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I provide hands-on advisory and execution support to both GPs and LPs across Infrastructure, Energy Transition, Private Equity, Real Estate, and Private Debt, with end-to-end capabilities spanning fund design, structuring, launch, and capital raising.

For GPs, I act as an extension of your IR/fundraising team, bringing sharp, modular capital formation capabilities (primary and direct).

For LPs, I offer independent advice and execution to unlock liquidity, manage secondaries, and assess GP-led proposals.

For GPs – Fundraising & Capital Formation

🔹 LP Calibration: Mapping 80–120+ relevant LPs (insurers, pensions, DFIs, FoFs, FOs) by ticket, mandate, and ESG—with intro scripts and pacing strategy.

🔹 Fund Strategy Validation: Pre-launch advisory to test appetite and shape a credible roadmap.

🔹 IR Readiness Kit: Decks, DDQ-lite, KPI workbook, SFDR Article 8/9 evidence, data-room checklist.

🔹 IR Cadence Support: LP update templates, CRM trackers, and Q&A follow-up tools.

🔹 Hands-On Introducer: Coordinated meetings from pre-marketing to close, under clean attribution.

🔹 Co-Investment Briefs: 2–3 IC-ready memos to incentivize anchor LPs.

🔹 Continuation/NAV Advisory: Concise options notes for GP-led liquidity tools

🔹 IR-as-a-Service: Fractional, scalable IR coverage for lean teams.

For LPs – Liquidity & Secondaries

🔹 Portfolio Liquidity Review: Identify assets suited for sale, balancing speed, discretion, and value.

🔹 Secondary Execution: Support preparing assets, mapping buyers, and managing process.

🔹 GP-led Evaluation: Independent advice on continuation or tender offers

Background: Ex-McKinsey, ex-Meridiam IR Director (led €500m+ raised, €250m+ secondary, co-invests on €8bn+ capex). Founder of Onwef Partners. INSEAD MBA.

My work is modular, outcome-based, and designed to deliver results without adding internal overhead.

Let’s connect if you’re preparing a raise, assessing liquidity options, or looking to upgrade your IR capabilities.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Onwef Partners
Managing Partner
PRIVATE EQUITY
March 2021 - Today (5 years and 3 months)
Paris, France
Onwef Partners (the "Company") advises mainly investment managers in their product development strategy and capital raising efforts both at fund level (primary) and asset level (direct) and in their secondaries transactions. The asset classes covered by the Company include infrastructure (equity and debt), private debt, real estate and private equity.
Private Equity Capital Raising Real assets Investor Relations Advisory
Meridiam
Investment Director - Investor Relations - Infrastructure & Private Equity Funds
PRIVATE EQUITY
April 2017 - March 2021 (3 years and 11 months)
Île-de-France, France
Key achievements including:
• Execution of a €250m secondary transaction on a 25-year term OECD infrastructure fund with stakes sold to the market at a double-digit premium above Net Asset Value (NAV)
• €350m raised from flagship OECD institutional investors (mostly first-time investors in Africa) and DFIs for the Africa focused infrastructure fund
• Execution of a co-investment on a €8bn capex high-speed line asset in Europe
• Development and launch of the first French unit-linked (UCITS) invested in infrastructure funds and distributed in the French retail market by a European insurance leader
• Design, structuring and fundraising of a first time €500m blended capital fund focusing on resilient urban infrastructures globally.
Investor Relations Real assets Capital Raising Investissement Private Equity
McKinsey & Company
Senior Consultant
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
June 2015 - April 2017 (1 year and 10 months)
Focus on strategy and operations projects in Europe, Africa and North America.

Strategy projects including:
- Organic growth strategy for a leader of insurance and financial services in
North Africa through product diversification, adaptation and improvement of the
distribution model
- Organic growth strategy for a leader of financial services in Nigeria Africa
with a focus on client stickiness and efficiency of sales force management and
support
- Design and structuring of a platform for a public client to incubate start-up
and support the growth of future SMEs regional champions

Operations projects including:
- Emergency procurement programme for a basic material industry player
in North America. Performed diagnostic, identified and implemented cost
reductions (of 30% on avg) on raw materials that prevented factories
shutdown
- Procurement optimization programme for a leader of utilities in Africa on
industrial components and an aerospace industry leader in Europe. Performed
diagnostic, identified and implemented 20% cost reduction
Advisory Conseil en stratégie Procurement Stratégie de croissance Réduction des coûts

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Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris
2015
Master of Business Administration (MBA)

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