Julien Deconinck is a graduate of HEC. He is a founding partner of Clermount, a financial advisory firm specialized in impact investing. He began his career in 2002 as an analyst in mergers and acquisitions at Lazard. He then joined the Tarkett Group, where he held several positions in marketing development and project management from 2003 to 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he was a mergers and acquisitions associate at HSBC, then director of equity investments at the investment firm Parcom Capital, and then a director at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking.