Stéphanie Frachet’s biography

Independent Director – Member of the Strategy Committee, of the Governance, Appointments and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, and of the Compensation Committee

Stéphanie Frachet is a Partner of the Flex Equity Mid Market fund at CAPZA, a European private investment platform. She has more than 20 years of experience in finance and private equity.

From 2001 to 2007, she was in charge of audit and transaction services at, respectively, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, working on M&A and LBO transactions. In 2007, she joined the Leveraged Finance team of Société Générale,in charge of LBO transactions for SMEs and large groups. Stéphanie Frachet then joined Bpifrance (formerly Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement) in 2009 where she was Director of Bpifrance Investissement and member of the Management Committee of Bpifrance Capital Développement between 2017 and 2022.

Previously, she was a permanent representative of Bpifrance Participations notably as a director of Eutelsat Communications and Sulo (formerly Plastic Omnium Environnement). She was also a director of Constellium (a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange) and Eurosic and also a member of the Supervisory Board of Sabena Technics Participations, as well as Board Observer of Horizon Parent Holdings (Verallia), Paprec and Diot-Siaci.

Stéphanie Frachet is a graduate of ESSEC Business School.

Stéphanie Frachet is a French citizen and speaks French and English.