Private Equity 4.0: Reinventing Value Creation

About the authors

Dr Benoît Leleux

Dr Leleux is the Stephan Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at IMD in Lausanne (Switzerland), where he was director of the MBA programme and director of Research and Development. He was previously Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD (France) and Associate Professor and Zubillaga Chair in Finance and Entrepreneurship at Babson College (MA, USA). He obtained his Ph.D. at INSEAD, specializing in Corporate Finance and Venture Capital. He is recognized as a leading specialist in entrepreneurship, venture capital, private equity and corporate venturing, in particular in emerging markets. He also has a strong interest in family businesses and has been the director of the IMD-Lombard Odier Global Family Business Award since 2008. His latest books include Investing Private Capital in Emerging and Frontier Market SMEs (IFC, 2009) and Nurturing Science-Based Start-ups: An International Case Perspective (Springer Verlag, 2008). Dr Leleux earned an M.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering and an M.Ed. in Natural Sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and an MBA from Virginia Tech (USA). His teaching cases have earned 17 European case writing awards and he has been running executive education programmes and consulting assignments for more than 50 leading global corporations and investment organizations. He is also involved with a number of private equity and venture capital funds as well as numerous start-up ...