Board of Directors

Laurent Vigier

Executive Chairman

Talal Ibrahim Al Maiman

Director

Pascal Lagarde

Director

Benjamin Paternot

Director

Tamim Bassam Jabr

Director

Senior Investment Team

Laurent Vigier

Executive Chairman

Laurent is the Chairman of the Five Capital Executive Committee. He has over 22 years of leadership in senior government (Office of the French President) and investment positions. He has served on the board and the managing committee of Caisse des Dépôts Group (CDC), a leading French public financial institution that manages assets of over €150 billion. Prior to Five Capital, he was instrumental in creating and growing CDC International Capital, a private equity fund dedicated to a direct co-investment strategy with leading Sovereign Wealth Funds and other international long-term investors and served as its Chairman and CEO. He has served as the Chairman of the Board of the Institutional Investors Roundtable, a 40+ members platform of cooperation between global asset owners, leading pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. He has a long-standing practice and expertise in very high-level dealings with emerging markets counterparts, notably in MENA, Russia (served 5 years on the Supervisory Board of the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund) and China. He graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure – Ulm. Graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration and is an alumnus of Harvard.


Olivier Hochstaettler

Managing Partner

Olivier has over 17 years of investment experience across developed and emerging markets with a strong focus on the MENA region. His investment experience spans various sectors including hospitality, financial services, manufacturing, transportation, energy, education, healthcare and real estate. He is a Senior Advisor for M&A and Investments to the Chief Executive Officer of Kingdom Holding Company. Previously, he was a Director in Swicorp Investment Bank covering Saudi Arabia and the UAE and was a Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Switzerland. He was a Teaching Assistant at HEC Business School, University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He graduated from HEC, Business School, University of Lausanne in Switzerland.


Hugo Qermane

Managing Partner

Hugo has over 16 years of investment experience across the United States, Europe and the MENA region. His investment experience spans various sectors including healthcare, technology, industrials, real estate, hospitality, energy, commodities and mining. Prior to Five Capital, he was Managing Director and Head of International Investments at Caisse des Dépôts International Capital where he led their investments in the GCC and with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). He was an adviser to the OECD for the MENA Investment program. He has also served as the Head of Economic Affairs and adviser to the Prime Minister of Morocco. Previously, he served as a Vice President at Sun Capital and BNP Paribas Investment Bank in London. He graduated from Harvard University, Sciences Po Paris and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).


Sofyane Thabet

Principal

Sofyane has over 10 years of investment experience across Europe and the MENA region. His investment experience spans various sectors including energy services, industrials, healthcare, retail, media & entertainment and infrastructure. Prior to Five Capital, he was a Principal at Caisse des Dépôts International Capital. Previously, he was a Manager at Ernst & Young in their Transactions Services practice in Paris. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Sciences Po Paris, and holds a Masters degree in finance and accounting.


Dushyant Sahani

Director

Dushyant has over 8 years of investment experience across South Asia and the Middle East. His investment experience spans various sectors including financial services, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and agribusiness. Prior to Five Capital, he was a Senior Associate in the Special Situations Private Equity team at Samena Capital. Previously, he was an Investment Analyst at IFC (World Bank Group) and an Analyst at Kotak Investment Bank (former JV partner of Goldman Sachs in India). He is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India and holds an MBA from INSEAD.