Yann du Rusquec
Chief Executive Officer
Yann has more than 20 years of investment and acquisition experience, the vast majority of which has been focused on European growth investments, where he has personally overseen more than €2.2bn deployed.
Prior to founding Noteus, he spent 16 years at another major investment firm, establishing the Firm’s Growth strategy. He was the Head of the Growth team, which was one of the flagship franchises in Europe of its kind, both in terms of size and tenure. Yann was a member of the Prior Firm’s leadership team and managed a team of 20 dedicated professionals. Under his leadership, the portfolio had grown to €4bn+ in assets under management by the time of his departure, and counted more than 26 of Europe’s tech category leaders.
Among the major investments led by Yann were Adjust, BackMarket, ContentSquare, Doctolib, Farfetch, ManoMano, PeopleDoc, Payfit, Vestiaire Collective and Younited. He sat on the board of most of these companies.
Earlier in his career, Yann worked at Lazard and Morgan Stanley, where he was involved in a broad range of merchant banking, M&A, debt, equity and restructuring transactions.
Yann received a degree from École Centrale de Paris.
He lives in Paris, France and is fluent in French and English. He also speaks German and Spanish.