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The Executive committee defines Antin’s strategic objectives on the basis of the orientations decided by the Board of directors and coordinates their implementation, determining priorities and necessary resources. It consists of the following members:
Alain Rauscher is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, having founded Antin in 2007. He oversees Antin’s development and drives its strategy. Under his leadership, Antin completed six successful fundraises, securing a total of more than €17 billion in commitments from Fund Investors.
Together with Vice-Chairman of the Board and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Mark Crosbie, Alain laid the foundation for growing Antin from one office to the footprint of five offices (Paris, London, New York, Singapore and Luxembourg).
In addition to overseeing Antin’s development and shaping its strategy together with Mark Crosbie, Alain
holds board seats for Flagship Fund III portfolio company IDEX and for Flagship Fund IV portfolio company Eurofiber.
Alain is the Chairman of the Infrastructure Roundtable at Invest Europe (formerly EVCA).
Before founding Antin, Alain was Head of the Oil, Gas and Mining division at BNP Paribas Corporate Finance. Prior to that role, he worked on numerous M&A transactions in various sectors at Lazard Frères and
Lehman Brothers. He began his career with Bain & Company.
Alain received an MPhil in Philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, an MPhil in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University, a Master’s degree in Politics and Economics from Sciences Po and a Master’s degree in Management from HEC.
Mark Crosbie joined Antin at its outset to lead the Company as Vice-Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer alongside Alain Rauscher. Together with Alain, Mark has driven its strategy, overseen the development of the Company and the build-out of the team. Under his leadership, Antin completed six successful fundraises, securing a total of more than €17 billion in commitments from Fund Investors.
Together with Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company Alain, Mark laid the foundation for growing Antin from one office to the footprint of five offices (Paris, London, New York, Singapore and Luxembourg).
Mark currently holds a board seat for Flasghip Fund III portfolio companies CityFibre and Lyntia. He has considerable experience in all key phases of the investment process. Mark was formerly an Executive Committee member and the Director of Corporate Strategy, Development and Mergers & Acquisitions at Centrica Plc. While there he had a long track record of acquisitions and divestments across the United Kingdom, Europe and North America in the energy and telecom sectors, as well as significant exposure to operational issues through his membership of that firm’s Executive Committee, Risk Management Committee and Financial Risk Management Committee.
Before joining Centrica Plc., Mark held senior positions with UBS in London and Peregrine Investment Holdings in Hong Kong, where he managed a team across eight different Asian countries. He is a Board member of the Sutton Trust, a leading proponent of promoting social mobility through education. He is a member of the infrastructure Advisory Board for Cornell University’s infrastructure programme.
Mark graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Accounting & Financial Management and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Mélanie Biessy has been with the Antin Group since the inception of the Company. She oversees all matters related to the Antin Group’s legal, tax, finance, fund administration, compliance and human resources affairs. She guided the structuring and establishment of the Antin Group and oversees the same for the Antin Funds.
Mélanie Biessy previously acted as General Counsel of the Galaxy Fund, a European infrastructure fund. In representing the fund in all negotiations with clients and counterparties, she gained comprehensive experience across a spectrum of legal issues related to infrastructure investing.
Prior to the Galaxy Fund, Mélanie developed in-depth M&A expertise whilst working for the Tax Division of France Telecom. She joined France Telecom from Egis, a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and a leading international engineering company, where she was legal and tax counsel.
Mélanie graduated from Strasbourg University with a Master’s degree in Business Law.
The Board of directors determines Antin’s overall strategy and ensures its implementation, in line with its corporate interest and taking into consideration the social and environmental impact of its activities.
Subject to the powers expressly attributed to the shareholders’ meetings and within the limits of the company’s purpose, the Board addresses any issue concerning the proper operation of Antin through deliberations.
The Board of directors consists of 7 members:
– 3 members of the Executive committee, and
– 4 independent directors.
The Board members represent 5 different nationalities, with 43% female and 57% independent.
Alain Rauscher is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Having founded Antin in 2007. He oversees Antin’s development and drives its strategy. Under his leadership, Antin completed six successful fundraises, securing a total of more than €17 billion in commitments from Fund Investors.
Together with Vice-Chairman of the Board and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Mark Crosbie, Alain laid the framework for growing Antin from one office to the footprint of five offices (Paris, London, New York, Singapore and Luxembourg).
