Go4Venture | Our Team & Partners

Go4Venture's Principals have over 70 man-years of experience in technology finance.

Jean-Michel Deligny
Managing Director
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Jean-Michel Deligny is the Founder and Managing Director of Go4Venture. Created in 2000, Go4Venture is an investment bank specialising in structuring and executing growth strategies for fast-growing innovative companies and their shareholders. Over the past 10 years, Go4Venture has become particularly well-known for its international equity private placements services, where it has reached a position of leadership, especially in the software, telecom and digital media sectors. Jean-Michel has over 20 years of investment banking and European technology industry experience. Following an initial career as a strategy consultant with Coopers and Lybrand, Jean-Michel, moved to investment banking in the early 1990s, first with Broadview International, the technology and media focused M&A advisory firm and then with UBS. At Broadview, Jean-Michel worked on over 35 public and private transactions in the technology and IT services sectors. He then joined UBS as European Head of Technology Investment Banking, where he set-up the European operation of the bank’s Global Technology Group and was responsible for deal origination and execution across Europe, Israel and South Africa. Jean-Michel has established himself as one of the most respected professionals and networkers in European Technology Finance, and is regularly invited to speak at key international events. He holds an MBA from Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) business school, Paris, France.

Jean-Yves Quentel
Director
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Jean-Yves is an experienced technology start-up and venture capital executive with more than 13 years of experience on both sides of the eco-system. After starting his career in 1992 in Moscow, Jean-Yves joined in 1994 the Paris office of Atlas Venture, a trans-Atlantic, high-tech venture capital firm, as an Investment Analyst. From 1994 to 1999, Jean-Yves worked on European and US software and consumer services transactions such as Ilog (Nasdaq: ILOG), AlloCine, now owned by Vivendi, SpotFire, recently acquired by TIBCO, Castle Networks (later sold to Siemens) and Omnia Communications (sold to Ciena). In 1999, Jean-Yves left Atlas Venture to join the expanding Europatweb as a Senior Vice President and one of the Internet holding company's first European employees. While at Europatweb, Jean-Yves, in addition to being actively involved in growing the global Europatweb team, led and monitored a number of investments, mostly in the consumer-to-consumer auction space. One of his deals, EachNet, was sold to eBay in 2002. In 2002, Jean-Yves joined Logispring, a venture capital fund focused on supply chain technology investments as a Partner where he led the fund's investments in SeeWhy (real-time business intelligence; UK), Solsoft (network security policy management; France) and Xterprise (RFID integration services; US). He was also closely involved in the investment in Optiant, a Boston-based provider of supply chain optimization software. Jean-Yves is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC), one of France's Grandes Ecoles of business.

Justin Stebbins
Associate Director
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Justin joined Go4Venture in 2010 after working in Silicon Valley, California, at Pagemill Partners, a Technology Investment Bank, providing corporate financial advisory services in the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Placements, and Valuation, and at SVB Capital, a Venture Capital firm, investing in early and growth stage technology companies seeking growth capital. Justin began his career at Intel. While in Silicon Valley, he helped develop The GLOW Foundation, a non-profit start up focused on providing financial literacy to underprivileged youth. In addition to his experiences in Silicon Valley, Justin spent a year in South America providing financial advisory to renewable energy projects (solar and hydro) and Carbon Decisions International, a start-up focused on carbon-offset projects in tropical forests. Justin attended the Raj Soin School of Business at Wright State University, where he earned a double bachelors of science in Accounting and Finance and a minor in Economics. He also speaks Spanish.

Andrew Amiel
Analyst
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Andrew graduated from the NYU Stem School of Business with a double major in International Business and Finance, whilst also taking a class at the investment banking institute in an intensive valuation and modeling course based on private equity transactions. Although only recently graduated, Andrew has secured an impressive amount of experience through internships - Working at BNP Paribas (Lon) as part of the FIG team, Alegro Capital (Lon), Messier Partners (NY), Merrill Lynch (NY) as a Financial Advisor, Laidlaw & Co (NY) as a Stock Broker, Elite Property Group (NY) Associate/Analyst, Stars & Stripes (Belgium/China) - selling and distributing Diamonds to clients worldwide. Andrew is also able to speak 5 languages.

Friederike Humphrey
Office Manager
friederike.humphrey [AT] go4venture [DOT] com
Friederike joined Go4Venture in 2010. Before Go4Venture she spent a number of years at Executive Interim Management, an executive search firm, as Office Manager. Prior to this, she worked in marketing at Language Line Services, a leading language solutions company, for over 5 years. Friederike holds a Bachelor in Marketing Communications and also speaks fluent German.

Ian McLoughlin
Special Advisor
ian.mcloughlin [AT] go4venture [DOT] com
Ian combines private equity and financial engineering expertise with a background in technology. Formerly at Allianz Capital Partners (the dedicated private equity arm of one of the world's largest insurers) Ian was part of the private equity team which grew the business from a start-up to one of the biggest German private equity operations. Prior to that, Ian worked at Nikko Europe in their principal investment division. Ian has a PhD in computer modelling from Imperial College, London.