Stephane Pesch, studied Finance and Business administration in France and finished his studies with an exchange program in the US. After some experiences in the media sector, Stephane joined the financial services and investment funds industry in 2005. He worked for various banks in different sales, client and product-centric positions. He switched afterwards to an international PSF providing specialised PE & VC services for which he led the business development activities in Europe. He was able to participate over the last years in the tremendous growth of the PE/VC asset classes in Luxembourg and of the LPEA via different active roles in Technical Committees. After many years as a member, he professionally joined the association in October 2019 as Director of Strategy and started working on key missions including public advocacy, thought leadership and the attraction of talents. With his team he launched the LPEA Training Academy in 2020 and took over in September the role of CEO, pursuing LPEA’s core mission of promoting, defending and representing with passion the Private Capital industry and community.