Nicolas Gagnez Joins Crédit Agricole Private Equity

Nicolas Gagnez has joined Crédit Agricole Private Equity as an Investment Director within its Venture Capital team. He will focus on investments in the IT and Communications sector.

Gagnez graduated from the Ecole Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur. In 1995, he co-founded Société de Numérisation de Ville, a company that created digital image databases of city streets and buildings accessible via the Pages Jaunes website. Following the company's acquisition by Wanadoo in late 2000, Gagnez joined the senior management committee at Wanadoo Portails.

He subsequently merged the group's geographical activities with SNV to form Mappy, a subsidiary of the Pages Jaunes group. Mappy became the 13th most visited website in France and a leading online route planning service.

Crédit Agricole Private Equity is the asset management company of Crédit Agricole S.A. dedicated to private equity investments in unlisted companies. Its 35 professionals specialize in four segments: Expansion Capital & LBO, Venture Capital, Secondary Market, and Mezzanine, managing €1.05 billion in French private equity mutual funds (FCPR and FCPI) and private equity companies (SCR).