In addition to overseeing Antin’s development and shaping its strategy together with Mark Crosbie, Alain holds board seats for Flagship Fund III portfolio company IDEX and for Flagship Fund IV portfolio company Eurofiber.
Alain is the Chairman of the Infrastructure Roundtable at Invest Europe (formerly EVCA).
Before founding Antin, Alain was Head of the Oil, Gas and Mining division at BNP Paribas Corporate Finance. Prior to that role, he worked on numerous M&A transactions in various sectors at Lazard Frères and Lehman Brothers. He began his career with Bain & Company.
Alain received an MPhil in Philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, an MPhil in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University, a Master’s degree in Politics and Economics from Sciences Po and a Master’s degree in Management from HEC.
Mark Crosbie joined Antin at its outset to lead the Company as Vice-Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer alongside Alain Rauscher. Together with Alain , Mark has driven its strategy, overseen the development of the Company and the build-out of the team. Under his leadership, Antin completed six successful fundraises, securing a total of more than €17 billion in commitments from Fund Investors.
Together with Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company Alain, Mark laid the foundation for growing Antin from one office to the footprint of five offices (Paris, London, New York, Singapore and Luxembourg).
Mark currently holds a board seat for Flasghip Fund III portfolio companies CityFibre and Lyntia. He has considerable experience in all key phases of the investment process. Mark was formerly an Executive Committee member and the Director of Corporate Strategy, Development and Mergers & Acquisitions at Centrica Plc. While there he had a long track record of acquisitions and divestments across the United Kingdom, Europe and North America in the energy and telecom sectors, as well as significant exposure to operational issues through his membership of that firm’s Executive Committee, Risk Management Committee and Financial Risk Management Committee.
Before joining Centrica Plc., Mark held senior positions with UBS in London and Peregrine Investment Holdings in Hong Kong, where he managed a team across eight different Asian countries. He is a Board member of the Sutton Trust, a leading proponent of promoting social mobility through education. He is a member of the infrastructure Advisory Board for Cornell University’s infrastructure programme.
Mark graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Accounting & Financial Management and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Mélanie Biessy has been with the Antin Group since the inception of the Company. She oversees all matters related to the Antin Group’s legal, tax, finance, fund administration, compliance and human resources affairs. She guided the structuring and establishment of the Antin Group and oversees the same for the Antin Funds.
Mélanie previously acted as General Counsel of the Galaxy Fund, a European infrastructure fund. In representing the fund in all negotiations with clients and counterparties, she gained comprehensive experience across a spectrum of legal issues related to infrastructure investing.
Prior to the Galaxy Fund, Mélanie developed in-depth M&A expertise whilst working for the Tax Division of France Telecom. She joined France Telecom from Egis, a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and a leading international engineering company, where she was legal and tax counsel.
Mélanie graduated from Strasbourg University with a Master’s degree in Business Law.
Dagmar Valcarcel is an Independent Non-Executive Director on the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG. She chairs the Integrity Committee and is a member of the Audit and the Remuneration Committees. She is also a Non-Executive Chairwoman on the Supervisory Board of amedes Holding GmbH, a German medical diagnostics company.
Dagmar has been Non-Executive Chairwoman of the Management Board of Andbank Asset Management Luxembourg, S.A., served as a member of the General Council of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund, a Special Purpose Vehicle owned by the Hellenic Republic to stabilise the Greek financial sector and to manage the Republic’s equity participations in Greece’s four systemic “too big to fail” banks. She has been Executive Chairwoman of the Management Board of Barclays Vida y Pensiones, Compañia de Seguros S.A.U., a Spanish life insurance company of the Barclays Group.
From 2015 to 2017, Dagmar Valcarcel was Managing Director, Head of Strategic Resolution, Insurance Operations in the Chief Operating Office of Barclays Bank Plc’s Non-Core division, leading the divestment of Barclays’ insurance operations across Western Europe. Previously, she was General Counsel Western Europe, responsible for the risk management and legal support to the Retail and Business Banking, Wealth and Investment Management and the Corporate and Investment Banking divisions of Barclays throughout Continental Europe.
Dagmar joined Barclays in January 2010 from Terra Firma Capital Partners, where she was a Director in the Legal, Tax and Structuring Team. Prior to Terra Firma, she worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clyde & Co and General & Cologne Re.
Dagmar holds a PhD in Law from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universiät, Bonn/Germany and is qualified in England & Wales, Germany and Spain. She is a Fellow of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Lynne Shamwana is currently a Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit Committee of the West Brom Building Society. She is a Governor of the Southbank Centre and Chairwoman of the Finance and Risk Committee.
