Tikehau Capital creates deputy MD role

Henri Marcoux has been hired to help to strengthen the French investment group’s management team as it looks to expand internationally.

Paris-based Tikehau Capital has appointed Henri Marcoux to the newly created position of deputy managing director.

Marcoux will be based in Paris and will report to the investment group’s co-founders, Antoine Flamarion and Mathieu Chabran.

In his new role, Marcoux will be responsible for supervising and coordinating the corporate and finance functions within Tikehau Capital, according to a statement.

“Tikehau has experienced strong growth in recent years and Henri will help the company, in this newly created position, to strengthen the management team as they are looking to expand internationally,” a spokesperson for Tikehau told pfm.

Marcoux has gained 21 years of experience in audit and financial management. He joins Tikehau from luxury brand group Groupe EPI, where he spent 11 years as chief financial officer. In this role, he was responsible for financial control, financing and banking relations, the corporate legal department and consolidation. He was also actively involved in all the M&A projects carried out by the group and was in charge of managing the group’s real estate assets.

Tikehau Capital Group manages a total of €8.7 billion for institutional and private investors in various asset classes, including private equity, credit, private debt, and real estate, through its asset management subsidiary, Tikehau IM, its listed minority equity investment company, Salvepar, and its long term investment company, Tikehau Capital Partners.

The group has approximately 170 employees located in offices in Paris, Brussels, London and Singapore. Last year Tikehau Capital raised its first CLO priced at €354.7 million and as of August, manages €3.3 billion of private equity assets.