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Ben Flammang founded Beninvest in 1992 in New York and opened the Geneva
office in 2000, the Brussels office in 2004,
London in
2007.
Ben has over 20 years of strategic international business
and financial development expertise. His strengths lie in taking a fresh
approach in structuring deals and in using unique leverage ideas in
marketing and business development linked to strong personal relations with
people coming from very different horizons.
As a hobby, he published the first English
buyer’s guide in the world of new prestigious wristwatches. His 4
books sold in 48 countries.
He started his career at IBM Belgium, restructured a
money-losing R&D/Manufacturing telecom company in Raleigh
North Carolina and moved on to New York to create
several companies. He is a recognized advisor for Investment Fund
Structuring and Fund raising. He advised the Hinduja Family Group and its
AMAS Bank on investment banking. He
jumpstarted the NY investment banking office at former Wextrust
Capital.
He advised ADB PE Ltd, the fund manager of the Diamond
Value Chain Fund I from the Antwerp Diamond Bank Group.
He was a longtime advisor for Foreign Trade to the
Belgian Government.
Ben received his B.A. in Applied Economics from ICHEC
in Brussels.
Ben is fluent in English, Dutch and French and
conversational in German.
He visited 39 different countries. This includes some
adventure trips: crossing the Sahara desert with 4 friends at age 17 in a
VW Combi, all major cities of Brazil in 35 days
and 14,000 miles at age 21 and NY-LA on the motorbike in 1990.
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Michael Atzmon
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Michael Atzmon,
Partner, runs the Brussels
office since 2004.
He founded SIXX
Partners together with Ben as a venture partner in 2004, which merged with Matar Capital in September 2008. Prior to that he worked for three years
as Co-Managing Director at Lion Venture Partners, an investment clubs
management firm specializing in raising European funds for foreign
start-ups. He was responsible for the creation of the affiliation with the Halman Aldubi Group, the
largest private provident funds group in Israel.
He also worked at
Catapult, a business development firm specializing in helping Israeli
companies to penetrate the European markets, as Development Manager where
his main responsibilities were deal flow creation.
He holds BBA in
Business Administration form the United Business Institutes, Brussels, a BA from the University of Wales and has followed executive MBA
Classes at the United Business Institutes.
Michael is a board
member of the Belgium, Luxembourg
– Israel Chamber of Commerce (CCBLI).
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Philippe Elghouayel
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Mr. Philippe Elghouayel is a
NY based Partner active mainly in North America, North Africa and Eastern Europe
Philippe is a serial entrepreneur and is Chief Executive Officer of UPE
Global, New and Innovative Construction Systems and Technology, Montreal, Canada
(CELLULAR CONCRETE); the main shareholder, Le Royaume
des Huilerie Agricole,
Olive Oil Production Plant, El Hania, Tunisia;
Chairman of the Board Interexpert-USA Inc.
Philippe had a long career at the UN and at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tunisia:
United Nations Mission for a Referendum in Western
Sahara (MINURSO)
United Nations Office for
Project Services (UNOPS)
United Nations Development
Program (UNDP)
He has been based in Moscow-Russia,
Egypt, Yemen, Tunis,
Beijing, Paris
and Brussels
Philippe
is Chevalier de l’Ordre de la République, Tunisia (national decoration for
civilians in recognition of their exceptional service to the country), 1985
Philippe has a Masters in Political Sciences from
Sciences Po in Paris,
Major in International Relations, specialization in International
Economics. He speaks French, English, Italian, some Arabic and some Russian.
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Michel Cornis
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Mr. Michel Cornis
is a Capital Markets Associate
After six years of international marketing and corporate
finance with Du Pont de Nemours and Apeco in
Europe, Michel moved to the securities industry and spent over fifteen
years as an institutional stockbroker with several UK and US firms, among
which Charterhouse, Prudential-Bache and Lehman Brothers, the latter as SVP
International, Head of the European Equities Sales for Switzerland. Also
Head of Institutional Sales at Index Securities (now Index Ventures) in Geneva until 1995.
In 1995,
Mr. Cornis founded Cornis Consult Finance to
provide Investor Relations consulting and
financing assistance to
growth companies and traditional or alternative funds.
Mr. Cornis graduated with a B.Sc. of
civil engineering and a M.Sc. of transportation engineering from the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale) in Lausanne, followed by post-grad financial and
marketing studies at HEC in Lausanne and at
the University
of California.
Mr. Cornis is Fluent in English, French, Italian,
Romanian and conversational in Spanish and Portuguese.
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Jerome B. Alenick
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Mr. Jerome B. Alenick is a Real Estate Partner
Mr. Alenick has and had a long and successful career
in real estate. Between 1980 and
1990 he was Senior Vice President for Acquisitions and Finance at
Silverstein Properties (ref. WTC-Twin
Towers in NY).
Between 1982 and 2002 Mr. Alenick taught at the at the Faculty of The Real Estate Institute of New
York University.
Under Jerome B. Alenick Investment and
Financial Services, currently active, he has following references:
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7 World Trade Center, NY, 700,000 sq.ft., $700M
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Savannah Bay, B.W.I., 750 acre site
development with a Jack Nicklaus Signature Resort anchored by two Mandarin
Oriental Hotels and 600 villas and condominiums
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Perth
Amboy, NJ,
2100 condominiums, 250,000 sq.ft.
of retail, $600M
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Rye, NY, 110 unit condominium
conversion, $45M
Mr. Alenick graduated from Lafayette College,
from the School of Law at the University
of Michigan and has an LL.B. and
J.D. from the School of Law of Rutgers
University
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