French manager Tikehau Capital appoints chief financial officer

Paris-based alternative asset management group Tikehau Capital has appointed Laure Perréard as chief financial officer.

Reporting to Henri Marcoux, the firm's deputy chief executive officer, Perréard will be responsible for developing and implementing the Group's financial strategy. He will be succeeding Le Jan, who is moving to Tikehau Capital's teams in New York with the aim of developing the Group's activities in North America.

From 2015, Perréard worked at Edenred as the Group's controlling director. Prior to that, he worked at the Accor Group for nine years, where she held several positions ranging from head of Group Consolidation to chief financial officer of one of the firm's units. She began her career as a financial auditor at Ernst & Young.

Henri Marcoux, deputy chief executive officer of Tikehau Capital, said: "Laure's experience in a listed company that went through strong geographic expansion is an undeniable asset in the context of Tikehau Capital's growth dynamic. Her arrival strengthens the Group's profile, whose solid financial structure with €2.3bn of shareholders' equity is a differentiating asset in support of the structuring objectives set for 2022."

Tikehau Capital is an asset management and investment group with €22bn of assets under management and shareholders' equity of €2.3bn as at 31 December 2018. The Group invests in various asset classes (private debt, real estate, private equity and liquid strategies), including through its asset management subsidiaries, on behalf of institutional and private investors.

Controlled by its managers, alongside leading institutional partners, the French manager employs more than 430 staff spread across its offices in Paris, London, Brussels, Madrid, Milan, New York, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo.