Valéry Huot, Managing Partner, CDC Innovation
Valéry holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (X90).He started his career in Australia, working in a joint R&D department with Sydney University on CDMA mobile architectures. Before joining CDC Innovation, Valéry co-led the Fund-of-Fund team at Caisse des Dépôts.
Previously, Valéry was co-heading the SME Financing Office at the French Treasury, with overall responsibility for private equity market development, SME financing and innovation policy fostering. He played a leading role in laying the foundations for the creation of incubators, early stage funds and public fund-of-funds.
Prior to that, Valéry worked for the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA), where he was managing the technical team involved in the governmental telecommunications satellite project Syracuse III.