Trophée de l'Innovation : 2023 edition

Pierre Ernst,
Member of the Executive Board and Corporate Secretary of LBP AM

Pierre Ernst has been a Member of the Executive Board and Corporate Secretary of LBP AM since January 2021. Until the end of 2020, he was Chairman of Candriam France, a member of the Strategic Committee and COO of Candriam Group, a pan-European asset management company, having previously held the position of Head of Risk Control. In addition, Pierre Ernst holds and has held various directorships: IS4F (IBM Group) from 2011 to 2017, Ostrum AM from 2021 to 2022, Iznès, a fintech specializing in fund distribution via Blockchain since 2021. Finally, he has been a member of the AMF's Management and Institutional Investors Consultative Commission since 2017.

Josselin Kalifa,
Chief Risk Officer Group, CNP Assurance

Josselin Kalifa is Chief Risk Officer for CNP Assurances. A Ponts graduate with post-graduate degrees from Sorbonne-Université and Université Paris-Dauphine, he began his career at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, before joining the French Embassy in Beijing, where he was deputy head of economic services in China. He was then appointed Head of the Foreign Trade Division at the French Treasury. He joined the Caisse des Dépôts savings funds department in 2010, where he held a number of positions before being promoted to director of loans and housing. He joined CNP Assurances in 2017 as Director of Steering and Performance, then Director of Investments France for CNP Assurances in 2021, before becoming Chief Risk Officer in 2023.

Stéphane Nières-Tavernier,
Manager-Analyst for Tocqueville Finance

A graduate of HEC and the Centre de Formation à l'Analyse Financière, Stéphane Nières-Tavernier has over 20 years' experience in financial management. He began his career in 1998 at BNP Private Equity (Banexi), then moved to Equity Research at IXIS Midcaps in 2001, before joining EXANE BNP Paribas in 2006. In 2008, Stéphane Nières-Tavernier became European Equity Manager at Montpensier Finance. He joined Tocqueville Finance in 2018.

Thibault Heckman,
Officier de la gendarmerie française, chercheur associé à l'ENS Paris-Ulm, membre fondateur du cercle K2

Doctor in mathematics from the Ecole normale supérieure de Paris (Ulm'18), associate researcher at the ENS computer science department since 2018, researcher at the University of London and Cambridge, external European expert at the European Cybersecurity Agency and founding member of Cercle K2, he is involved in cybersecurity training at the Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale (IHEDN), Université Paris-Dauphine and with initial training students at École Polytechnique. Head of the "Cybercrime" course in the "MSc Cybersecurity & Defense Management" at EM-Lyon Business School. He was awarded the European Researcher Prize by the European Academy of Forensic Science and Technology (ENFSI) and the Cybersecurity Trophy by Cercle K2. He is co-author of the Dalloz Cybersecurity Code 2022.

Géraldine Brasseur,
Investment Director, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale

Géraldine Brasseur has been working in the world of investment and financial markets for fifteen years. After studying in France, China and the United States, she began her career in the financial world with a broker, Oddo Securities, in Paris. After this initial experience, she switched to the institutional investor side at Réunica, where she stayed for 8 years. For the past 6 years, she has held the position of Investment Director at MGEN, working to diversify the asset portfolio and integrate a greater proportion of unlisted assets.

Octave Klaba,
Founder & Chairman of the Board of Directors OVHcloud

Born in Poland, Octave Klaba graduated in engineering from ICAM Lille in 1999, and at the same time created OVHcloud for a very simple reason: no supplier was capable of meeting his expectations! 23 years later, OVHcloud is now the European leader in cloud computing, with 33 data centers on 4 continents, offices in 19 countries, over 2,400 employees and more than 1.6 million customers worldwide. OVHcloud is based in Roubaix, northern France. As Founder and Chairman of the Board, Octave focuses on strategy, R&D and corporate culture. Today, in the face of the American or Chinese giants, OVHcloud represents the alternative in the Cloud throughout the world, promoting SMART products and services: simple and fast to implement; multi-local and close to everyone throughout the world; accessible and predictable in terms of price; reversible, open and interoperable; transparent and responsible. Passionate about open organizations, Octave not only promotes transparency and collaboration within his company, but these elements are also integral to his vision of an open and reversible Cloud. Octave's vision is summed up by OVHcloud's motto: "Innovation for Freedom".

Philippe Tibi,
Chairman of the executive and technical committees of the "Scale-UP Financing" project at the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance

A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and a telecommunications engineer, he is currently leading an initiative on behalf of the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance to finance France's future technology leaders. Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Fonds de Réserve des Retraites (FRR) and Director of Vigie, he began his career at Atos, then joined UBS as Chief Technology Officer, where he held various positions in London and Paris in the technology and markets sectors, before becoming Chairman and CEO of UBS France. Founder of Pergamon Campus, he is a former Chairman of the French Financial Markets Association (AMAFI) and Chairman of the MEDEF Monetary Committee. He teaches strategy and finance at Shanghai Jiaotong Polytechnic and AUEB Athens.

