Digitalents Capital
Management Team
Jean-Christophe Chopin
Chairman
Provides strategic focus and identifies key market segments and targets
Email Jean-Christophe Chopin- Pioneer entrepreneur at the beginning of Minitel, the forerunner to the internet in France, and successfully distributed financial and insurance products.
- Completed a Joint-Venture with E*Trade to expand into six European countries. Sold his stake in 1999 with an 55x return.
- Co-founded Wifirst in 2002, building the second largest alternative Wifi operator in France and sold majority stake to Mr Bolloré with an IRR > 400%.
- Co-Founded BORN Group with Mansour Ojjeh (TAG, Mc Laren F1), Carlo Micheli (Fastweb) and Guy Forget. Completed Round A in 2007 with Jeffrey Skoll (Co-Founder eBay), Anurag Dikshit (Co-Founder PartyGaming), and Tony Parker.
Pierre Sapin
Managing Director Europe
Focuses on European deal flow, deal negotiation and portfolio monitoring
Email Pierre Sapin- Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs London in 1997 focusing on digital businesses in the Equity Capital Market team.
- Moved to New-York with Goldman Sachs in 1999 to focus on M&A operations in digital sector such as AOL/Time Warner merger, eBay secondary offerings, Yahoo failed offer on Disney.
- Business development and restructuring of digital businesses in UK and Germany from 2001 to 2005.
- Closely involved, from 2006 onward, with the foundation of pan-European and Chinese sport-fashion-lifestyle market place Born.com with founder and CEO Mr Jean-Christophe Chopin in charge of overall business development across Europe with large Internet/ Media partners such as L’Equipe in France, Premiere TV in Germany, Wayn.com in UK and Neteller across Europe.
- Negotiation and portfolio monitoring of 8 companies in the digital space. Co-founder and Partner Europe in 2008 of Digitalents Capital, focused on late stage ecommerce and online financial services for US and Chinese companies looking to expand in Europe.