Guilhem Castagne

Background

About Guilhem Castagne

Mr. Castagne is a corporate finance and business development specialist, currently serving the needs of corporate clients in the US, Europe and Africa. Mr. Castagne is a managing director at Vulcain S.A.S; he is a business development consultant for Ivanhoe Gabon S.A; he was CFO of YourOffers, a US growth-stage tech & targeted promotions company he co-founded in 2009 funded by Global Silicon Valley Capital (GSVC, a Tier 1, publicly traded venture capital fund NASDAQ: GSVC); he was a consultant (02-05) then Director of operations and business development (05-07) for Silicon Valley Innovation Company (SVIC), an early stage venture capital (VC) and development company founded in SVIC has invested $100 million into companies it founded and developed before bringing later stage VCs, strategic investors and investment banks for subsequent rounds and exit transactions. Mr. Castagne has been involved in the start-up, financing, team building and development of telecommunications, software, internet technology, oil & gas, mining and companies in various other industries in the US, Europe, Arica, South America and Asia since 1996. Some of these companies included Inktomi Corporation (NASDAQ NM: INKT, second most successful US IPO of 1998 after eBay, acquired by Yahoo! in 2002), Military Commercial Technologies (MILCOM), YesMail (NASDAQ: YESM, acquired by CMGI in and Triton Network Systems (IPO Credit Suisse in NASDAQ: TNSI, divested in 2001) to name a few. In his career, Mr. Castagne participated in many venture and private equity capital raises, totaling more than $1B. Earlier in his career, Mr. Castagne was an investment professional with PaineWebber (now part of UBS) and other firms where he was involved in investment banking, corporate finance and portfolio management. Mr. Castagne studied finance and economics at New York University and at the University of Southern California.