Laurent Bouyoux

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Biography

Mr. Laurent Bouyoux is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner at BlackFin Capital Partners. His expertise in the formation of companies can be dated to 1986, when he became one of the founders of the Société Générale's derivatives business, in Paris and Tokyo. 5 years later, he became Deputy Head of Global Derivatives (then Global Fixed Income of Société Générale) until 1994. In that same year, he joined the Commerzbank group in Frankfurt. Along with Paul Mizrahi, he became a founder and shareholder of Commerz Financial Products, a subsidiary created to develop Commerzbank's derivatives business in Europe. In 1999, alongside Paul Mizrahi and Eric May, He founded the ProCapital group, a regulated investment firm and member of Euronext, and acts as Executive Chairman of the Management Board. ProCapital was involved in two businesses, securities services and, through its subsidiary Fortuneo, online brokerage. They grew the business to become the French leader in the sector, combining organic growth and several targeted acquisitions. The founders sold ProCapital (including Fortuneo) in 2006, and until 2008 he worked for Aquiline Capital Partners in New York, a leading US private equity firm specializing in the financial services sector, as a Senior Principal. He is graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE).