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 had leadeship for 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 had began her carrer 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.
Vincent Houghton
Managing Director
Vincent has more than 30 years of investment and banking experience, principally in Asian and global markets. Vincent had 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 has activly 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 as of end 2019. Vincent had 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 carrier as an employee for Comgest where she supported the asset management company all along its growth path occupying different key positions within its organisation. She was successively in charge of Administration and Finance, Compliance, Compliance and Internal Control before being named Secretary General for the Comgest Global Investors Group. Isabelle left in 2016 after 30 years spent with a company she had joined as a start up and left with more than €25billion under management.
Isabelle is a DECF (diploma in accounting and financial studies) and DEFC charterhoder