BlackFin Capital Partners
Gerard Compain is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive with extensive experience in technology, consulting, and venture capital. As the Founder and Chairman of the Board at Cadege Technology & Consulting since June 2006, Gerard has focused on incubating start-ups in secured transactions and providing consulting services in these fields. In addition, Gerard established YouTransactor and co-founded GEOLSemantics, specializing in cross-lingual and semantic text mining since their inception. Gerard has held various leadership roles, including Venture Partner at BlackFin Capital Partners, Chairman's Advisor at KICC South Korea, and Executive Chairman at Voxygen. Other notable positions include being a Supervisory Board Member at SKEYECODE and serving as a Director on the boards of AGNITIO Voice ID and RevEurope Payments Ltd. Gerard holds a Master’s degree in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, obtained in 1985.
BlackFin Capital Partners
BlackFin Capital Partners is the leading pan-European Financial Services PE Platform. Our four founding partners: Laurent Bouyoux, Eric May, Bruno Rostain and Paul Mizrahi have worked together as senior executives and entrepreneurs in the financial industry for decades. Altogether the team consists of +35 experienced professionals from several nationalities. Our Buyout strategy invests in financial businesses across continental Europe with high-growth potential via organic growth or acquisitions. BlackFin targets asset-light businesses such as: asset management, institutional and retail brokerage, distribution of insurance and banking products, payments, debt management and collection, fund administration, business process outsourcing, financial technology providers and software editors. Our VC strategy focuses on FinTechs, InsurTechs and RegTechs. BlackFin operates as a controlling investor through majority or minority stakes alongside founders, managers or institutional investors, supporting management teams in taking their businesses to the next level. We transform our portfolio companies via organic growth, improving operating margins and through active buy and build strategies. Transactions have been executed in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Benelux, the Nordics, the Baltics and the UK from our three offices in Paris, Brussels and Frankfurt. BlackFin manages three growth/buyout funds: Fund I (€220m raised in 2011), Fund II (€400m raised in 2016), Fund III (€980m raised in 2019) and a venture fund dedicated to FinTechs, InsureTechs, RegTechs (€180m raised in 2018. We are proud to be backed by a broad and diverse base of global institutional investors. We are ardent believers in responsible investing, who incorporate ESG in our investment and monitoring processes and are a signatory of the UN-PRI. For more on our FinTech strategy, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/blackfintech/