APAX Partners

• - Co-founder of Apax Partners
• - Chairman of Altamir Amboise’s management company
• - Chairman of the AlphaOmega foundation

Maurice Tchenio began his career at HEC as Associate Professor of Finance and with Institut de Développement Industriel in Paris, an investment bank specialising in equity investment.

In 1972, along with Ronald Cohen and Alan Patricof, he founded Apax Partners which has become one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups.
From 1972 to 2010, he was chairman and CEO of Apax Partners in France.
In 1995, he created the listed private equity company Altamir Amboise.
In 2010, he founded the state-approved venture philanthropy foundation AlphaOmega.

He is a co-founder of the French private equity association (AFIC) and a former Director of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA).

Maurice Tchenio is a graduate of HEC business school and the Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar with high distinction.