The team

Raphaël joins Climate Leaders Fast Track as a Portfolio Management Analyst. Passionate about sustainable finance and climate transition, he contributes to the strategic support of portfolio startups and to the monitoring of their performance.

Before joining CLFT, he worked in London as an investment analyst at Haltra Group, with a focus on European startups active in the ecological transition, particularly in the Blue Economy. He also gained experience in finance at Lombard Odier Investment Managers in London and had other experiences in finance and SaaS in Canada and France.

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Alexandra has been working for nearly 15 years in the development of strategic partnerships, B2B event management and management. She has supported major accounts and developed communities of experts, particularly around transition and impact issues. She carried out these missions within HEC Paris, Leaders League and Top Tier Impact, organizations committed to education, business and sustainability.

Her career has allowed her to develop an understanding of business, human and community dynamics, as well as expertise in team and process structuring.

Since May 2024, she has held the position of Head of Portfolio Management & Acceleration at Climate Leaders Fast Track, where she meets Pierre-Étienne Lorenceau after working alongside him at Leaders League. There, she monitors the performance and supports the startups in the portfolio as well as the implementation of tailor-made acceleration programs. She also manages the organization's human resources and event strategy.

A committed entrepreneur, Gérald Maradan founded EcoAct in 2005, a pioneer carbon strategy consulting firm. For more than fifteen years, he has supported large groups in defining and implementing their decarbonization trajectories. Under his management, the company grew from 0 to more than 400 consultants in Europe and abroad, generated €135 million in turnover, and became a global reference in its field. EcoAct is now owned by Schneider Electric.

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This field experience, complemented by a major strategic role, forges a profound conviction in him: the climate transition will not be achieved by injunction or communication, but through action, through concrete solutions led by entrepreneurs capable of sustainably transforming value chains.

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After the transmission of EcoAct, Gérald devoted himself to sustainable investment and education.

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By co-founding Climate Leaders Fast Track with Pierre-Etienne Lorenceau, he is putting his expertise and network at the service of a new generation of climate founders, with the ambition to help them accelerate their impact.

Entrepreneur turned investor, Pierre-Etienne Lorenceau now devotes his energy to impact and ClimateTech. Franco-American, at the age of 21, he founded and managed Leaders League (Decision Makers Magazine, Private Equity Exchange, Sustainable Transformation Summit, etc.). In full self-financing, he brought the company from 0 to 200 employees, established it in 45 countries, before a successful exit in 2022.

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At the same time, he has led and supported other entrepreneurial projects, which he has been able to transform into stories of growth and transmission. Since leaving as an entrepreneur, Pierre Etienne created Leadership Growth Holding (LGH), a Climate Investment Family Office that invests in early stage environmental impact start-ups, before joining forces with Gérald Maradan to create the Climate Leaders Fast Track Accelerator.

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At the same time, he chairs the European branch of Top Tier Impact (TTI), a global network of more than 1000 investors and entrepreneurs mobilized around the critical issues of our time. He also shares his academic expertise as a Professor at Paris-Saclay University and a Mentor at the HEC accelerator (CDL, Climate Track).

Before joining Climate Leaders Fast-Track, Valentine was a lawyer at a firm, where she was in charge of innovation aspects.

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After being involved strategically and operationally in legaltech, she became involved in entrepreneurship via the HEC-Launchpad and the Paris-Saclay ecosystem.Enriched by these experiences and by meetings with entrepreneurs and investors in the United States (Silicon Valley, Boston), she decided to hang up her career to focus on impact entrepreneurship. She then joined the family office of Pierre-Etienne Lorenceau — initially her mentor — and participated in the development of projects aligned with the environmental transition. At the same time, it contributes to the development of the European Top Tier Impact community, in particular by launching its Danish branch.

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At Climate Leaders Fast-Track, Valentine manages investor relationships and leads a network of committed actors, including family offices, business angels and entrepreneurs. Her ability to create relationships, her cross-sectoral vision and her relational energy make her a real bridge between startup founders and impact investors.

Éleonore works at Climate Leaders Fast Track as a VC Associate. Driven by a strong interest in innovations related to climate transition, she actively participates in the identification, analysis and monitoring of investment opportunities, as well as in post-investment strategic monitoring.

Before joining CLFT, Éleonore built a hybrid career between business law, finance and entrepreneurship.

During her law studies, she worked at AJAssociés, a firm of judicial administrators, where she learned about the challenges of restructuring and taking over companies in difficulty. Wishing to get closer to the entrepreneurial world, she then joined Margo, an IT services company with more than 400 consultants, as the CEO's right-hand man, where she worked in particular on the structuring of the group and the creation of new entities.

She then turned to venture capital, first at Starquest, an article 9 fund, then at TCD Capital, a Belgian fund investing in Series A/Series B.

John-Pierce has forged his career at the crossroads of the legal, entrepreneurial and financial worlds, with a growing commitment to climate issues and innovation. He joined Climate Leaders Fast Track as a member of the founding team, where he works on strategic aspects, project sourcing, transaction structuring and portfolio monitoring.

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Prior to that, he acquired solid experience in private equity and mergers and acquisitions at international firms such as Winston & Strawn, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Gowling WLG. An entrepreneur at heart, he co-founded Krateo, a company specializing in public speaking training, and Lexcalibur, an online platform for legal expertise.

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He then joined Leadership Growth Holding before devoting himself fully to investing in Climate Tech.

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He currently sits as an observer on the boards of several growing startups in the sector, including GreenGo, Zei, and CircularPlace.