Charles-Édouard Bouée (born 17 May 1969 in

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

) is a French businessman. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Adagia Partners, a European MidCap Private Equity firm which he co-founded with Nicolas Holzman and Sylvain Berger-Duquene. Adagia focuses on midcap buyouts in Healthcare, Business Services and Tech. He is also co-founder, with Antoine Blondeau, of Artificial Intelligence Quartermaster (AIQ), a global platform for Artificial Intelligence Investment, Advisory and Innovation. From 28 June 2014 until 10 September 2019, he was the Chief Executive Officer of

Roland Berger Roland Berger (born 22 November 1937) is a German entrepreneur, consultant and philanthropist. Life Roland Berger was born in Berlin in 1937 as Robert Altmann; his family name changed later, after his father, Georg L. Berger, married his moth ...

; he announced his resignation on 7 June 2019. He remains affiliated with the firm as a Strategic Advisor.

Biography

Education

He studied at the

lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague The Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague (Franklin), founded in 1894, is a highly selective Roman Catholic, Jesuit school in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It is regarded as the most prestigious French private school and has been ranked #1 lycée i ...

, from which he graduated in 1986. He also holds a master's degree in engineering from

École centrale Paris École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

(ECP), a law degree from the

Paris-Sud University Paris-Sud University (), also known as the University of Paris — XI (or as the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, ...

, and in 1995, he earned an

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...

from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

Career

Charles-Edouard Bouée started his professional career as an investment banker at Société Générale in Paris and London, focussing on M&A and

Corporate Finance Corporate finance is an area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of businesses, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analy ...

. He then became an Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton. Between 1997 and 2001, Charles-Edouard Bouée acted as vice president at the strategy consultancy AT Kearney. In 2001, Charles-Edouard Bouée joined

as a senior partner in the Paris office where he managed the Financial Services and Energy competence centres. From 2006, he was responsible for the group's activities in China, and in 2009, he was appointed president of the group in Asia. He became a member of Roland Berger's Executive Committee in 2010 where he was responsible for France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Morocco. In July 2013, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO), and in June 2014 he was elected global CEO of the group. In June 2018, he was re-elected by firms’ partners to lead

for a 4-year term, after transforming the firm and leading it to a record year in terms of revenue. He resigned from his position on 7 June 2019. Today, he acts as a senior advisor for the company. In 2016, when he was CEO of Roland Berger, he initiated and co-founded B & Capital, an independent fund dedicated to supporting French SMEs, raising over €200 million He has also been an advisor to the venture capital fund Balderton Capital since 2017. In 2012, he was awarded the "Golden Magnolia" by the Mayor of Shanghai.

Other activities

Charles-Édouard Bouée is engaged in various professional and civil society organizations in Europe as well as in China or the United States; for example, he is involved in the Global Artificial Intelligence Council of the

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German ...

since June 2019, and in the

China Europe International Business School China Europe International Business School (CEIBS ( ) ) is a business school headquartered in Pudong, Shanghai, China. CEIBS has campuses in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Accra in Ghana, and Zurich in Switzerland. Established under an agreement ...

. He has been a member of the

Alumni Board from 2015 to 2019, as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business The Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is a privately-owned graduate school of business located in Beijing, China., CKGSB on the Li Ka Shing Foundation Webpage. The school was established in November 2002 through the financial supp ...

(CKGSB). From 2017 until 2021, he was also a member of the

BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian Motor Works), is a German multinational manufacturer of vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Th ...

Foundation's "Refocusing Europe" Advisory Board. He has written numerous books on management, China, and Artificial Intelligence. Charles-Edouard Bouée is regularly interviewed in the media and is consulted as an expert on these subjects. He is also a regular contributor and commentator on global economy news for the newspaper Les Echos.

Mandates

Co-chair of the Positive AI Economic Futures project, Global AI Council,

since June 2019. Member of the International Advisory Board of

since April 2018. French Foreign Trade Advisor ( Conseiller du commerce extérieur de la France) for Hong Kong since 2018. Former Board member of the

European Union Chamber of Commerce in China The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (European Chamber), is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation established to support and represent the interests of companies from the European Union operating in China. The main objective of ...

Honors

Knight of the

Legion of Honor The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and civil. Currently consisting of five classes, it was ...

(Chevalier de la

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

), 2017. Shanghai Magnolia Gold Award, 2012.

References

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