Bio

Alexis Caude is a Managing Partner at Adenia. Based in Mauritius, he oversees numerous investments made in the Indian Ocean, East Africa and South Africa. Alexis is as a serial entrepreneur, finding particular success in creating and growing digital businesses. He founded and chaired the Executive Board of NEWSWEB, a leading online publisher that went public on the Paris Stock Exchange (Euronext) in 2006 and was subsequently acquired by the LAGARDERE Group. He has also founded and co-founded two other digital businesses that he grew and eventually sold to two strategic players, achieving superior returns to investors. Following the sale of one of these businesses, Alexis reinvested in 2010 the proceeds to co-found VALUESTATE, a European-based hospitality group that now owns 15 midscale hotels in major cities in Europe. Alexis is Chairman of the Board of Kanu and Red Lands Roses and serves on the Board of Quick Mart, ABL and Herholdt’s. Alexis formerly served as an Officer in the French Navy Seals and holds an MBA (1998) from Harvard Business School.