People
43, President and Director. Nyon, Switzerland.
Mr. le Corre is founder of Nascendo. Previously, Mr. Le Corre was vice-president
with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets AG, where he served as investment banker
and financial advisor in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to that he was an account
manager with Bank of Nova Scotia in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. le Corre holds
a Master's degree in finance and management and a Bachelor of Corporate law
from Paris University, France. He speaks English and French and has working
knowledge of Italian.
66, Director and Nascendo's Company
Secretary. Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Berberat is
co-founder of Nascendo and was a manager
with Alma Capital. Mr. Berberat started his
international career with the UBS in Basel,
Switzerland, followed by a 4-year stay in New
York. He then became a member of the UBS
Swiss Investment Committee in Lausanne,
Switzerland, for 5 years. In 1970 he was hired
by PaineWebber and subsequently became
Senior VP and Manager in Geneva, Switzerland.
In 1992 Mr. Berberat decided to venture out on
his own, and since then has run several
financial companies, and created 3 mutual
funds with Banque Pictet in Luxembourg.
Mr. Berberat holds a Security Analyst diploma
FROM NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF FINANCE
and speaks English,
French, German, Italian and Russian.
40, Vice President in charge of business development.
Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Haddad has served various
companies during the past five years as consultant.
He applied his expertise in management consulting,
business plan development and budgeting. He is the
founder of Sogest Engineering, a company active in
consultancy and coaching of start-ups. Mr. Haddad has
been a technical consultant for Nestle where he
reorganized its maintenance operations. He also
developed a technology transfer concept to add value
for the European Nuclear Research Center ("CERN").
In addition, Mr. Haddad has a 10 years experience as
a consulting engineer for structure computing and
organization of projects in Switzerland. Mr. Haddad
graduated as an engineer from the Federal Institute of
Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland and obtained a
MASTER OF SCIENCE
in management of technology from the
University of Texas at Austin, Texas, and the Ecole
des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Lausanne,
Switzerland. Mr. Haddad speaks French, English,
Arabic and has working knowledge of German.
37, Vice President in charge of finance. London,
U.K. Mr. Darracq was most recently a director
in charge of private equity investment at
INVESCO Europe Asset Management. Mr. Darracq
has 12 years experience in the field of private
equity, Venture Capital investment and corporate
finance in London. Prior to INVESCO, he was a
senior banker at the European Bank and a
Manager at Hill Samuel Corporate Finance (now
Close Brothers). Between 1992 and 2000, Mr.
Darracq was a director of several companies in
which he invested and was responsible for over
US$ 300 millions of investment in a portfolio of
25 established and start ups companies. He is a
graduate of Paris Grande Ecole Institut National
d'Agronomie with a MASTER OF SCIENCE in Biology and
Finance, an individual member of Investment
Management Regulatory Organization and is
fluent in French and English.
28, Associate in charge of finance and
accounting. Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Pidoux
was auditor with Arthur Andersen where he
specialized in industry, finance and
Government Agencies. He holds degrees in
political sciences from the Geneva University
and in International Relations from the
Graduate Institute of International Studies in
Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Pidoux speaks
French, English, German and Italian.
34, Vice President is in charge of IT
development and consulting. Geneva,
Switzerland. Mr. Santander spent 5 years with
Compac, Geneva, a company active in micro
and nano technology. In addition, he has a 5
years experience in network and system
management. Mr. Santander graduated as an
engineer at the Ecole d'Ingenieurs in Geneva, Switzerland. He speaks French,
Spanish, Portuguese and English.
33, Mrs Perrin takes part in the accounting process and solves
administrative issues. Geneva, Switzerland. She studied Economical Sciences at
the University of Geneva.