MEMBERS DIRECTORY

Sonia Trocme-Le Page (American and French citizen, 43, married, 2 children, Master in finance Paris-Dauphine, MBA City University of New York, Baruch College) has co-founded Global Private Equity, an International Placement Advisor for private equity funds, in 2000. She is in charge of securing new business, while keeping direct responsibility in the business of raising private equity and infrastructure funds worldwide, as well as securing new clients. Since co-founding the firm, she has successfully conducted fund-raising missions for 17 firms, together raising a total of about $7.5 Bn. Beginning 2009, Sonia brought to the firm their biggest client ever, the $1.3Bn BNP Group infrastructure fund, and subsequently raised money for them to bring Global Private Equity's net profit to a record year. Clients are prominent private equity, venture capital, energy and renewable and infrastructure fund management companies from Europe, the US, China, India, South America, Singapore, Israel, and money was raised for them from Western Europe, and Nordic Countries, the US, the Middle East, South East Asia and Australia. Together with her team, carefully built over the years, she has built strong relationships with prominent pension funds,insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds corporates family offices, and high net worth individuals. In the current crisis context, ability to understand investors' ever changing needs and personal motivations and to convince them to invest has been key. Prior to co-founding the firm, she spent 10 years in corporate and investment banking, lastly as Associate Director with Credit Agricole Indosuez in the Private Equity Funds Placement Group, and in M&A transactions within the Corporate Finance Group. In Mergers and Acquistions, she conducted missions in various sectors (building materials, paints, security services, industry, media...) in Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. Examples include a project to create an mutual agricultural bank in Ivory Coast, replicating the Credit Agricole model, and buying a cement company in Jordania for a large European corporate. She also worked for 4 years as Senior Vice President at the Credit Agricole Head Office in charge of large US institutional clientele : covering all US commercial and investments banks for Credit Agricole. She was in charge of coordinating the sales of treasury products (money market, foreign exchange, interest rate products, long term swaps, credit lines), as well as analysing and keeping under control the Global Risk level taken by the Credit Agricole Group on all US banks. Previously, she was in charge of corporate lending to large US and Canadian corporates for the bank. Before that, she spent over two years as a financial analyst in New York. In November 2010, Sonia won the La Tribune Women Awards in the Finance category. in Sept. 2008, Sonia was named one of the Top 40 most influential women in Private Equity by Private Equity News. Sonia has also taken responsibility for building EVE-Olution Foundation Europe, the European chapter of Eve-olution Foundation Inc. She is a member of various networks, a member of the jury of HEC Entrepreneurs and member of HEC Club Finance. Sonia plays flute and practices yoga and photography.