The team
SÉBASTIEN
BOUVET-LABRUYéRE
CEO LDI
Sébastien has over 15 years‘ experience both as a private equity investor and an SME manager.
He started his career working on M&A at Citigroup and within the SNCF group (SNCF Participations).
He then joined the Qualium private equity fund (formerly CDC Capital Investissement) in 2005 where he executed and monitored a number of midcap LBO operations.
Before founding LDI within the family group Labruyère, he had been in charge since 2010 of the development of private equity investments of this same group, directly or via funds.
Within the Labruyère Group, he has also led several operations involving the taking over of companies in difficulty, including Mathon (Internet sales of kitchenware), Mathilde Créations (decoration), and Anagram (bulk wine merchant), the turnaround of which he personally led as operational manager.
Sébastien is a graduate of ESCP Europe.
bruno
Donville
Senior Advisor
Bruno has acted as an independent consultant for LDI since its creation in 2017.
He has worked for over 25 years in the business and private equity world.
His career has included taking over a cosmetics SME, before launching in 2001 and heading up for 9 years the investment company, Creadev, of the Mulliez Family Association (a dozen holdings as the majority or reference shareholder, €200 million invested, in close support of the managers).
He then joined the management of Voltalis, from 2010 to 2013, a company that pioneered distributed load shedding, today supported by the Meridiam fund.
Since then, he has been advising and supporting private investors, family offices and managers in the constitution and development of entrepreneurial businesses.
He is also a co-partner of Dealbydeal, a small-cap investor financed by club deals.
Bruno is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the HEC business school.
remy
serafin
CFO Labruyère Group
Remy joined the Group Labruyère in 2018 as Financial Director.
He started his career within the Lafarge group, where he held several positions in finance and strategy for 15 years: operational financial management in the Czech Republic and then in Poland, acquisition and disposal projects in Europe, Africa and Asia.
He subsequently spent eight years with the Imerys group, as financial director of Edilians (Tiles and Bricks) and then of Calderys (B2B refractories), where he supported the transformation and development of the activities (M&A, organisation & HR, performance programmes).
Rémy is a graduate of the HEC business school and of INSEAD’s Executive Program.