Stéphane LENIQUE

FOURPOINTS IM is the result of the merger of two Asset Management boutiques, Philippe Gestion France & IT Asset Management. The newly created company offers a range of high conviction long only benchmark agnostic equity strategies. My job is to help scale up the French-US boutique, together with the rest of the team, towards a leading European name in active management. The goal is to cater to a broad and diversified basis of leading institutional clients.

During theses almost 12 years, my job was to help transform a higly specialised Paris-based Asset Management boutique catering to French wealth managers into a pan-European actor working with leading names of the wealth & asset management, private banking and banking industries which we actualy did. The company merged in 2012 with a US-French family office, Philippe Investment Management, leading to the birth of a bigger company, FourPoints Investment Managers.

Wealth Management Engineering department: help transforming the traditionally coporate banking focussed department into a private banking operation focussing on entrepreneurs with an eye on deposits & client investments and abandonning the historical lending activity while finding new sources of revenues.

Assistant Manager Corporate Banking Department -Dutch multinationals under the French V.S.N.E. tutorage system - writing memos and preparing board members meetings with Top 50 Dutch CEO's, COO's & CFO's - enhancing synergy between the Dutch bank and Credit Lyonnais' worldwide corporate banking network - launching a Dutch desk with CL's Chinese Rep Offices after the Netherlands resumed dimplomatic relationship with the PR of China in 1986

Developping from scratch a broad diversified portfolio of small & mid sized companies while helping the Private Banking department to grow its company owners' basis. Gross margin has been growing steadily and significantly over these three years with now bad risk taken.

developping a broad portfolio of mid-sized coporates in three strategic sectors for the bank: agribusiness IT & Consulting - Auditing & financial services Institutional Investors working in close intimacy both with the M&A department as well as the resal estate lease department, initiating several substantial mandates

In charge of developping a portfolio of mid tier customers. Within 2.5 years, the gross margin had been multiplied by a factor of 4 with significant new clients and strong profitability (stringent risk monitoring)