French-American Foundation France
 

Directoire

Les membres Young Leader (YL) sont indiqués.

garcinMichel Garcin (YL), Président

Diplômé de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, du New York Institute of Finance, et détenant le Certificat de Gestion Financière de l'Université de New York, il est responsable de la formation de cadres à Yaoundé et conseille le développement de ces entreprises des deux côtés de l'Atlantique pour Banexi, entre 1970 et 1975. Il devient ensuite Secrétaire Général de la CEH (LIP), puis Directeur Général développement de la SCOP LIP et coordonne le redressement de plusieurs entreprises en Franche-Comté au début des années 1980, avant d'accepter la fonction de Directeur Délégué de la SCET (Groupe Caisse des Dépôts). Conférencier et entrepreneur à l'EAP, il est également enseignant à Sciences Po et à l'Université de Cergy, et a publié trois ouvrages sur la création d'entreprise, le choix d'orientation professionnelle et l'exportation.

Après avoir rempli les fonctions de Président de la French-American Foundation - France depuis 1997, le Conseil de surveillance le place, en 2003, à la tête du Directoire de l'organisation.

lemoinePatricia Moulin Lemoine, Vice-présidente
Diplômée de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, licenciée en droit, Patricia Moulin Lemoine est avocate depuis 1972. Elle a suivi en 1984-1985 le cycle de droit européen de l'Université Paris I. Elle a donné des cours de droit civil et de droit des assurances à destination des salariés aux Assurances Générales de France de 1977 à 1994 ainsi que des cours de droit social à l'UFR de sociologie de l'Université Paris VIII Saint Denis de 1985 à 1992. Elle a participé au formulaire de Droit Social Francis Lefebvre en 1992 ainsi qu'à l'ouvrage collectif de Michel Foucault « Moi Pierre Rivière ayant égorgé ma mère, mon frère et ma sœur ». Elle est, par ailleurs, membre du Conseil de surveillance des Galeries Lafayette et au conseil d'administration de diverses sociétés.
cdCharlotte Dennery

Charlotte Dennery is CEO of FundQuest, the multi- management of specialist of BNP Paribas Investment Partners, the asset management business of BNP Paribas group. Globally, the FundQuest team comprises over 200 employees, including 48 investment professionals.

From 2004 to June 2009, she was Head of Finance, Development, Strategy and Asset Management for BNP Paribas Insurance, a 100% owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas.

She was responsible for Budgeting, Accounting, Real Estate Management, Investment Management, Asset Liabilities Management, as well as proposing business development strategies and managing mergers and acquisitions for the Insurance business line.

Previous to this position, she served as Director of Corporate Development for the North American Territory where she was in charge of defining business development strategies as well as managing and coordinating M&A activities for the Group BNP Paribas in the United States.

Prior to working in New York, she held the position of Strategy and Development Manager for the Corporate and Investment Bank Department of BNP Paribas in Paris.

Charlottebegan her career in 1991 in the French Finance Ministry. From 1991 to 1993, she was in charge of the analysis and production of French Quarterly Statistics at the Institute for Economic Studies and Research.

Between 1993 and 1996, she worked in the Budget Department and supervised the French Social Security Funds and worked on a new Family Law.

 From 1996 to 1998, she was responsible for the definition and control of two key national budget lines: the Department of the Interior and the Local Administration resources.

Recognized as a Local Authorities specialist, she was named in 2000 as member of the Nation’s Decentralization Committee, headed by former PM Pierre Mauroy and composed of representatives of both Congressional chambers, governors and mayors.

She ended her career at the Finance Ministry in 2001, in charge of the definition and fine-tuning of the French Public Sector compensation policy and human resources strategy.

She graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1988 and earned a Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics and Finance from Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques in 1990.

de gunzbourgVivien de Gunzburg

Mr. de Gunzburg is the founder and Managing Partner of Findercod, which he created in February 2003 to provide financial advisory services in the (i) Corporate Finance (M&A and Financing), (ii) Private Equity, and (iii) Private Banking and Alternative Asset Management areas.

