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"When two forces unite, their efficiency doubles" - ISAAC NEWTON

“We built Chetwode according to this philosophy, by uniting two forces:
that of our equipment and inventory experts with that of our financial experts.
These forces are central to our team and methodology.”

Jean-Baptiste Magnen

our team

Management

Jean-Baptiste Magnen

Managing Partner

Jean-Baptiste Magnen

Managing Partner

Jean-Baptiste has over 35 years cross border structuring experience in the Banking and Finance sectors (BNPP, CACIB). Having worked with Simon Hamilton in creating investment funds and joint venture lessors, he partnered Simon and Chris Jewell in the creation of Chetwode in 2009.
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Simon Hamilton

Managing Partner

Simon Hamilton

Managing Partner

With over 40 years experience in the leasing industry (RBS), Simon established TEAM Ltd in 2002 and founded Chetwode with Jean-Baptiste Magnen and Chris Jewell in 2009, where his cross-border lease structuring experience and wide-ranging contact base are the keys to Chetwode’s success.
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Bas Hoekstra

Managing Partner

Bas Hoekstra

Managing Partner

After more than 25 years of managerial experience in the leasing industry working for asset based lenders and in vendor finance Bas joins Chetwode as Managing Partner
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Natacha Tardy

CFO

Natacha Tardy

CFO

With 15 years’ experience in finance departments in international groups, Natacha is a partner at 2CFinance. As a part-time CFO, she assists companies to structure their finance department and manage their activity. She is CFO at Chetwode.
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Michael Diehl

Senior Advisor

Michael Diehl

Senior Advisor

Michael has over 30 years of experience in financing companies both as an investment banker and as founder of private equity fund Activa Capital. Michael is Senior Advisor to Chetwode.
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Peter Harris

Senior Advisor

Peter Harris

Senior Advisor

Peter is a Chartered Accountant with over twenty years’ experience in the asset rental and leasing business. He is Chairman of Four Winds Partnership, which provides advisory services to international clients on structured leases, asset management and logistics. Peter is Senior Advisor to Chetwode.
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Asset valuation

Christopher Jewell

Equipment director

Christopher Jewell

Equipment director

With over 50 years appraising, buying and selling new and used equipment. Chris is a founder shareholder in Chetwode and heads up our asset valuation, monitoring and remarketing disciplines.
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Jennifer Enright

Equipment expert

Jennifer Enright

Equipment expert

She has spent over 20 years in various asset management roles including Head of Asset Management at Hitachi Capital (UK) PLC. Her role is to add value to the assets of the industrial companies that are pledged as collateral in the Chetwode financings. In addition, she inspects them to ensure that their pledge value is maintained.
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Tom Kelly

Equipment expert

Tom Kelly

Equipment expert

A Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Tom has over 40 professional experience in the appraisal of industrial plant and equipment. He has an extensive experience across a broad range of plant verticals. Since 2009, Tom has been working extensively with Chetwode as a preferred equipment valuation provider in collaboration with Chris Jewell.
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Business development

Yousra Godari

Transaction manager

Yousra Godari

Transaction manager

Having joined Chetwode in 2016, Yousra is experienced in asset financing in different jurisdictions, Yousra has a solid knowledge of portfolio management and sale and leaseback structuring. Yousra is a transaction manager in charge of origination and structuring of financing transactions.
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Ali Haba

Business Development

Ali Haba

Business Development

After various experiences in the commercial and financial field, Ali joined Chetwode in 2018 as an apprentice and is now a business manager. He is a graduate of the IESEG School of Management Grande Ecole programme with a speciality in corporate finance.
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Christine Wiart

Business Development

Christine Wiart

Business Development

An agronomic engineer by training, Christine joined Chetwode’s Front Office in 2016 as a Transaction Manager, in charge of supporting the implementation and follow up of Chetwode transactions.
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Mael Guégan

Business Development

Mael Guégan

Business Development

After 5 years’ experience at Bpifrance, where he was in charge of supporting SMEs’ investment projects through structured financing, Maël joined Chetwode’s Front Office early 2020, in charge of business development.
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Stéphane Rigaut

Business development

Stéphane Rigaut

Business development

After 13 years of financial management at Chargeurs Wool, world leader in wool trading and combing, he joined Chargeurs Interlining, the world leader in technical interlining textile as a Chief Financial Officer, before being appointed Executive Vice-Director and finally CEO. Stéphane was a Chetwode customer for more than 10 years.
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Adrien Bertron

