Background
Grégoire is an entrepreneur & former investment banker. He is the founder (2007) and CEO of Epsilon Research, a Paris-based research and financial analysis bureau specialized in the private equity and private company M&A markets. He is the co-founder with Anthony Wimbush, and president, of Epsilon Corporate Finance Ltd (independent service provider for corporate finance professionals, 2001) and Epsilon Finance (M&A IT platform and services, 2002). Prior to founding Epsilon, Grégoire worked as an investment manager with a London-based early stage venture fund, Sitka Partners (2000-2001). He previously worked for the investment banking division of Société Générale in Paris and SG Hambros in London (1995-2000). Advising major European groups as well as private firms, he has accomplished complex corporate finance projects (valuations, restructurings, private and public M&A transactions, LBOs) in many industry and service sectors. Grégoire was a lecturer at Sciences-Po for 7 years (2002-2009, Master ‘Finance & Strategy’). He holds an MBA from London Business School (2001) and graduated from Sciences-Po, Paris IX-Dauphine (Masters Degree in Management) and Paris I-Sorbonne (Masters Degree in Philosophy). Speaks: French, English.