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Philippe Veillet-Lavallee
Senior Advisor, Focus, LLC
Philippe Veillet-Lavallee, a FOCUS Senior Advisor, has over twenty-five
years of management experience working for large corporations and
small companies in the European business environment mainly in the
United Kingdom and French markets. His career has ranged from planning
and business development to corporate banking.
Prior to joining FOCUS, Veillet-Lavallee
had been the Managing Director of an asset management advisory company,
which he founded in Switzerland, dedicated to service specific investment
needs of a handful of High Net Worth individuals. Assets under management
have grown at an average rate in excess of 11% and stand currently
at over $230 million.
From 1976 to the mid-eighties, Veillet-Lavallee
worked in the World Corporate Group of Citibank, in Paris and in
the European headquarters in London. There he managed the relationship
of existing corporate clients, identified prospects and established
new customer relationships. During his tenure, he was also responsible
for meeting the financial needs of Parent companies at a global
level by offering local expertise, through close coordination with
other colleagues in the Bank worldwide, to the management of their
subsidiaries. Main customer segments were pharmaceuticals and consumer
non-durables.
Early in his career he spent five years
at the European headquarters of the consumer products and services
division of WR Grace assisting management teams of various European
subsidiaries. There he was responsible for the identification and
analysis of critical macro, industry, market, customer and product
related factors in order to refine their development strategy. His
role was to support Senior Corporate Management by interfacing with
the European companies to ensure proper communication and reporting
to corporate head office in The US.
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