Bio

Bruno Rostain is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of BlackFin Capital Partners. His extensive expertise in asset management was acquired from his experience as an institutional investor, on behalf of clients’ life insurance and from his five years as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Aviva Asset Management. He also has a strong international culture, having worked for an international group since 1994 and having spent a year with Commercial Union’s US subsidiary. Bruno Rostain began his career in the French civil service before holding from 1992 to 1998 operational positions and then senior management positions in general insurance companies (Abeille Assurances then Commercial Union Assurances). From 1999 to 2003, he headed Aviva’s life insurance business, raising assets under management from €25 to 35 billion and consolidated earnings to €100 million. In 2003, Bruno became Chairman of Aviva France’s Management Board. During that time, he supervised, managed or co-managed various distribution channels for insurance or financial products, including tied agents, general or specialist brokers, salaried networks, as well as retail banking (partnership with Crédit du Nord). He was responsible for restructuring both back office operations including overhauling the management systems, and distribution networks including the merger of general insurance brokerage activities after Commercial Union’s acquisition of Groupe Victoire. From 2000 to 2006, as Chairman of the Management Board for Aviva France, he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ProCapital where he met Laurent Bouyoux, Eric May and Paul Mizrahi. A French national, is an engineering graduate from the Arts et Métiers, a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and a graduate of the Corps des Mines school of science and technology.