London

Raymond Svider joined in 1992 from Wasserstein Perella & Co., where he was a vice president and acting head of the French business, specializing in arranging mergers and acquisitions. He was also the local representative for a European mezzanine fund. His prior positions include periods at Morgan Stanley and the Boston Consulting Group. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago and is a graduate of both the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. He speaks French and English.