Wendel Growth

Jérôme Michiels is the Group’s Executive Vice-President and CFO. He is also Director of Wendel Growth, member of Wendel’s Management Committee and a voting member of the Investment and Development Committee. He joined Wendel in 2006. He is a Board Member of Bureau Veritas.

Jérôme joined Wendel at the end of 2006 as Investment Director and was promoted to Director in January 2010. He was appointed Managing Director on January 1, 2012 and joined the Investment Committee at this date.  Jérôme was appointed Executive Vice-President on September 11, 2019, after being appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Wendel group on October 1, 2015.

From 2002 to 2006, he was an Associate at the investment fund BC Partners. Prior to that, he worked as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group from 1999 to 2002, carrying out strategic missions in Europe, particularly in the fields of distribution, transportation, telecommunications and financial services.

Jérôme is a graduate of HEC.

Antoine Izsak is part of the Investment Team in Paris as Head of Growth Equity at Wendel Growth. He joined Wendel in 2022.

Prior to joining Wendel, Antoine worked as a Director for seven years in the Large Venture fund of Bpifrance. He began his career at Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners and then worked at L.E.K. Consulting where he gained experience in strategy consulting.

Antoine holds a Master’s degree in Software Development from Supélec Engineering School as well as a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Paris-Dauphine.

Christopher Witherspoon is part of the Investment Team in Paris as the Leader of the fund investment activity of Wendel Growth. He joined Wendel in 2021.

Prior to joining Wendel, Chris was a Senior Investment Manager at UK-based fund of funds, VenCap International PLC in Oxford. He was also part of the British Business Bank’s venture capital team as Senior Investment Manager, and a management consultant with KPMG in London.

Chris holds an MBA in Financial Management from Manchester University Business School. He also holds an MA in Management from Durham University Business School.

Diane Schiller is an Associate working for the Wendel Growth within the investment team in Paris.

Prior to joining Wendel, Diane worked for two and a half years at Rothschild & Cie in Paris as a Private Equity Analyst.

Diane holds a triple Master in Business Management in Global Economic Transformation & Technology (GETT), in partnership with UC Berkeley in San Francisco and SKK Graduate School of Business in Seoul.