Pierre is an investment manager at ACP where he focuses on the medtech and healthcareIT sectors. He brings operational experience to our portfolios, having grown and turned around several life science businesses (in biopharma, molecular diagnostics, population genetics and medical foods) and cleantech companies (green fuels, feeds and fibres) in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Over a decade with Avesthagen Ltd, he guided the group's global strategy and European activities, raised US $120 million and led two dozen transactions including acquisitions, joint-ventures and exits. Pierre started his career as an auditor with KPMG in France. He subsequently worked as a financial engineer at Natixis and as a research fellow in environmental econometrics where he focused on water management, health microeconometrics, oceanic resources management and spatial and urban econometrics. Pierre is French and holds an MSc in Environmental Economics (Hons) from Universite de Provence, France and a BSc in Finance & Econometrics (Math Spe.) from Universite Louis Pasteur, France. He also attended executive programs at Harvard, MIT and Stanford. Pierre speaks French, English and conversational German.