Bio

Emmanuel Roger has diversified experience across the industry having held positions as a manager in the Automotive industry, investor in a private equity fund, and since 1987 has been a M&A industry sector specialist and has senior coverage in Investment Banking at Société Générale, Lehman Brothers and Nomura. His key domains of expertise are in automotive, aerospace and defence, steels and metals, electricals and capital goods. He is the primary France-based contact for the firm and has the background of a wide a geographical exposure to North America, Asia and Japan, Eastern Europe/Russia and Western Europe with an international network of numerous industrial decision-makers and executives built over his three decades of experience. Emmanuel has a longstanding dedication to the French and German relations with a German education an der TH Darmstadt (Maschinenbau), a large bilateral advisory expertise developed during four years in Germany as a managing partner of CCF– Interfinanz with more than 30 French-German completed M&A transactions. Emmanuel was formerly Chairman of Industrials Europe at Nomura Investment Banking, which he joined in 2009. He won awards from both Financial News and Thomson Financials for European Sell-Side mandate of the year in 2008 (Converteam) and European cross border deal of the Year in 2004 (Alcan-Pechiney). Emmanuel was educated at Ecole Centrale de Lyon/Technische Hochschule Darmstadt and holds an MSC in Mechanical Engineering as well as PHD from Paris-Dauphine University in Economics.