How About Our New Chairman of the Board? You think they have an issue with getting funding when their Director of the board is the president of a Hedge Fund?
- Innoven Partenaires S.A is a venture capital firm specializing in seed/startup, early-stage, later stage, growth capital, and pre-IPO investments. The firm prefers to invest in life sciences, biotechnology, medical, energy, chemistry, information and communications technology, and natural resources sectors. In life science sector it further invests in clinical-stage drug development, medical devices, drug delivery, and development services. In information and communications technology sector the firm invests with a focus in content, software, enabling technology, and infrastructure. In natural resources sector it invests further in exploration and production and renewable energy. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in North America, and European Union with a focus on France, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark. It invests between €2 million ($2.97 million) and €10 million ($14.85 million) in companies with revenues between €10 million ($13.4 million) and €100 million ($134.08 million). The firm prefers to be the lead or a co-lead investor in its portfolio companies. It seeks to hold a Board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm exits from its portfolio companies through an IPO or trade sale within 5 years. Innoven Partenaires S.A was founded in 1997 and is based in Paris, France.
- DFD Select Group Limited is a provider of creation, promotion, marketing and operation of Hedge Funds, Funds of Hedge Funds, and Structured Notes. DFD Select Group Limited was created in 1996 and has been acting as an Investment Manager. Throughout many years the Principals of DFD have been actively engaged in the creation, promotion, marketing and operation of Hedge Funds, Funds of Hedge Funds, and Structured Notes developed together with leading international banks, and Real Estate financial products. DFD acted as a financial advisor to Lyxor Asset Management for a series of guaranteed Bonds issued by Société Générale with a notional value of over $450 million. DFD launched 4 Bonds guaranteed by Crédit Lyonnais and invested into DFD’s Fund of Funds. DFD created and managed the Rubicon Fund, for exclusive investment by BNP-Paribas, a multi strategy Fund of Funds listed and domiciled in Dublin as well as the InnoHedge Fund for investment by Barclays Bank PLC. DFD launched 35 structured notes totaling over $750 million guaranteed by Barclays. As DFD’s mission and first priority is the preservation of client capital, it is now active in the renewable energy business and has a unique portfolio of Photovoltaic plants projects in France through a Joint Venture with the French company Enway SAS.
Mr. David Tucker is a Company Director at Innoven Partenaires S.A. Mr. Tucker is the President of DFD Select Group LLC, New York, the Sponsor of the Dublin reglated Funds. He has more than 35 years experience in the creation and marketing of financial products and real estate investments. Mr. Tucker was instrumental in the organization of Rothschild Bank Unit Trust Division in Paris in 1969. In 1971 he left the Rothschild Group and was one of the founding developers of Propinvest S.A. During those years Mr. Tucker acted as a Member of the Board and as a Managing Director. He is a Member of the Board of DFD Select Group Limited, DFD Select Group Management (Ireland) limited, and DFD Fund of Fund, PLC. Mr. Tucker is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.
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