She was previously Chief Financial Officer of Virgin Care and has held a variety of senior finance and management roles at Christie’s, Centrica plc, British Gas, Goldfish Bank and Alliance & Leicester plc.
Lynn was also an independent member of the Audit & Risk Committee of the UK Government’s Department for Work & Pensions and Chair of the Women’s Development Board of the Microloan Foundation Charity.
Lynne Shamwana is a chartered accountant and fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Russell Chambers is a career investment banker, with over 35 years of experience advising boards and management teams on strategy and capital raising, as a Senior Managing Director with Merrill Lynch, Investec, UBS and Credit Suisse. Russell Chambers also acted as the CEO of Credit Suisse’s UK business in the late 2000’s and then took a Senior Advisory role with Credit Suisse, until stepping down in 2020.
Russell has had broad exposure to a range of industrial sectors and a long track record of successfully taking a significant number of businesses public. He is a Senior Advisor with Teneo, Bain Capital and ServiceNow – and serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the LSE listed business, GCP Student Living. He is also involved in some privately held businesses, as a founder shareholder, including the Five Guys European rollout. Russell founded Mentore, a mentoring platform aimed at accelerating the career development of women through from executive levels to full board positions.
Russell began his career with Hogan Lovells, where he qualified as a solicitor after reading law at UCL.
Ramon de Oliveira is currently Managing Partner of Investment Audit Practice, LLC, a consulting firm based in New York.
Starting in 1977, Ramon spent 24 years at JP Morgan & Co. From 1996 to 2001, he was Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Investment Management. He was a member of JP Morgan’s Management Committee since its inception in 1995.
Upon the merger with Chase Manhattan Bank in 2001, he was the only JP Morgan & Co. executive invited to join the Executive Committee of the new entity and to exercise operational responsibilities. Between 2002 and 2006, Ramon was an Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia University and New York University (United States).
Until 1st November 2021, he was the Chairman of the Board of Equitable Holdings (EQH) and AllianceBernstein (AB), in New York.
Ramon is a graduate of the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris.
The directors’ diverse and complementary expertise enables regular and active participation in the Board and its 3 specialised committees:
– the Audit committee,
– the Nomination and Compensation committee, and
– the Sustainability committee.
The Audit committee consists of 3 independent directors. Audit committee members must have special expertise in financial and/or accounting matters.
The Audit committee oversees the review of internal accounting procedures. In addition, the Audit committee consults with the statutory auditors and assists the Board of directors in overseeing corporate accounting and financial reporting.
Its main duties are to monitor:
– the process used to prepare financial information
– the effectiveness of internal control, internal audit and risk management systems relating to financial and nonfinancial accounting information
– the statutory audit of the Antin’s stand-alone and consolidated financial statements by the statutory auditors
– the independence of the statutory auditors, and
– the mechanisms and procedures in place to ensure the dissemination and application of policies and best practices, particularly about compliance.
The Nomination and Compensation committee consists of 3 independent directors.
It assists in reviewing and making recommendations to the Board of directors with respect to its compensation and appointments tasks.
Regarding appointments, the Nomination and Compensation committee primarily assists the Board in
– nominating directors and committee members; and
– reviewing the independence of directors annually.
Regarding compensation, the Nomination and Compensation committee primarily assists the Board in
– reviewing and making proposals on the compensation of Antin’ executive officers
– reviewing the method of allocating independent directors’ attendance fees, and
– consulting and making proposals on the compensation for any special assignments conferred upon individual members of the Board of directors.
The Sustainability committee consists of 3 directors.
It oversees the implementation of Antin’s Sustainability strategy, which is built around two core objectives:
– acting as a responsible investor, ensuring that Environmental, Social and Governance matters are incorporated at all stages of the investment cycle; and
– acting as a responsible company, actively working on improving the environmental and social impacts of our corporate activities.
It reviews the strategic direction and priorities of Antin’s Sustainability strategy, monitoring sustainability progress at all levels of the organisation and formulating recommendations on relevant sustainability related matters.
More specifically, the Sustainability committee is responsible for overseeing the implementation of Antin’s Responsible Investment Policy, thereby ensuring that sustainability issues are properly integrated in investment processes and actively managed at the portfolio company level throughout the holding period. It also helps shape policies and practices aimed at improving the environmental and social impacts of Antin’s corporate activities.
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