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Valerie Daoud Henderson
Head of Europe Environment Group
Prior to joining FourWinds in 2007 where she supervises private equity investments in the Environment sector, Valerie was a partner at BGAM, a London and Paris based €2.5bn hedge fund, in the fundamental analysis team with a particular focus on special and risk arbitrage solutions (both public and private equities). She began her career in 1991 at Morgan Stanley in London in M&A and then in New York as a buy-side analyst in the proprietary trading department, specializing in equity risk arbitrage. In 1999 upon returning to Europe, she was a senior portfolio manager at CPR (a subsidiary of Credit Agricole) and IXIS-AM (now Natixis) where she supervised the launch of several hedge funds from scratch with a particular focus on European equity-based strategies. She has managed over €500mm, returned non-leveraged ROE net to investors of average 15%/year over 10 years (98-07). Valerie is a graduate of the ESSEC business school in Paris. Valerie holds several board seats: Waterleau Group NV, In-Pipe Technology Inc., Bluewater Bio Intl (Observer). |