Bertrand Talabart

Bertrand Talabart has over 25 years of operational and investment leadership experience, with the last 15 years in the investment industry. As an engineer, he successfully developed greenfield manufacturing activities in Singapore and China for a division of the Thales group. After his Master of Business Administration, he then joined IPE Paris, a mid-cap investment fund and was instrumental in the execution and successful growth an exit of several mid-cap LBOs (200 to 700m$). After that he joined SISU Capital, a London based event driven hedge fund where he supervised several pan European investments in the Telecom and Industrial segments.

In 2013, He joined AIAC, the Industrial holding company owned by Leonard M Levie, AVARA chairman, and since leads acquisition, turnaround, and divestment of several large worldwide AIAC projects, including management team coaching, growth plan deployment, digitalization, design and follow up of restructuring and growth programs. He is director of AVARA since 2016.

As Group Director, Mr. Talabart, alongside the Chairman defines the strategic objectives and work together with the company leadership team to ensure proper alignment and execution of this plan. He also works closely with EVP on specific projects.

Mr. Talabart holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the French Institute for Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the Hautes Etudes Commerciales School Paris (HEC Paris). He also gave lecture at INSEAD Singapore and HEC about industrial methodologies and business restructuring. Besides his role at Avara, Mr. Talabart is also director of Neotiss, Bright Green Plastics and Epalia.