Joan Perelló Bestard
Chairman of the Board
A Veteran Biotech entrepreneur with 15+ years of management experience in various organizations, as CEO, Non-Executive Director, President or Chairman. He co-founded Sanifit, where he is serving as CEO and has raised over €140M in equity and debt financing and sold it to CSL/Vifor in 2021 for more than 375 M€.
Rodolphe Besserve
Board member

Private Equity Fund Manager at Financière Montpensier-ARBEVEL.

A graduate of EM Lyon, he began his career in 2000 as a financial markets analyst specializing in the healthcare sector at Bryan Garnier, then joined Kepler Cheuvreux in 2004 and Société Générale in 2005. In 2011, he was promoted to Head of ECM/M&A activities for the biotech/medtech sector at Société Générale. In 2021, he joined the investment firm EureKare as a Business Development Officer and Director. A year later, he co-founded EureKing, the first SPAC in the healthcare sector dedicated to bioproduction in France, and at the same time, he joined Financière de Courcelles as a Senior Advisor Healthcare. He joined Montpensier-Arbevel in 2023.

Isabelle Bou Antoun
Board member

Isabelle has significant experience in seed capital. She has assessed and funded more than 40 companies across a wide range of sectors, including software publishing, bio-health, industry, and services.

She began her career at Arthur Andersen in Paris. Currently, Isabelle supports 20 companies, including Adthink Media, Terresens, Qoveo, and FX Solutions. She has also negotiated and completed 20 successful exits with capital gains, including two IPOs.

Isabelle is a Member of the Executive Board of KREAXI, Chairwoman of the Executive Board of RAC I, Deputy CEO of Rhône-Alpes Création II, and a member of the Investment Committee of RAC I, Rhône-Alpes Création II, and ARAC III.

Michel Sazonov
Board Member

Michel spent 15 years as a CFO of a major family office where he was responsible, among other, for running several development stage biotech companies.  He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Sébastien Groyer
Board member / Founder
Sébastien PhD and Biotech engineer. Leading our business strategy, he benefits from nearly 20 years of experience as a venture capitalist and 50 startups financed, and has co-founded 3 startups.
Philippe Gillet
Board member
Philippe Gillet is a professor and scientific advisor for multiple companies. He was previously director of the École normale supérieure de Lyon from 2003 to 2007 then chief of staff to Valérie Pécresse, Minister of Higher Education and Research in the François Fillon government, between May 2007 and March 2010. He still serves today as president of the scientific council of the Île de France region and of INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research).
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