Celine Piquemal Prade
CEO
Céline has over 20 years of industry experience and was formerly a Management Commitee Member and Team Manager for Global Equities at Comgest where she built the global business into a key franchise before leaving in 2019. She spent 16 years at Comgest developing the Global Strategy as a portfolio manager first and the lead from 2008. The flagship funds she managed were Comgest Monde, Comgest Growth World and Comgest Growth EAFE Plus. The assets under management for the strategy jumped from €233M in 2008 to €3.2bn at the time of her departure. Celine began her career in London as an analyst at Morgan Stanley before joining McKinsey as a consultant. She graduated from the HEC business school in Paris with a major in Finance.
Céline is also an Advisory Committee member for World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva as well as for Fondation Apprentis d’Auteuil in Paris.
Vincent Houghton
Managing Director
Vincent has more than 30 years of investment and banking experience, principally in Asian and global markets. Vincent joined Comgest in 2009 as a Portfolio Manager for Asian equities in Hong Kong. After a few years collaborating with Celine on different Asian stocks present in the global funds, Vincent officially joined the global team in 2012. Vincent actively participated in the success of the global strategy as a co-lead portfolio manager together with Celine for more than seven years before leaving the company at the end of 2019. Vincent has worked in Asia with Merril Lynch, HSBC and Credit Lyonnais as an Investment Analyst and Institutional Sales Director. He has been based in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, New York and Jakarta. He graduated from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and has a Master’s degree in Economic Development.
Isabelle d’Imperio
Managing Director
Isabelle has more than 30 years of industry experience. She spent most of her career as an employee for Comgest where she supported the asset management company throughout its growth occupying key positions within the organisation. She was successively appointed as the head of Administration and Finance, Compliance, Compliance and Internal Control at the firm before being named Secretary General for the Comgest Global Investors Group. Isabelle left in 2016 after spending 30 years with the company she had joined as a start-up, leaving it with more than €25 billion under management.
Isabelle is a DECF (diploma in accounting and financial studies) and DEFC charterholder.