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Cyrille Antignac
Cyrille Antignac the founder and chairman of UBERIS, an Impact Investing firm as well as an advisor to family offices and institutions engaged into sustainable and impact investmen...view moreCyrille Antignac the founder and chairman of UBERIS, an Impact Investing firm as well as an advisor to family offices and institutions engaged into sustainable and impact investment. He is also an author and lecturer in leading universities on the topic of Impact Investing.
Cyrille started his career in 1996 in Project Financing with GIBB International – a major UK civil engineering – and then in Corporate Finance with KPMG Financial Advisory in London. During 8 years, Cyrille contributed to around 30 corporate transactions (M&A and Private Equity), privatizations, IPO, distressed turnaround and fund raising.
From 2006 to 2014, Cyrille engaged into private equity investments in the Mekong region. First, he built an investment firm to help European corporations invest in Vietnam. Cyrille advised transactions for international corporations. In 2007, he was hired by a private equity firm to structure and oversee investments in Vietnam and Cambodia.
After the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, Cyrille returned to Europe where he helped build three investment funds in Agro-forestry and biomass energy, real estate, forestry and impact investing (total AUM : $200m). The later was a $7.3m fund and first emerging impact fund authorized by the UK FCA. On the back of this last achievement, Cyrille started Uberis Capital with a group of social entrepreneurs and investors based in the Mekong region where Uberis Capital became one of the active pioneers.
In 2018, Cyrille launched UBERIS, a “triple bottom-line” return-seeking Impact Investing firm together with Dr. Sov Leang, a highly successful Energy Access entrepreneur. To date, UBERIS has invested in high impact ventures in Off-grid Energy, Solar Pay-Go, Smart Agriculture, C2C digital commerce, Clean-tech, Smallholder Ag, Water Access.
Cyrille is certified in Corporate Finance by the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment in London. He holds a Master in Management and Finance from ESC Tours Grandes Ecoles and the DECF Accounting Degree (French Chartered Accountancy). He performed Doctoral Studies in Management Sciences at Paris-Dauphine University. Cyrille is a BMW Harald Quandt World Young Leader. He is a lecturer at Sciences Po, ESCP Europe, Kedge Business School, Social Entrepreneurship Mentor at the MIT Solve Challenge and former tutor at Oxford University Saïd Business School (SBS).view less