Speakers

Marc Jourlait is seasoned business executive, Private Equity Senior Operating Partner, Chairman of the Board, Board Member, and battle-tested consumer and tech turnaround global CEO.

Jourlait is the Senior Operating Partner at Riverside Private Equity Value Fund. He is Chairman of the Riverside portfolio companies SCRAM Systems, PFB and siffron. Jourlait was recently Chairman of the Board of Avenga, an Oaktree Capital portfolio company, that just sold to KKCG. Jourlait is also Operating Partner for Cathay Capital as well as Executive Chairman of the Board for IMT, one of Cathay Capital’s portfolio companies. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Electrosonic headquartered in London UK.

Before Riverside, Marc was CEO of Kodak Alaris where he stabilized and turned around the business portfolio preparing it for a divestiture. Prior to Kodak Alaris, Marc was Deputy CEO at Navico, a global leader in Marine Electronics, an Altor Private Equity owned portfolio company bought by Goldman Sachs in 2016. Before Navico, Jourlait was Vice President and General Manager of Bose Europe, where he ran the entire €1B European business for Bose.

Previously Jourlait held senior general management, product, and marketing positions over the course of his 35+ year career in some of the world’s leading companies including Apple, HP, Seagate, and Technicolor. With triple citizenship (France, USA, Canada), he resides in Manhattan and has lived and worked in a variety of countries, including France, the United States both in Silicon Valley and New York City, Japan, and Canada. Jourlait holds an MBA from ESCP Paris.