-Georges Malcor spent 26 years with the Thales Group, including more than 11 years in Australia, where he became Managing Director of ADI after its privatization in 1999. In 2003, he joined the Comex of the Thales Group as Senior Vice President, successively heading the naval division of the aeronautics division, then Zone B of Thales International. He joined the CGG Group in 2010 to become Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors until his retirement in 2018. He is currently a Director of Atlas Arteria (ASX Sydney), Fives, Ortec Expansion, and Chairman of Cubik Partners and Halpitec. He advises AlixPartners as Senior Advisor. He has also been Chairman of Corimer since its creation in 2018.