Raphael du Vignau

Background

About Raphael du Vignau

Currently- Head of Joint-Ventures and International go-to-market within the Merchant Services Global Business Line of Worldline, covering both Commercial Acquiring, Acceptance and Digital Retail - Scope covering payment alliances with banks (such as BNL in Italy, ANZ in Australia and Eurobank in Greece); acquiring partnership models and white-label models in Europe; Paymark (acceptance, data insights and terminals in New Zealand); Turkey; Prepaid Services in France; payment gateway in Canada and the US Previous experience as seasoned financial and strategy executive, with- 2 years as CFO - 3 years in Corporate M&A and Strategy - 15 years of Corporate Finance / M&A advisory (both in investment banking and in corporate, through execution of over 70 M&A transactions in a very wide range of sectors and with specific focus on payments, digital / IT and media-telecom)- both public and private buy-sides; negotiated and auction sell-sides; ECM transactions - both with industrial clients and financial sponsors (LBOs or infrastructure investments)- Including significant cross-border deals Core technical competencies- Current role: Business management, sales and business development in a payment technology environment - CFO: Financial planning and controlling (in the context of closing, business reviews, budgeting and action plans); investment and commercial engagement assessment; cash flow steering, treasury and financing; accounting and consolidation; financial communication; procurement; corporate IT - M&A and Strategy background: strategic and financial analysis; valuation; transaction structuring (financing, legal, tax) and negotiation; corporate finance and acquisition finance - Merger integration, including transformation plans and synergy implementation - Team management and leadership in complex projects / process and moving environment