In 2002, Mr. de Gunzburg participated in the creation of Stephens Financial Group, a Mergers and Acquisitions boutique based in New York as a Senior Associate.  SFG is a division of the Stephens Group which belongs to the Stephens family from Little Rock (AK, US), one of America’s most successful investing, operating and banking families. While at SFG, Vivien de Gunzburg worked on the M&A advisory practice, serving clients in the industrial, aerospace, homeland security and life sciences areas.  Mr. de Gunzburg was involved in the Northrop Grumman/TRW $13.4 billion merger and simultaneous sale of TRW Automotive to The Blackstone Group for $4.7 billion. At Stephens, Mr. de Gunzburg also originated and analyzed private equity investment opportunities to the Stephens Group.

Prior to joining SFG, Mr. de Gunzburg was part of the Banking Group of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC in New York.  While at Lazard, Mr. de Gunzburg was, in 2001, dedicated exclusively to Ambassador Felix Rohatyn, and participated in the creation of Rohatyn Associates, where clients included Comcast, HSBC, Suez, Sodexho, LVMH, Publicis, Fiat, Fimalac, United Technologies and Pfizer.  Prior to this assignment, Mr. de Gunzburg was, in 2000, an Associate in the Industrial and Retail Group at Lazard, and in 1998 to 2000, an Analyst in the Lazard Life Sciences Group.  Transactions executed included Pfizer’s hostile acquisition of pharmaceutical Warner-Lambert for $116 billion and simultaneous divestiture of lice treatment Rid to Bayer for $85 million (2001), the sale of engineered nutrition food MET-Rx to Rexall Sundown for $106 million (2000), Hoechst and Rhône-Poulenc merger-of-equals into Aventis for $45 billion (1999), and the sale of the remaining 80% of Pioneer Hi-Bred to DuPont for $7.7 billion (1999).

In 1997, Mr. de Gunzburg worked at Rothschild & Cie. in Paris as an Analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions department advising clients in the industrial, financial, real-estate and technology sectors.  In 1995 and 1996, he worked at Société Générale as an analyst in the Credit Department both in Madrid and in Hong Kong; in 1994 Mr. de Gunzburg worked at Sanofi Beauté in Barcelona; and prior to that, in 1993, worked at Republic New York Corporation (Republic National Bank and Safra Bank) in the Mergers and Acquisitions department in New York.

A French and Belgian national, Mr. de Gunzburg received a MSc. in financial engineering from E.S.L.S.C.A. and a BA with honors from the Institut Supérieur de Gestion in Paris. Mr. de Gunzburg is fluent in French, English and Spanish, with notions of German, Japanese and Russian.

Mr. de Gunzburg is a member of the Directoire of the French-American Foundation (where he founded the Young Fellows program), a member of the General Committee of The Travellers, as well as is the co-CEO of IRO (a med-tech company, developing a machine combining diagnostic and cure), and is the CEO of Vidag (a biotechnology company).

de fouchierLise Hartman de Fouchier
Lise Hartman de Fouchier was born in 1957, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers University and studied two years at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She began her professional career in Washington D.C. as research director and segment producer on American Interests, a weekly foreign affairs program on PBS television. In 1983, she became a Senior Associate/Producer of educational films within the Nuclear Proliferation Project of the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. In 1986, she became Legislative Assistant for foreign and defense policy for Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), where she staffed his legislative agenda on Proliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Foreign Assistance, International Economic and Trade issues. In 1991, she became Staff Director of the Subcommittee on International Operations of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, responsible for authorizing legislation for the State Department, U.S. Information Agency, and Board for International Broadcasting. Between 1993 and 1997, she was an independent consultant based in Paris. Since 1998, she has worked for the French-American Foundation -- France, and since 2003, as a Member of its Directoire. She is co-Producer of the documentary: "The Other Nuclear Arms Race" and author of an essay "Controlling the Proliferation of Missiles" in Arms Control & the New Middle East Security Environment , edited by Shai Feldman and Ariel Levite in 1994.