Antoine Drean (Past Speaker)

Antoine Dréan founded Mantra in 2007. Antoine sits on Mantra’s Investment Committee. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Triago (1992), one of the first independent private equity placement agents, and the founder of Palico (2012), an online marketplace for the private equity fund community. Antoine started his professional career in 1986 in a French advisory firm specialized in distressed situations. In 1988, Antoine founded an M&A boutique which he eventually sold to an American investment bank in 1990. Antoine holds an MBA from the Wharton School (WG ‘92) and is Chairman of the Wharton Executive Board for EMEA. Antoine is a French national.