background-altamir-home The General Partner
Altamir Gérance’s function is to determine Altamir’s strategy, manage its growth and take and implement the main operating decisions.
The Board of Directors
Eddie Misrahi is Chairman of Altamir Gérance.
A recognized private equity professional, Eddie Misrahi held senior leadership positions within the French entity of the Apax Group, renamed Seven2 in 2023, before serving as its Chairman from 2011 to 2025. Under his leadership, Seven2 continued its development and strengthened its position within the European private equity landscape. After handing over the operational management of Seven2 to his partners, he joined Altamir Gérance – where he had served as a Director since 2014 – as Deputy Chief Executive Officer. He started his career at McKinsey & Co. in Paris then in Mexico City, before working at an American telecommunications group in the United States. From 2007 to 2008, he was president of the AFIC (Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance, now France Invest). Mr Misrahi is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Peter Gale
Head of Private Equity and Chief Investment Officer at Hermes GPE
Peter Gale is responsible for private equity investment decisions and for all aspects of Hermes GPE’s private equity investment process. He leads the co-investment programme and is responsible for decisions taken with regard to allocation and strategy for individual client portfolio construction. Peter has more than 30 years of investment experience, including 25 years in private equity. He is a member of the Hermes GPE Management Committee and Chairman of the Private Equity Investment Committee.
James Mara
Managing Director of GE Asset Management in Stamford for more than 20 years
During that time, James Mara built a $2bn international private equity business, raised and managed two international LBO funds and underwrote numerous investments in Europe, Russia, North and Southeast Asia and Latin America. Previously, Mr Mara was based in London, where he spent five years as Deputy treasurer providing financing to General Electric’s international mergers and acquisition teams.
Maurice Tchenio
Founder of Altamir, Chairman and CEO of Altamir Gérance until 30 April 2026
Maurice Tchenio is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Altaroc Partners SA and Chairman of the AlphaOmega Foundation. He began his career as an Assistant Professor of Finance at HEC, before joining the Institut de Développement Industriel (IDI) in Paris, an investment bank specialising in equity investments. In 1972, he founded Apax Partners with Ronald Cohen and Alan Patricof. Today Apax Partners is a global private equity leader. From 1972 to 2010, he was the Chairman and CEO of Apax Partners SA, the Group’s French arm. In 1995, Maurice founded Altamir, a listed private equity company. In 2010, he created AlphaOmega, a venture philanthropy foundation recognised for its public interest. He is a co-founder of the AFIC (Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance, renamed France Invest in 2018) and former director of EVCA (European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, renamed Invest Europe).
Romain Tchenio
Chairman and CEO of Toupargel Groupe since 2017
Romain Tchenio is a graduate of ESCP Europe. He began his career as a financial analyst with Pricewaterhouse Coopers Corporate Finance. He joined Toupargel in 2004 as an agency manager in Marseille. He was appointed Southwest Regional Manager in 2006 then Sales Director, a position he held from 2010 to 2013. He was named CEO of Toupargel Groupe in July 2013 and Chairman and CEO in early January 2017.
Altamir Gérance is responsible for identifying, evaluating and making decisions regarding the Company’s investments and divestments.
Eric Sabia
Chief Financial Officer of Altamir
Eric Sabia has a significant experience in Private Equity, having spent eight years at Fondinvest Capital, a funds of funds Management Company, where he held the position of Deputy CFO from March 2008, and CFO from January 2013. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Altamir in August 2016.
Claire Peyssard-Moses
Investor Relations and Communications Director of Altamir
Claire Peyssard Moses has been Altamir’s Investor Relations and Communications Director since October 2018. She was previously Director of Investor Relations and Financial Control at Verallia, where she managed successive refinancing operations as part of the LBO led by Apollo.