Bio

Eric May is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of BlackFin Capital Partners. He started his carrer in 1987 as a consultant at Arthur Andersen, specialised in the financial services. Eric rapidly developed a passion for the workings of the securities market and for market access systems. In 1991, he became COO for Natixis Securites, a brokerage firm which became the leading provider of trading and back office services for all online brokers. In 1999, alongside Laurent Bouyoux and Paul Mizrahi, Eric founds the ProCapital group, a regulated investment firm and member of Euronext. ProCapital was involved in two businesses, securities services and, through its subsidiary Fortuneo, online brokerage. The founder successfully grew the business to become the French leader in the sector, combining organic growth and a number of targeted acquisitions. They sold ProCapital (including Fortuneo) in 2006 and Eric oversaw the transition alongside the new management team until May 2008. A French national, Eric is a graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Lille and holds an Executive MBA from ESSEC.