Luis Santos

Team member


Senior Advisor

He is a business development executive specializing in the telecommunications sector, with over 35 years of experience in various leading companies in the market. His specialization is in the creation and development of terminals, applications, services, and business communication solutions for all markets. It has great commercial capacities for the creation and projection of important projects. He has actively participated in the sale and acquisition of several telecommunications companies. He speaks Spanish and English.


Ramon Brusco

Team member


Partner & Head of Healthcare

Ramon Brusco, Partner & Head of Healthcare at YaC, has more than 23 years of experience in international pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Ramon has extensive experience in negotiations and multicultural relations as well as a strong business knowledge and network of contacts in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) area with proven success and direct experience in the main markets of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Ramon has been involved over the last years in multiple local and regional pharmaceutical transactions and licenses.

He holds a degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (U.A.B), a Master in Foreign Trade, Economics and International Finance from the Universitat de Barcelona (U.B) and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (U.P.C). He works in Spanish, Catalan (native languages), English and Italian.


Augustin Feroldi

Team member


Director

Augustin started his career in 2015 working within the M&A / Corporate Development team of Alten (ATE.PA). During his first two years at Alten, Augustin worked as an Analyst, supporting the Managers in the deals’ execution at the company’s headquarters in Paris. Since August 2017, Augustin is based in Madrid, where he led the M&A activities for Alten in Southern Europe. As a Manager he has performed several acquisitions in Spain, Italy and Portugal. Augustin’s transaction experience covers Engineering and IT services, Digital Transformation and Analytics. Before Alten, Augustin has done several internships in Paris, France, Casablanca, Morocco and Barcelona, Spain. Augustin holds a Msc. in Management with a specialization in Corporate Finance from NEOMA Business School. Augustin speaks French (native) and is fluent in English and Spanish.


Andrea Pierpaoli

Team member


Partner - Head of Execution

Andrea joined You are Capital in February 2020 after 17 years of experience in Rome and London assisting managers, entrepreneurs and institutional investors as Director of the execution team of AdviCorp PLC, a Corporate Finance advisory firm. He developed significant expertise in international M&A, equity/debt raising, leveraged finance and debt restructuring transactions, and an extensive knowledge of various sectors, including Food, Luxury Consumer and Construction. He brings to You are Capital the highest standards in financial and credit analysis, company/asset valuation, preparation of business plans, transaction structuring and document drafting. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification and earned a Degree cum laude in Economics and Corporate Finance from Università Politecnica delle Marche. He is fluent in Italian and English, speaks good Spanish and has a basic knowledge of French.


Ignacio Loring

Team member


Managing Partner

You are Capital Managing Partner in Madrid (Spain) has over 25 years’ experience in Corporate Finance, including M&A, restructuring and valuation. Since 1988 he has participated in multiple M&A processes in various industrial sectors including Food & Beverage, Logistics and Sustainable Energy. Ignacio has a master’s degree at ICADE (Economy and Law) and can easily work in Spanish (native), English and French.


Guillaume Hannezo

Team member


Chairman

After a career as a french civil servant (economic adviser to the french President Francois Mitterrand) and a CFO of various CAC 40 corporates (AGF, Compagnie générale des eaux, Vivendi Universal), Guillaume Hannezo specialized in 2003 in M&A and debt advisory, creating his own financial advisory boutique, later merged into Rothschild which he joined as a Partner. During his 30 years of M&A practice, he conducted or advised a wide variety of transactions on behalf of listed companies, family offices, entrepreneurs or PE funds, in France, US and emerging countries, in sectors as diverse as utility, medias, Telecoms, IT, construction, consumer products, real estate, FIG , and industry.


Julien Lagenette

Team member


Partner

Co-founder and Partner for You are Capital in Barcelona, he previously worked for Eurohold since January 2007, first as analyst, associate to Head of Execution in 2015.
With more than 15 years of experience in Corporate Finance, he has closely participated in dozens of transactions in key sectors such as Agro-Food, Pharma/Healthcare or Information Technology. Julien holds a Msc. in Management, with a specialization in finance from the EM Lyon Business School. He arrived in Spain in 2007 and additionally to his native French, he speaks fluently Spanish and English and intermediate Catalan.


Patricia Larsen

Team member


General Manager

With over 20 years of diverse experience in business, ranging from strategic advisory, selling, event management, marketing, fundraising to M&A.
Patricia has lived in Europe, the UK, the US, China, Hong Kong and now Barcelona. As General Manager she oversees daily operations of the firm. Ensures the creation and implementation of a strategy designed to grow the business. She also generates M&A transactions, oversee & assists in executing mandates, domestically & across international borders.
With her experience in business and in understanding the diversity of people – their needs and wants – her expertise spans across a variety of industries and sectors.


Jean François Alandry

Team member


CEO & Founder

As the founder of You are Capital & Eurohold, Jean-François has over 30 years’ experience in Corporate Finance. He has completed hundreds of deals in his career, advised countless corporate transactions, with Industrials, Private Equity firms & Entrepreneurs, in various sectors ranging from Technology, Environment & Renewable Energies, B2B Services and Life Sciences. Jean-François holds an MBA in Finance (EM Lyon Business School) and a PhD in Financial Technique (ESSEC Business School in Paris), is fluent in French, Spanish & English.