EMMANuEL BEtH Senior Partner ESL & Network France
Emmanuel Beth joined ESL & Network as an associate in November 2013. Mr Beth is primarily responsible for developing the office’s activity in relation to Africa. His former roles include Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Burkina Faso, Director of Cooperation and Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Lieutenant General of the Army. He is an expert in the continent of Africa and has led missions to Djibouti, Chad and the Ivory Coast. In 2000, he joined the Office of the Prime Minister at Matignon, serving under Lionel Jospin and later Jean-Pierre Raffarin. He became the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Army, with special responsibility for crisis management, for Africa and for monitoring the Army. Mr Beth was later responsible for strategic planning and joint military operations at the Ministry of Defence before moving in 2006 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served as Director of Security and Defence Cooperation until 2012. In this role, he was responsible for all French cooperation activities relating to security and defence in over one hundred countries.
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DOMINIQuE LEBLANC Senior Partner Member of the ESL & Network Holding Supervisory Board
Dominique Leblanc is a graduate of the HEC Paris business school, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA, National School of Administration). In 1979 he joined the Ministry of Industry (Department of Mechanical, Metallurgical and Electrical Industries) and, in 1984, the Ministry of Economics and Finance (Department of the Treasury). In 1988 he joined the Société des Bourses Françaises, today known as NYSE-Euronext, as Deputy Director of Products and Operations, later becoming Director of Market Promotion, Vice-President and Deputy Managing Director. In 2001, he became Deputy Managing Director of Viel et Cie, and in 2003, Deputy Managing Director of FinInfo SA. In May 2008 he created the consulting company Information & Finance Agency S.A.S., a member of ESL & Network, specialising in market finance and the valuation of companies, and of which he is the CEO. Dominique Leblanc has served as President of the French Federation of Investment Clubs since 2003, and is President of Wansquare.