We are pleased to announce a number of richly deserved promotions, following an incredibly busy year. Most notably we will be splitting the role of Head of Portfolio and ESG, which since 2015 has been held by Coralie De Maesschalck. From the new year Coralie will transition to be dedicated to ESG full time, reflecting our increased dedication to ESG internally and with portfolio companies. 

Basile Gerber will be promoted to Head of Portfolio. Basile will take over leading the Portfolio, which he has been involved in since joining in 2017. In addition to his daily activities of Portfolio Monitoring, Valuation, Performance Analysis and Fund Financings, and he will now manage the team to deliver quarterly reporting to our investors as well as other portfolio analytics. From her experience as Head of Portfolio, Coralie already has an excellent understanding of the existing portfolio businesses and will remain part of the investment process going forward. 

Amongst Basile’s team, Deniona Kondi and Hugo Perrin have been promoted to Portfolio Associates. Deniona joined Kartesia in April 2019 and has been focused on quarterly reporting, while Hugo joined in July 2019 and has been focused on daily monitoring of the portfolio, fund performance and valuation analysis. Simon Colleu who was a graduate trainee with the team will remain as a portfolio analyst.

Within the Investor Relations team we are promoting Corentin Miralles to IR Associate. Corentin joined Kartesia in 2018 following a six-month internship is involved in client servicing, project management and in developing new partnerships. 

We’d like to congratulate all those promoted in the team during what has been a truly unique year. They have demonstrated real dedication despite the up-heaval and uncertainty in our working conditions. The same can be said for the rest of the team too, and we are grateful for the flexibility and collegiate working environment they have all helped to foster in 2020.