Unifiedpost : CV Els Degroote

	Els Degroote (° 15 September 1976)
Work experience
2022 - Present	Alychlo, Investment Principal
	˗ Board member of Greenyard, miDiagnostics, Padelworld (Arenal), OTRA and Triginta
	˗ Member of the Investment committee of CIM Capital
	˗ Responsible for the follow-up of the investments of Alychlo in Fagron and UnifiedPost
2016 - 2022	EY, Partner in Strategy & Transactions and Brussels Regional Managing Partner
	˗ Responsible for M&A on the Belgian market with a focus on reinforcing the position of
	EY with (international) private equity firms and larger corporates
	˗ Managing a team of 15 M&A professionals working within the broader Strategy &
	Transactions team (including services such as due diligence, strategy, real estate,
	valuations & modelling, etc)
	˗ Focus on deal origination, steering execution of large(r) transactions and managing &
	further developing the team
	˗ Appointed Regional Office Manager for the Brussels office of EY, implying	a role
	meant at stimulating cross-functionalco-operation and business development
	centered around key accounts.
	˗ Important transactions include (non-exhaustive list):
	˗ Financial advisor for Sofindev for the sale of Geodynamis to IK;
	˗ Financial advisor for Greenyard on several high priority projects and developed the
	client across service lines;
	˗ Deal arranger and sell side advisor for sale of majority in Agilitas by Gilde Buy Out
	Partners to Proman;
	˗ Buy side advisor of Baltisse in the acquisition of House of Talents from Sofindev;
	˗ Carve-out of Recticel's Automotive Interiors division to Admetos;
	˗ Sell side advisor to Bencis Capital Partners in the secondary buyout of Impact, lead
	by Gimv;
	˗ Trade sale of Vergokan by Pentahold to strategic buyer US listed Atkore;
	˗ Buy side origination and successful acquisition of Syx Automation by Gantner,
	supported by Ardian.
	˗ Appointed Regional Office Manager for the Brussels office of EY, implying a role meant
	at stimulating cross-functionalco-operation and business development centered
	around key accounts.
2012-2016	KBC Securities, Head of Corporate Finance, Brussels
	˗ Responsible of all Corporate Finance transactions (Equity Capital Market transactions,
	M&A, financial advisory for private and public companies) by KBC Group in Belgium
	˗ Developed KBC Securities into leading Corporate Finance advisor in Belgium through
	active deal sourcing within and outside the KBC Group's network and through realising
	successful execution of projects (lead by deal team)
	˗ Managing a team of 18 highly skilled and ambitious professionals: resource allocation
	planning, timely recruitment of new people, supporting new initiatives for continuous
	development of the team and evaluation/feedback
	˗ Develop and maintain close collaboration with all relationship managers	of the
	commercial network of KBC and CBC, branch and region directors, Private Banking and
	key account managers
	˗ Important successfully realized transactions include (non-exhaustive list):
	˗ IPOs on Euronext Brussels of TINC, Ontex and bpost and right issues of Recticel
	˗ Sale of government owned t-Groep to Gilde Buy Out Partners in a	primary
	management buyout;
	˗ Public-to-Private of Xeikon in a transaction lead by Bencis Capital Partner;
	˗ Secondary buyout of Eurodiesel sold by Maple Finance Group to 3i;
	˗ Mergers of Univeg and Greenyard Foods as well as Corelio and Concentra;
	˗ Buy side advisor to Ardian for the acquisition of Noordzee Helicopters Vlaanderen;
	˗ Since June 2013 also responsible for developing Corporate Finance in the Walloon
	region with the support of and in consultation with CBC Banque

• Initiator and driving force behind the start-up KBC Match'it, an online M&A platform to connect SMEs with turnover between €5 and €20m and investors/acquirers, which was successfully launched at the end of 2016

2000-2012

KBC Securities, Executive Director Corporate Finance, Brussels

• Deal captain on large transactions (>75m€), responsible for execution and leading deal team, and jointly responsible for origination of new projects
• Milestone transactions successfully concluded (non-exhaustive list):
• • Carve-outand sale of Centea from KBC Group to Credit Agricole/Landbouwkrediet (deal value: €570m), reporting directly to Johan Thijs;
  • Carve-outand sale of Fidea from KBC Group to JC Flowers & Co through a management buyout (deal value: €243m);
  • Trade sale of Dynaco by KBC Private Equity to strategic buyer Assa Abloy from Sweden;
  • Several IPOs such as Arseus, 4 Energy Invest, Alfacam and Metris
  • Independent expert for the Board of Directors of Omega Pharma in the Take Over Bid transaction and several other independent expert reports (fairness opinions).

Education & Training
2014-2015	Vlerick Management School: High Potential Banking & Insurance MBA
March 2012	Brand Me: Leadership programme for women taking on senior leadership roles
2011-2012	KBC Group: Training programme for leading teams effectively
1999-2000	Vlerick Management School, Ghent: MBA Financial Management (Cum Laude)
	˗ Final Project: "Roadmap for Investor Relations at Almanij" (Magna Cum Laude)
	˗ Class representative and responsible for organising diverse class events
1995-1999	UFSIA, Antwerp: Commercial Engineer (Cum Laude)
	˗ Thesis: "Underpricing of IPOs" (Magna Cum Laude; several publications)
	˗ Participated in international exchanges in Salamanca, Montreal and Washington
1989-1995	Instituut Dames van het Christelijk Onderwijs, Antwerp: Latin Mathematics
Other
Private	Married with Bart Rabaey, mother of Elise (17) and Victor (15)
Languages	Dutch (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fluent)
Hobbies	My family, shopping, cooking, travelling, tennis, going out with friends