Els Degroote

Els Degroote is an Investment Principal at Alychlo NV, the investment firm of Belgian entrepreneur Marc Coucke.

Prior to joining Alychlo, Els has been active as M&A Partner at EY for ca 6 years mainly focusing on large Private Equity transactions and before that she has worked 16 years at KBC Securities Corporate Finance where she advised many Belgian companies with their Equity Capital Market and M&A transactions. During her 22 years as Corporate Finance and M&A advisor, she has supported many Belgian shareholders and management teams in public and private capital increases as well as IPOs. In addition she advised many Belgian companies in various M&A and strategic projects in a broad variety of sectors and differents size of companies going from start-up to large listed companies.

She holds a Master Degree in Commercial Engineering and has an MBA Financial Management at Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School. She also is board member at Greenyard.