Credit analyst

Adrien Bertron

Credit analyst

Adrien holds a Master's degree in Corporate Finance from Kedge Business School's Grande Ecole programme. After various internships (M&A, Account Manager), Adrien will join Chetwode in 2021 as a Credit Analyst.
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Marketing and operations

Mike Thorley

Head of Middle office

Mike Thorley

Head of Middle office

Before moving into the leasing and finance sector, Michael spent 17 years in the insurance industry and joined TEAM (now Chetwode) in 2004. As Head of Middle Office, Mike is in charge of the implementation of the new financing transactions and management of joint venture leasing companies.
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Mireille Leroy

Executive Assistant & Office Manager

Mireille Leroy

Executive Assistant & Office Manager

With over 30 years professional experience in various business sectors, Mireille is well versed in administrative management and organisation. After 4 years as personal assistant to Simon Hamilton, Mireille joined Chetwode’s Back Office in 2019 as Executive Assistant and Office Manager.
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Céline Huet

Administrative assistant

Céline Huet

Administrative assistant

After 10 years experience in book selling, Céline embarked on a retraining plan to become a management, sale and accounting assistant. Céline worked in the public and social sector. She is now assisting ACTENE and CHETWODE in the implementation of stock financing transactions.
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Partners in France and abroad

Jean-Paul Lachaud

Business Development France

Jean-Paul Lachaud

Business Development

After 5 years’ experience in business development in the food industry, Jean-Paul joined BNP Paribas (4 years), then worked as regional manager for Eurogage, before creating his own company, specialised in stock financing. Jean-Paul is a Chetwode representative in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes / Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regions.
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Emmanuelle TENDERO

Business Development France

Emmanuelle TENDERO

Business Development

Emmanuelle is a financing expert with over 25 years of experience in the banking industry. After more than 13 years of experience in adjudicating credit applications, Emmanuelle has a broad knowledge of all financing techniques.
Together with Réginald Berio Revello, Emmanuelle has created her own structure specialised in the search of financing for companies. Emmanuelle is the Chetwode representative for the PACA region.
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Réginald BERIO REVELLO

Business Development France

Réginald BERIO REVELLO

Business Development

Passionate about customer relations, Réginald has more than 25 years of experience in sales. He started his career at Xerox and then continued for more than 20 years at Ricoh France, where he held various key positions. He became an expert in leasing thanks to his previous experiences.
Réginald created, with Emmanuelle Tendero, his own structure specialised in the search of financing for companies. Réginald is the Chetwode representative for the PACA region.
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Renaud Simons

Business Development Italy

Renaud Simond

Business Development Italy

Renaud graduated from the University of Namur in 1998 with a Master's degree in Economic and Social Sciences. He has worked in the past for many European financial institutions such as Generale Bank, Fortis Bank and GE Capital. He is also Executive Director of Mitigram and an independent financial consultant in various fields such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, etc. He joins us for the commercial development of Chetwode in Italy.
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Knut Espeler

Business Development German-speaking countries

Knut Espeler

Business Development

A graduate of the Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Banque de Paris, Knut mainly held the position in Germany of COO of @BNP Paribas Real Estate, Head of @BNP Paribas Bank Leasing Services and CEO of @Fortis Lease before pursuing his European career in asset finance as Country Head Germany of @ABN Amro Lease, Head of Market Unit Solutions @Deutsche Leasing and MD Sales of @Comco Leasing. Today, Knut Espeler owns the company @InvestorAppetite.
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Dominique Gaudray

Business Development France

Dominique Gaudray

Business Development France

Dominique, after 25 years of experience in banking and corporate finance, has a wealth of experience as CFO of several companies in various sectors and brings her expertise in the search for financing through the mobilisation of stocks. Dominique is the Chetwode representative, with Jean-Paul Lachaud, for the Auvergne Rhône Alpes/Bourgogne Franche Comté area.

Philippe Lapeyre

Business Development

Philippe Lapeyre

Business Development

I have held key management positions in structured finance in Europe and Canada. My experience includes risk and asset management. With over 25 years' experience in building and profitably managing very large operating lease portfolios, my management expertise is well recognised. I also specialise in counterparty risk management and the design of risk strategies. that have been successfully implemented and executed.
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  • contact@chetwode.fr
  • 58 bis rue La Boétie, 75008 Paris, France

About CHETWODE

Chetwode specializes in strategic industrial asset financing (production equipment, inventories…) and has arranged more than 150 equipment financing transactions for a total amount of nearly 1 billion euros.

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