Timothée Auffret

Portfolio management analyst
Timothée Auffret
Timothée Auffret

Timothée joined Rivage Investment in 2020 as an Analyst on infrastructure projects, mainly focused on portfolio management.

Timothée has 9 years of experience in financing at Societe Generale, including 5 as Portfolio Manager on infrastructure structured finance, as an Associate and then VP. He worked on Infrastructure, Energy (including Renewables) and Metals & Mining transactions, mostly EMEA-based.

He holds a degree from Sciences-Po Bordeaux (Masters in Finance)

Amal Baina

Portfolio management analyst
Amal Baina
Amal Baina

Amal joined Rivage in 2014 as an analyst on infrastructure projects. She has 4-years’ experience in the energy sector both in France and Morocco.

Amal worked for the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN) where she was part of the team in charge of structuring the solar complex Noor in southern Morocco with a 500 MW capacity. Amal also had the opportunity to work as a financial analyst on renewable energy projects with the French IPP Akuo Energy and on structured finance solutions with Areva.

Amal graduated from ISCAE – Moroccan business school (Master in Finance) and Reims Management School (MSc International Finance). Amal also holds a masters degree in project and structured finance from Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées – Paris Ouest University.

Hervé Besnard

CEO
Hervé Besnard
Hervé Besnard

Hervé founded Rivage Investment in 2010, and is the CEO of the company.

Prior to that, Hervé was Managing Director at BNP Paribas. He was in charge of the credit structuring department and head of the European teams. Hervé started his career in the BNP Paribas infrastructure project finance department. Hervé has over 25 years of experience in structured finance and capital markets.

He has an engineering degree from l’Ecole Centrale Paris.

Stéphanie Charlet

Investment director
Stéphanie Charlet
Stéphanie Charlet

Stéphanie joined Rivage in 2021 as an Investment Director.

She has 10 years of experience in the infrastructure sector: she has previously worked at CACIB within the infrastructure team in Paris where she was a director. She was involved in a wide range of deals, executing arranging mandates as well as advisory mandates for construction firms and infrastructure funds, structuring the financing of their transactions.
Before CACIB, she had spent 2 years in Audit at PwC Paris, specializing in investment funds.

Stéphanie Holds a Master 2 in banking and finance from Paris Dauphine University.

Benjamin Collet

Investment manager
Benjamin Collet
Benjamin Collet

Benjamin joined Rivage Investment in 2020 and has 8 years of experience in structuring and financing infrastructure projects in France and Europe.

Prior to joining Rivage, Benjamin worked at H3P where he supported industrial players and investment funds in the structuring, fundraising and refinancing of a large number of greenfield and brownfield infrastructure projects in sectors such as transport, telecoms, renewable energy and social infrastructure. He started his career in 2015 at Société Générale where he worked in the infrastructure portfolio management team.

Benjamin graduated in civil engineering from ESTP Paris. He also holds dual degree in Finance from EDHEC Business School.

Pierre-Emmanuel Giroux

Investment director
Pierre-Emmanuel Giroux
Pierre-Emmanuel Giroux

Pierre-Emmanuel joined Rivage in 2022 as an Investment Director.

He has 12 years of experience in the infrastructure & energy sector: he has previously worked at BNP Paribas within the energy, resources and infrastructure team in Paris where he was a director since 2020.
He was involved in a wide range of transactions, executing underwriting / lead arranging as well as advisory mandates for infrastructure and renewable energy projects.
He brings international experience, having spent 1 year in New York (focusing on Latin America) and 7 years in Singapore (focusing on Asia Pacific) before moving back to Paris in 2018.

Pierre-Emmanuel graduated from INSA Lyon engineering school, specializing in energy and sustainability, and holds a specialized master’s degree from ESSEC Business School.

John Keeper

Investment manager
John Keeper
John Keeper

John joined Rivage in 2016 as an analyst. He has over 9 years of experience in investments and advisory in both Paris and London.

John began his career within audit at PwC London, specialising in Investment Funds. He then joined Mercer Investments, where as an investment consultant he advised institutional investors on a range of investment matters, including: investment strategy, portfolio construction, liability management and manager selection.

John has a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and Finance and a Masters in Finance from the University of Glasgow, and a Masters in Project and Structured Finance from the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées/ Paris Ouest University. He is also a CFA Charterholder.

Maxime Le Joncour

Investment manager
Maxime Le Joncour
Maxime Le Joncour

Maxime joined Rivage at the end of 2017 as an analyst. He had previously started his career in 2014 at HSBC as a project finance analyst before moving to BPI France as a financial analyst on Space, Telecom, Energy and Project Finance within the Export Insurance team. He was involved in analysis and risk assessment of export credit insurance applications for international project finance transactions.

Maxime graduated in Engineering at Ecole des Mines de Nancy and holds a Masters in Business from HEC Paris.

Clément Pagnoux

Infrastructure project analyst
Clément Pagnoux
Clément Pagnoux

Clément joined Rivage in July 2022 as an infrastructure project analyst.

Before joining Rivage, Clément worked as an investment analyst at EDF in Santiago, Chile. Covering projects in Chile, Peru and Colombia, he was accompanying the local development teams on the structuring and financing of greenfield energy generation projects developed by EDF in the region.

Clément graduated in corporate finance from Neoma BS.

Pierre-Emmanuel Richard

Infrastructure debt analyst
Pierre-Emmanuel Richard
Pierre-Emmanuel Richard

Pierre-Emmanuel joined Rivage Investment in 2018 as an analyst, after 4 years at Deloitte.

He started his career in 2014 in Paris, working for Deloitte where, as a consultant in Transaction Services, he took part in many Financial Due Diligence processes analysing the main valuation drivers of M&A operations over many different sectors. In 2016, he then joined up the Financial Modelling team to work on the financial models supporting project financing in the fields of Energy and Infrastructure.

Pierre-Emmanuel graduated from Ecole de Management de Lyon.