Koen Vanclooster
Common Ground
Roger Delcroix
Common Ground
Pierre Warrant
Common Ground
Marc-Henri Decrop
Common Ground
Harold Vanheel
Common GroundKey-experience:
- A wealth of experience both in corporate finance and business
- Extensive network among companies and financial investors in animal health, food and pet food, agriculture and aquaculture sectors as well as logistics
- Took the lead in many business development projects, strategic acquisitions, integration processes, divestment initiatives, and an important number of other transactions
- Former board member of INVE, a Belgian Holding company specialized in nutritional products for the global agriculture and aquaculture industries
Career history:
- Managing Partner at Capital Advice, a Belgian corporate finance firm specialized in advising mid-market clients
- Global Acquisition Manager at INVE
- Business Unit Manager Manager Premixes at INVE, a unit of 12 companies on 3 continents
- Commercial Manager of the Food and Agricultural sector, and member of the credit approval committee, Rabobank Belgium Corporate Banking
- Sales and Marketing Division of Elanco Benelux – the feed additive and animal health division of Eli Lilly
- Degree in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Louvain
Contact:
- m +32 479 318923
- e roger.delcroix@commonground.be
Key-experience:
- Experienced in the finesses of corporate finance and private equity
- Trusted partner and sounding board to several management teams and board
- Hands-on involved in an important number of landmark transactions
- Combines a mix of detailed financial and analytical expertise with commercial as well as process capabilities in terms of analyzing credit risk, structuring financing proposals in leveraged finance, corporate lending, real estate and project finance, M&A advisory for corporates, holdings, and financial sponsors
- Close relationships with most Benelux banks, investment funds, and private equity players
- Managed private equity investment portfolios, and provided advice to the venture capital and private equity industry
- Expert in alternative financing structures for the (semi-)public sector
Career history:
- Owner and Partner at Becap, an independent private equity investment company specialized in secondary direct transactions
- Director “Merchant Banking” at the Belgian franchise of NIBC Bank
- Different roles in corporate finance and merchant banking at NIBC Bank
- Corporate Officer “Financial Engineering” at Dexia Bank
- MBA degree – Catholic University of Louvain;
- Degree as Commercial Engineer – Master in Finance – Catholic University of Leuven
Contact:
- m +32 475 765273
- e koen.vanclooster@commonground.be
Key-experience:
- Financing: leasing, club deal, public convertible bonds, public right issue, asset based financing, leveraged finance
- Planning and analysis: business plan preparation, scenario analysis
- Project development: project review and analysis, set up of new affiliates, green field, emerging market developments
- M&A: successful closing of numerous buy and sell transaction, joint ventures, mergers, liquidations
- Risk management: Credit risk, Interest rate risk, Currency risk
- Tax planning: dividend plan, capital structure optimization, flow optimizations, valuations
Career history:
- Recticel: Group Director Treasury and M&A, Member of the Group Finance Committee
- Guidant: Europe and Asia Treasury and Tax Manager
- Johnson Controls: Project Manager, EMEA Treasury Manager
- UCB: Finance Manager
- Citibank: Financial Analyst
Contact:
- m +32 473 44 38 89
- e pierre.warrant@commonground.be
Key-experience:
- Financing: public and private debt issues (plain-vanilla and structured) leasing activities securitisation, public rights isssue, acquisition finance, leveraged finance
- Bank relationships management
- Working capital management, factoring schemes
- ALM (leasing operations)
- Risk management (credit, forex, interest rates)
- Tax planning ;
- M&A.
Career history:
- D’Ieteren : member of the Executive management team (Group),
- Head of internal bank and shared services center ;
- Petercam Securities : structured products and private placements ;
- Continental Bank : structured products and private placements ;
- Bank of Tokyo : Credit officer, trade finance ;
- Delhaize (America) : controlling (internship)
Contact:
- m +32 497 57 78 04
- e marc-henri.decrop@commonground.be
Key-experience:
- A highly experienced corporate finance and financial management professional having worked in audit, banking, corporate finance and private equity industry, as well as chief financial officer
- Veteran in developing financial (re-)structuring plans, negotiations with all key stakeholders including unions, and re-establishing the finance function
- Responsible for a number of participations and development of new investment opportunities
- Former board member of Alural Belgium NV, Egemin NV and Haystack International NV
- Former member of the executive board of Engelhardt Gmbh
- Board member of Electrabel Green Projects Flanders cvba, Electrabel Green Projects WWE cvba, Wind4Flanders cvba and FinileK
Career history:
- Member of Sofinim’s development capital committee – Ackermans and van Haaren group, a large Belgian industrial and financial holding
- CFO of the Illochroma Labeling Group, a European label manufacturer for the beverage and food industry
- Deloitte Business Advisory – corporate reorganization practice, providing hands-on advice in the area of corporate restructuring, working capital management and general strategic financial advice
- PwC Corporate Finance – Mergers and acquisition and valuations – responsible for successfully establishing and growing the business recovery practice
- CFO of a family owned industrial building company
- KBC Bank – serving corporate clients in the mid-market segment
- Auditor at Arthur Andersen
- Business and financial courses at the CASE Business School (London) and at the Amsterdam Institute of Finance
- Corporate Finance at EHSAL (Brussels)
- Degree of Commercial Engineer – Master in Finance at the Catholic University of Leuven
Contact:
- m +32 478 585870
- e harold.vanheel@commonground.be