Damien Launoy,
Managing Director of 115K, the LBP Group's innovation fund

A graduate of HEC Paris, a Magistère in Banking and Finance and the Institut de Droit des Affaires at Panthéon-Assas University, Damien Launoy has over 10 years' experience in venture capital and a cross-functional vision of the innovation financing chain in France. As an entrepreneur, early stage VC (Generis Capital) and late stage VC (Bpifrance), Damien Launoy has completed dozens of deals and sat on the board of more than 15 startups. At the beginning of 2022, he joined La Banque Postale as head of investments for 115K, the Venture Capital fund of the La Banque Postale Group. He was appointed Managing Director of 115K in early 2023. Damien Launoy is also a lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique on the subject of venture capital, and a jury/mentor in a number of programs.

Frédéric Tardy,
General Manager, Microsoft France

Frédéric Tardy is General Manager of Microsoft France, and a member of the Management Committee, in charge of the Financial Services entity. 
Frederic has worked in the banking and insurance sector for 30 years. He began his career in operational management at BNP Paribas in Europe, then in the United States. He continued his career within the Group as Global Head of E-Business Personal Finance and CEO of the Silicon Valley Innovation Lab.
He then developed his expertise in the insurance sector at Axa as Group Sales and Marketing Director, member of the Asia Executive Committee, in charge of Digital and Data Science and member of "AXA strategic Venture", then at Zurich Insurance as Group Marketing Director. Most recently, he headed the financial services strategy of PPF (Fintech and Insurtech portfolio of 140 million customers in Asia, Europe and the USA). 
Passionate about innovation, he has been mentoring entrepreneurs via the charity Endeavor.org in Africa and Asia for the past 15 years.

Camille Buewaert,
Head of Impact, Fintech and ESG Talent Programs

After training in international business law and specializing in finance at Dauphine, Camille Buewaert began her career with Société Générale's Financial Security Department. She then joined BNP Paribas in New York, before specializing in sustainable development at HEC Paris. Camille joined the Institut de la Finance Durable in 2020. Now Head of the Impact, Fintech and ESG Talents Programs, she is responsible for coordinating and producing content for the Fintech for Tomorrow Challenge, as well as internal initiatives to promote the development of impact finance and the integration of sustainability issues into finance training courses.

Josée Sulzer,
Director of Financial Affairs and Investments, Dassault

Josée Sulzer est Directeur des Affaires Financières et des Participations du Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault, la holding patrimoniale la famille Dassault.
Responsable de l'allocation d'actifs, Josée Sulzer dirige les investissements pour les actifs cotés et non cotés. GIMD owns a particular prism in the technology sector, and in particular the technologies of pointe. Before joining the group Dassault in 1994, Josée Sulzer occupied the position of European treasurer for the international group insurance AIG.

Patrick Pansier,
Head of Data, Digital & Innovation, LBP AM

A 1997 graduate of L'EERIE IMT Mines d'Alès, Patrick Pansier began his career at Dexia AM in 2001 as Developer, then Front Development Manager for alternative management. In 2007, he was appointed Head of IT Investment & Risk Management for both traditional and alternative asset management. In 2011, Patrick Pansier joined Exane BNP Paribas as Head of IT Postrade, and in 2017 became a member of the Exane Group Architecture Committee, where he was in charge of the operational efficiency project implementing a digital workforce based on robots and unstructured data management systems.
Since 2021, Patrick Pansier has held the new position of Digital, Data and Innovation Director at LBP AM, to take charge of IT and develop digital transformation. Since 2017, Patrick Pansier has hosted round tables at AM Tech day and the BigData trade show. He was a jury member at Fintech For Tomorrow in 2021 and 2022.

Delphine d'Amarzit 
CEO Euronext Paris and member of the Executive Board of Euronext N.V since March 2021

She began her career in the public sector, as a finance inspector, before joining the Treasury's Directorate General and devoting herself to the development of capital markets and corporate financing, as well as to the negotiation of European financial regulations and the international coordination of these issues. Delphine d'Amarzit was economic and financial affairs adviser to the Prime Minister from 2007 to 2009, head of the multilateral affairs and development department from 2009 to 2013 and head of the economic financing department from 2013 to 2015. She then joined the Orange Group, where she was deputy CEO of its mobile banking project, Orange Bank, from its inception to its millionth customer.
Delphine d'Amarzit is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris, a former student of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) and holds a Master's degree in business law.

Rolando Grandi Bustamante, International and Thematic Equity Manager, LFDE

Of Bolivian origin and a graduate in finance from IAE Lyon, Rolando Grandi began his career at Roche-Brune AM as an international equity analyst before becoming co-manager in 2015. Rolando joined La Financière de l'Echiquier (LFDE) in 2017 and became international and thematic equity manager. Passionate about innovation and new technologies, he is currently manager of Echiquier Artificial Intelligence, the first French fund dedicated to this theme launched in 2018 and, since 2021, of the first European fund dedicated to the space ecosystem, Echiquier Space.

