Team
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Andrés brings 20 years of investment and C-level management experience in growing businesses across multiple geographies. He has advised, invested in, and managed companies through periods of rapid growth, strengthening their management teams and aligning interests via best practice corporate governance. Andrés has a particular interest for companies in the business services and the industrial sectors, their strategies and the people who execute them.
Prior to Transition Capital Partners, Andrés was a Consultant at Egon Zehnder in London in their Private Capital team, supporting investment platforms (funds, family offices) and their portfolio companies. Previously, Andrés was the CFO of Helios Towers Africa, a leading pan-African wireless infrastructure company. Before that, Andres was a Vice President at Helios Investment Partners, an Associate at JPMorgan and an analyst at Óptima, a Madrid-based independent investment bank where he started his career.
Andrés graduated with a MSc Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in Italy.
Andrés is based in Turin where he lives with his wife and four children. When not in the office, Andrés is likely to be skiing (in the winter) or sailing (in the summer) or simply enjoying good company around a delicious bottle of wine.
Edouard has 20 years’ experience of investing and working closely with management teams and companies at all stages of development supporting their growth and expansion. He is particularly focused on businesses in the consumer and industrial sectors and is passionate about the underlying technologies that allow them to build lasting competitive advantages and their importance in supporting our sustainable futures.
Prior to Transition Capital, Edouard was a Director at the Virgin Group, where he headed investments in the telecom and media space, as well as the group’s impact investment strategy. He was previously at KKR & Co as a Principal responsible for Technology and Industrials investments across Europe. Edouard started his career at Credit Suisse First Boston in the Technology and M&A teams.
Edouard graduated with a MBEng, magna cum laude, from Solvay Business School in Brussels, Belgium, and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.
Edouard is based in London where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Outside of work, you will find him running, ski touring, or heading out to the theatre or a music concert.
Philippe brings 28 years of management and operational experience, including 14 years as CEO of two international food businesses. He has overseen the growth, internationalisation and professionalisation of companies, and built a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges these entail. Philippe focuses on companies in the consumer, agro-food and manufacturing sectors. He loves understanding how they build differentiated consumer experiences and leading-edge operations.
Before joining Transition Capital, Philippe was the CEO of Gourmand Pastries, a global producer of laminated dough products, where he oversaw a major transformation of the business including through a strategic realignment, production capacity expansion, optimisation of processes and procedures and global expansion. Before that, he was the founder and CEO of It’za – Mexma Food, an industrial producer of Mexican flat bread. Philippe’s early career was with leading FMCG groups notably PepsiCo, Spadel and Unliever.
Philippe graduated with an MSc in Economics from KU Leuven in Belgium. He also holds an Master Degree in Marketing from VLEKHO in Brussels, Belgium.
Philippe is based in Belgium where he lives with his wife and three boys. He is an avid cyclist and runner; he loves to travel and discover new regions and cultures.
Laurent brings over six years of investment banking experience focused on supporting Belgian SMEs, with a particular emphasis on family- and founder-owned businesses. He has worked closely with entrepreneurs at key inflection points in their company’s development, combining strong transactional expertise with a pragmatic, partnership-driven approach to help them navigate growth and strategic transitions.
Prior to Transition Capital Partners, Laurent was a Vice President at Degroof Petercam in Brussels, where he advised entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, corporates, scale-ups, and private equity investors on more than 30 transactions spanning fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets activities, and broader financial advisory mandates.
Laurent holds a CEMS Master in International Management from UCLouvain and the Universität St. Gallen, as well as a Master in Business Engineering from UCLouvain.
Laurent is based in Brussels where he lives with his wife. Outside of work, he can often be found on the field hockey pitch, skiing in the winter, watching football, or spending time with friends and family.
Niccolò has extensive experience across strategy consulting, investing and entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on industrial and consumer companies. He has advised private equity funds and corporates on more than 30 commercial and operational due diligences and has worked closely with management teams on post-merger integrations, growth acceleration and operational excellence. He is passionate about helping businesses scale sustainably and build lasting competitive advantage, combining capital, strategic and operational levers with analytical rigour, deep business acumen and a hands-on entrepreneurial mindset.
Prior to joining Transition Capital Partners, Niccolò was an Associate Partner at Bain & Company in Brussels, Zurich and Milan, with a focus on private equity and corporate strategy projects across Europe. Alongside his consulting career, he founded two start-ups, gaining first-hand experience in building and growing businesses.
Niccolò holds a PhD in Engineering from KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium, and an MBA from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management in Brussels, Belgium.
Niccolò is based in Milan. Outside of work, you will find Niccolò skiing, sailing, hiking or indulging his passion for motorsport.
