Bio

Sophie Paturle-Guesnerot is a co-founder of Demeter Investment Managers. She has a long experience in private equity acquired with BTP Capital, Crédit du Nord and Société Générale before co-founding Demeter in 2005. Demeter IM is a pioneer and leader private equity firm in the ecological transition in Europe. Previously, Sophie worked as an auditor at PWC. Sophie is also a board member of the CNRS and IFP Energies Nouvelles research institutes, and Hexaôm, a listed Midcap, as well as of several of Demeter’s portfolio companies, such as Aledia, Avidsen, Gireve, Instant System. She is also chair of the Ecological Transition Commission of France Invest and has served as a board member, and Ambassador for France 2030, a plan to support innovation, industrialisation and research launched by the government in 2021. Sophie is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris; she holds a Master’s degree in economics and a DECF. She is a Chevalier of the National Order of Merit and a Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honour.