Stéphane Colin joined AfricInvest in March 2016. He heads AfricInvest operations in France. Stéphane started his career in 1998 in London in M&A and LBO Financing, within Chase Manhattan Bank then Lehman Brothers. In 2005, he joined Lazard Bank within their Private Equity Division, which later became LFPI Group, where he spent nine years sourcing and executing LBO transactions (majority and minority equity investments, mezzanine financing) on small and midcap French companies, as well as monitoring portfolio companies. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics.