Jolt Capital adds Silicon Valley-based MD

Private Equity Wire

Jolt Capital, a private equity firm specialising in European growth deeptech investments, has added Valéry Talma as Managing Director US – Investor Relations to its investor relations team. 

In his new role, Talma will lead US fundraising efforts and participate in the M&A and exit programme for the firm’s existing portfolio.  

Talma was most recently President and Chief Revenue Officer at QueensField AI Technologies, where he led the development, marketing and sales of AI and quantitative investment products and services to asset managers, TAMPs and RIAs.

He started his career as a banker at JP Morgan, UBS and Crédit Agricole CIB, in Paris and London, executing over $70bn worth of transactions in M&A, debt and equity capital markets and structured finance.

He later served as Head of Investment Banking at HSBC in Saudi Arabia and as Deputy General Manager at Gulf Bank in Kuwait. In 2018, Talma moved to Silicon Valley, executing venture capital investments for family offices and serving as CEO of quantitative investment company Merlyn.AI.

Jolt Capital’s investor relations team is led by Paris-based General Partner and Chief IR Officer Eric Arnould.  

In a statement, Jean Schmitt, President and Managing Partner said that Talma’s appointment emphasised “how strategic the [Silicon Valley] region is for Jolt Capital”, given the opening of its North American headquarters in Montreal earlier this month. 

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