Vendis Capital

Investment Director based in Paris, HEC graduate who started in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, then private equity at Five Arrows, followed by strategic and operational roles at Groupe Casino. She supports founders and management teams as a sparring partner at Vendis.

Investment Director based in Hilversum, a former professional tennis player with civil engineering and sustainable energy studies who worked in private equity and strategy consulting and at HAL Investments before joining Vendis to focus on consumer private equity.

Cedric Olbrechts is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Vendis Capital. He invests in and serves as a director for small and mid-sized consumer-focused companies in Europe, with a focus on the consumer goods, retail, and internet sectors. His areas of work include private equity, strategy, growth, international expansion, M&A, financing, structuring, and crisis management.

Investment Manager based in Hilversum who began in strategy consulting focused on digital growth for consumer businesses, working across Brazil, Spain and Singapore before moving to execution-focused roles. At Vendis he supports portfolio companies on market entry, marketing, retail operations and applying data and AI.

Associate based in Brussels with a business engineering background who began her career in investment banking in London before joining Vendis to work with founders and management teams on growth.

Partner based in Paris who started in M&A at an American bank in Paris and joined the founders building Vendis in 2009. He moved back to France in 2021 to accelerate the firm's development there.

Managing Partner based in Brussels who taught in Rwanda, ran an office in Asia, completed an MBA at INSEAD and worked at McKinsey before launching Net Fund Europe and co-founding Vendis. He leads firm guidance and Vendis Transition, the sustainability-focused small-cap fund.

CFO based in Brussels with a commercial engineering background and an MBA from Chicago Booth. She previously held corporate finance roles at a large multinational and was CFO of IMS Health in France before joining Vendis to oversee finance operations.

Investment Manager based in Hilversum, a former competitive sailor for the Netherlands who spent over six years at McKinsey and earned an MBA at Kellogg before joining Vendis to back growth-stage consumer brands.

Controller based in Brussels who began in audit, including over four years at KPMG Luxembourg specializing in investment funds and management companies. He joined Vendis as Controller in October 2024.

Office Manager based in Brussels with a long career supporting C-level executives at international companies as an executive assistant before joining Vendis.

Managing Partner based in Hilversum who built consumer brands at FrieslandCampina and Nestlé before moving into private equity. He partners with founders on brand building and helped develop Vendis into its current form.

Junior Associate based in Brussels with a Chemical Engineering background and studies at Vlerick Business School, plus an internship at CVC Capital Partners. He focuses on consumer businesses in the Belgian and Nordic markets.