Stéphanie Frachet’s biography
Independent Director – Member of the Strategy Committee, of the Governance, Appointments and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, and of the Compensation Committee
Stéphanie Frachet is a Partner of the Adagia Partners private equity fund, where she is responsible for investment activities in France and SwitzerlandFlex. She has more than 20 years of experience in finance and private equity.
From 2001 to 2007, she was in charge of audit and transaction services at, respectively, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, working on M&A and LBO transactions. In 2007, she joined the Leveraged Finance team of Société Générale,in charge of LBO transactions for SMEs and large groups. Stéphanie Frachet then joined Bpifrance (formerly Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement) in 2009 where she was Director of Bpifrance Investissement and member of the Management Committee of Bpifrance Capital Développement between 2017 and 2022.
From 2022 to mid-2024, Stéphanie Frachet was a partner of the Flex Equity Mid Market fund at CAPZA, a European private investment platform, which focuses on small and mid-cap companies in their growth and decarbonization challenges. Since September 2024, she has been a partner at the private equity fund Adagia Partners, where she is responsible for investment activities in France and Switzerland.
She is a member of the Supervisory Board of Minlay Capital. Previously, she was a permanent representative of Bpifrance Participations notably as a director of Eutelsat Communications and a permanent representative of Bpifrance Investissement as a director of Sulo (formerly Plastic Omnium Environnement). She was also a director of Constellium (a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange) and a member of the Supervisory Board of Sabena Technics Participations, as well as Board Observer of Horizon Parent Holdings (Verallia), Diot-Siaci, Financière Carso and Paprec.
The expertise she has gained throughout her professional career on CSR issues contributes to the work of the Governance, Appointments & Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, of which she is a member.
Stéphanie Frachet is a graduate of ESSEC Business School.
Stéphanie Frachet is a French citizen and speaks French and English.