Muriel Faure,
President of the AFG Technological Innovations Commission

Muriel Faure is President of the AFG's Technological Innovations Commission. She has extensive experience as a founder and director of portfolio management companies. She is Senior Advisor to Tiepolo, an independent private asset management company, and a member of the AMF College. Muriel Faure is a graduate of ESSEC and SFAF. 

Maïlys Ferrere,
Director of the Large Venture Division, Bpifrance

Maïlys Ferrère has been with Bpifrance since its creation in 2013, where she heads Large Venture, the venture growth fund that supports French tech champions. Prior to this, she was Investment Director at the Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement (FSI), after some 20 years' experience in equity capital markets origination at various French banks. She is a graduate of IEP Paris and holds a degree in business law.

Thomas Rivron,
Investment Director, Abeille Assurances

Thomas Rivron has been Chief Investment Officer of Abeille Assurances since April 2022. He has over 20 years' experience in the insurance, finance and actuarial sectors. Before joining Abeille Assurances, he was head of investment management, ESG and capital management at Natixis Assurances, which he joined in 2014. From 2010 to 2014, Thomas Rivron was part of Natixis' trading room's interest rate and credit activities, where he was responsible for building offers for insurers. From 2006 to 2010, at the BPCE Group's finance department, he was in charge of actuarial and ALM pensions, and administrator of the Caisses d'Epargne pension fund. Previously, he worked in actuarial consulting at Deloitte and Willis Towers Watson between 2002 and 2006. Thomas began his career in London with BNP Paribas' market risk team in 2000. 
Thomas holds Master's degrees in Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Management from Paris Dauphine University.

Antoine Rostand,
Co-founder and Chairman of Kayrros 

Antoine Rostand is the Co-founder and President of Kayrros, a technology-driven analytics company based in Paris. Kayrros is a world leader in satellite in satellite-based environmental intelligence. Kayrros delivers real-time data, providing strategic decision support to governments and companies to help them anticipate the risks associated with climate change, and monitor and influence the influence the evolution of the energy mix. Previously, Mr. Rostand created Schlumberger Business Consulting SBC, an entity of the eponymous and was Chairman of Electronic Data System (EDS) France. Mr. Rostand is a graduate of École Polytechnique.

Elisa Steccaglia,
Investment Director, XAnge

Elisa is an Investment Director at XAnge, where she focuses on Fintech, Cleantech and B2B SaaS. Since joining XAnge in 2021, she has led investments in Bigblue, Neobrain, LegalPlace, Carbonable, Homaio and sits on the board of Silvr and JOIN. Prior to joining XAnge, Elisa worked for six years at Omnes Capital,a French private equity firmShe began her career in mergers and acquisitions in Milan.Of Italian origin, Elisa graduated with honors from Bocconi University, with a master's thesis on credit risk modeling for mortgage-backed securities (MBS).

Gathered at LBP AM and Tocqueville Finance's offices, the winners of the 2023 edition of the Trophées de l'innovation were able to exchange views with LBP AM's management board, the organizers and the members of the jury at an evening reception following the awards ceremony.

The "Trophées de l'innovation 2023" ceremony, hosted by Grégoire Favet, business and financial journalist on Bsmart (media partner for this second edition), began with a word from Emmanuelle Mourey, Chairman of LBP AM's Management Board.

Pierre Ernst, chairman of the jury and member of LBP AM's management board, was on hand to thank the partners, jury members and finalists of this 2nd edition of the Trophées.

AAlongside Grégoire Favet, presenter of the Smart Bourse program, Octave Klaba, founder and Chairman of the Board of OVHcloud, Frédéric Tardy, General Manager of Microsoft France, member of the Management Committee, in charge of the Financial Services entity, and Antoine Rostand, co-founder and Chairman of Kayrros, took part in a round table discussion on the theme: "AI, between digital revolution and energy transition: what hopes and what financing needs over the next decade?"

Maïlys Ferrère, Director of Large Venture Investment at Bpifrance, presented the Finetch of the Year award at the Trophées de l'innovation 2023 to Acheel co-founder Raph Ruimy.

Diane Roissard, LBP AM Biodiversity Expert, presented the Greentech of the Year award at the Trophées de l'innovation 2023 to namR's Managing Director, Chloe Clair.

Elisa Steccaglia, Principal at XAnge, presented the Jury's Coup de Coeur award at the Trophées de l'innovation 2023 to BrainTale co-founder Julie Rachline.

We would like to thank all our partners: Investance Partners, Finance Innovation, Institut de la finance durable, Alpha FMC, B SMART, Microsoft and platform58 , La Banque Postale's fintech incubator. See you in 2024 for the next Innovation Awards!