Meet The Palico Team

Palico is the FinTech firm revolutionizing how the PE fund community discovers and accesses PE fund opportunities. Our digital marketplace connects buyers with sellers on our secondary platform and LPs with GPs on our primary platform. As we continue shaping the future of private equity, we are always looking for talented people who like to work collaboratively towards a common goal.

Palico Leadership Team

Antoine Dréan Founder & Chairman

Antoine Dréan is the chairman and CEO of Palico. He has been a “serial entrepreneur” in the private equity space for almost thirty years — founding Triago & Mantra. Convinced that private equity should leverage technology more effectively and develop even more rapidly, Antoine also launched Palico in 2012. Antoine graduated from Wharton (MBA’92) and served on the school’s Board from 2010 to 2020. He was Chairman of Wharton’s Europe, Middle East & Africa Board for four years, from 2016 to 2020.

Christopher Jeffery General Manager

Chris is the General Manager of Palico since July 2022. Chris originally joined Palico in 2019 as the Head of Marketing after getting his MBA at INSEAD in 2018. Previously Chris was the Finance Director of an experiential marketing agency based in NYC and LA that grew from 25 employees to +100 in staff during his tenure. He originally built his career working in finance at the international communications conglomerate, WPP.

Myriam Prat Chief Operating Officer

Myriam is Chief Operating Officer at Palico. Prior to joining Palico, Myriam worked at the prestigious PE firm Ardian where she started in the investor relations team in London and then joined the buyout investment team in Paris, therefore covering all aspects of a private equity fund life cycle. Myriam also worked for Mantra Investment Partners, being in charge of business development and investor relations. Myriam has a business degree from EDHEC business school.

Hugo Hasson Head of Tech

Hugo is the Head of Tech at Palico. He started his career as a software developer at the large IT firm, Sopra Group. He subsequently moved to a startup, AODocs. After 4 years at AODocs, where the firm scaled from 10 to 150 employees, he decided to take his expertise in cloud computing, programming, and project management to a new challenge, Palico. Hugo graduated with a degree in engineering from EFREI Paris with a specialization in computer science.

Paloma Hernandez Head of Sales

Paloma is the Head of Sales at Palico. After working in Operations and Account Management for Thomson Reuters and Prequin, Paloma became Head of Sales at Palico, driving client growth within the global PE community and establishing key commercial partnerships with LP & GP actors. Paloma holds two BAs from UP Comillas ICADE-ICAI in Madrid and an MA in International Political Economy from King’s College London.

Our Values

Client Obsessed

Everything starts with our clients, our community of PE investors. Our products and services are designed, developed, and tested based on direct client feedback. We take inputs from our clients seriously and use them to continuously improve and deliver a purpose-built product for our PE secondary and primary marketplaces.

Innovation

Our goal is to challenge the status quo and shape the future of private equity. We use technology and our customer-centric approach to create solutions that streamline processes, increase accessibility, and provide a superior experience for professional PE investors.

Security

We believe that protecting our users' data and assets is paramount. From state-of-the-art technology to strict protocols, we are committed to maintaining the trust our users place in us at the standards expected in the PE industry. Providing a secure experience is at the core of everything we do.

Access & Transparency

Without compromising on security, we fundamentally believe that transparency is key to PE's growth and success. Our commitment is to build a platform that allows more visibility for buyers and sellers to optimize transactions on our secondary marketplace. And for LPs to easily discover GPs on our primary marketplace.

Palico at Private Equity conferences

At Palico we are continuously participating in some of the largest PE conferences across the globe. Sharing insights and thought leadership from the leading online marketplace for the private equity community.

Want to join Palico?

Palico embraces a culture that is young, multicultural, and dynamic. Palico is looking for talented individuals with a passion for innovation and technology to take on the challenge of disrupting the very traditional private equity industry.