Charlène Deneau

Legal and compliance officer
Charlène Deneau
Charlène Deneau

Charlène joined Rivage in October 2021 as a legal and compliance officer.

Previously, she worked as a financial legal officer in the legal and tax department of a hedge fund specialized in the development of arbitrage strategies.

Charlène holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Financial Law from the Lyon III – Jean Moulin University (France) and an MBA in Compliance from Financia Business School (France).

Matthew Kay

Senior risk manager
Matthew Kay
Matthew Kay

Matthew Kay joined Rivage in December 2024 as Senior Risk Manager after a French-British career focused on finance and risk.

After starting out as an analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland and then as a portfolio management consultant at Kyte Capital, Matthew spent almost 10 years, both in Paris and London, at Gatemore Capital Management where, as an investment consultant and then risk director, he advised institutional investors on investment strategy and manager selection, and then headed up risk management for multi-manager hedge funds. After running the finance function for a sustainable mobility trade show, he then joined Shares, a French fintech broking firm, to head up their risk function.

Matthew is also an active volunteer in Franco-British charities, serving on the board of the Hertford British Charitable Fund, an organisation that provides grants to other charities and individuals in need of financial support in France.

Matthew holds a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and has been a CFA Chartholder (CFA Institute) since 2013.

Dimitri Oto Alo'o

Junior legal & compliance officer
Dimitri Oto Alo'o
Dimitri Oto Alo'o

Dimitri joined Rivage in September 2022 as a Legal & Compliance Officer.

Prior to joining Rivage, he began his career as a Legal Officer at a law firm specializing in project finance. He then served as Corporate and Business Customers Operations Officer in the retail banking division of Société Générale.

Dimitri holds a Master’s degree in Taxation, Business Law, Consulting, and Business Management from INSEEC Paris Business School (France) and an MBA in Compliance from Financia Business School (France).

Pierre Tavano

Senior compliance and risk officer
Pierre Tavano
Pierre Tavano

Pierre joined Rivage in September 2019 as a compliance and risk analyst.

With a dual background in legal and corporate finance, Pierre also holds an MBA2 in Compliance from Financia Business School and is certified as an ESG Analyst by the European Federation of Financial Analysts.

Julien Wavasseur

Head of compliance, internal control, and risk management
Julien Wavasseur
Julien Wavasseur

Julien joined Rivage Investment in December 2017 as Head of Compliance, Internal Control and Risk.

He has more than 17 years of experience in asset management industry and risk & compliance areas. He began his career in a consulting firm where he worked on new regulations implementation (MiFID in particular), process analysis and risk assessment projects for asset managers, banks and insurers based in France, the UK or in Morocco. He then joined Natixis Investment Managers, first as a risk specialist, where he advised the group’s European and Asian affiliates (25+ entities specialized in all asset classes including infrastructure and real estate) in their implementation of risk management systems and related projects, then as manager of the team in charge of the group’s operational risk Value-at-Risk calculation (35+ entities worldwide).

Julien graduated from NEOMA Business School.