The Milestone team
Milestone
consists of 3 investment professionals, supported exclusively by 4 operating partners, notably for the deal sourcing, the deal execution and the management of investee companies (if they hold a NED position; 1 to 2 NED per investee company).
Investment team
Erick Rinner
erick.rinner@milestone-investisseurs.com
Luxembourg : +352 621 225 802
Suisse : +41 79 128 20 44
Erick Rinner (57), Managing Partner, has spent 30 years in private equity with Milestone and 8 years in acquisition finance with Société Générale. Erick’s investments have included business to consumer products, outsourcing services, IT services, specialist retail, business services, healthcare and industrial services sectors. He has completed 9 platform investments and more than 30 acquisitions, including 5àSec and Cadum. Erick sits on the boards of ITX and Milestone Investisseurs and his past directorships include Interfloor, Swania, Cadum, 5àSec, WinnCare, IXEurope and Renaissance.
Erick’s core skills include initiating change at board level, negotiation, advising management teams on value creation and leadership. He sits on the board of companies in London, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Erick trains leaders and executives in global companies for corporate mindfulness techniques. He received an MBA (Award for Excellence) from Columbia University, and is also a graduate of Audencia Business School in France. Erick is an executive and life coach; he practices Buddhist meditation, yoga and is a mindfulness teacher.
Olivier Antomarchi
olivier.antomarchi@milestone-investisseurs.com
Belgique : +32 497 38 31 45
FR : +33 6 61 96 91 08
Olivier Antomarchi (51), Partner, has more than 20 years of experience in the lower-mid cap private equity, and has worked more than 17 years with Erick Rinner, at Milestone and within the Société Générale’s Structured Finance Group, in New York and Paris. In 2000, he became CEO of Ludopia Interactive, a direct marketing services company he created with the support of French venture capital funds, and sold it in 2003.
He is a graduate from HEC Business School (1996). Olivier enjoys football and lives in Brussels with his three sons. Olivier sits on the board of ITX and Milestone Investisseurs, and his former directorships include Swania, Néothermie, Cadum, WinnCare and 5àSec.
Emmanuel Floret
Emmanuel Floret (53) worked 11 years as CFO and Operating Partner in a large cap healthcare private equity fund and 12 years within corporate development (M&A) departments of large industrial groups in Switzerland, France and the UK, in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors.
Recently, Emmanuel worked as the interim CFO of ITX. He graduated from ESDES Business School in Lyon with a Masters in finance and business administration. Emmanuel is based in Geneva.
Operating partners
Jacques Deret
jacques.deret@milestone-investisseurs.com
Alan Tawil-Kummerman
alan.tawil-kummerman@milestone-investisseurs.com
Christophe de Buchet
christophe.debuchet@milestone-investisseurs.com
Philippe Croppi
philippe.croppi@milestone-investisseurs.com
Philippe Croppi (57) has built his career in the world of Mergers & Acquisitions and entrepreneurship. After a 10 years’ experience in the investment banking sector (M&A departments of HSBC and Societe Generale), Philippe was Managing Partner of Close Brothers (now DC Advisory) for also 10 years. He created then Easton Corporate Finance (now Clearwater) of which he was Managing Director for 10 years.
He has carried out numerous transactions in France and abroad with investment funds (LBO) and Industrials. Philippe graduated from ESCP (1988) and holds a post-graduate degree in Economics from Paris-Dauphine University (1989). Philippe became Operating Partner of Milestone in 2018.
