Yann Decroos
Private Equity at Calista Direct Investors S.A.
Yann Decroos
Private Equity at Calista Direct Investors S.A.
Luxembourg
Overview
Work Experience
Private Equity
2024 - Current
Direct & fund investments
Venture Capital Investor
2019 - 2023
Early stage Venture Capital fund, covering Europe and Israel. Early backer of 5 unicorns: Skype, Wix, WalkMe, K Health and TBOL.
Mentor
2019 - 2023
Mentor to participants: Provided training, 1-1 mentoring and led workshops (50+ attendees) on dealflow analysis.
Customer Success Manager
2017 - 2018
Social intelligence platform (SaaS) providing AI-powered listening and analytics across all media types. High growth tech startup that grew from 100 to 250+ employees while I was there. • Managed own 25 clients: Increased revenue by up- and cross selling accounts, built social listening and benchmarking dashboards, onboarded new clients, personal client churn rate of 0% • Implementation of sentiment analysis: Built emotion, product and issue filters in back-end using Python to apply to results • Consulted clients from varying industries and transformed their online strategy by improving their social listening capabilities (often from scratch)
Consultant Funds Banking
2016 - 2016
Corporate Finance Intern
2016 - 2016
Consulting Intern
2015 - 2015
Trading Intern Financial Markets
2014 - 2014
Co Founder
2012 - 2014
• A company creating high quality aluminium cases for the iPhone • Finalist of the national entrepreneurial competition (Young Entreprise)
Financial Communication Intern
2013 - 2013