Thierry Déau, Chief Executive Officer, Meridiam Infrastructure
Thierry Déau has 15 years of international experience in the project finance community. Mr. Déau is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Meridiam Infrastructure, a €600m private equity fund focused exclusively on Public Private Partnership (PPP) investments in Europe and North America. As Meridiam’s founder, Mr. Déau has been responsible for the development of the fund since October of 2004 while he served as Director at AECOM Global Group until November of 2005. At Meridiam, Mr. Déau has been involved in the asset acquisition pursuit of many PPP projects throughout Europe and North America including successful junior fund participations in the Limerick Tunnel in Ireland, the Vienna A5 Ostregion in Austria, and a series of primary health care facilities under the LIFT scheme in the UK, as well as the A2 Motorway in Poland.
Prior to his involvement at Meridiam, Mr. Déau served as the CEO of Egis Projects from 2001 to 2004. While with Egis Projects, Mr. Déau managed two companies: Egis Projects and Transroute, (part of the Caisse des Dépôts Group) totalling approximately 80 employees (1,267 with operation services subsidiaries), with consolidated revenues of €76 million in 2003. Mr. Déau also served as a member of the group Risk Assessment Committee and Strategic Committee. Before becoming the CEO, Mr. Déau headed the Project Finance Division from 2000 to 2001. Under Mr. Déau, the Group successfully closed the A2 (Poland), SCUT Interior Norte (Portugal), Manila North Tollway (Philippines), Daejeon Riverside Expressway (Korea), South Australian Ports, A28 (France), and received various awards in the realm of international project finance.
From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Déau served as a Project Director for the bidding and development of greenfield projects. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Déau held the position of Expatriate Project Director, representing the group in the Philippines.
Mr. Déau holds a degree from Ecole Nationale des Ponts de Chaussées where he studied civil engineering and project finance.
MERIDIAM Infrastructure
The Meridiam Infrastructure Fund is a €600m infrastructure fund with a maturity of 25 years, designed for PPP infrastructure assets within OECD member countries with the strategic focus of the fund being primarily on assets in Europe and North America. Meridiam invests predominately in new primary projects, with a smaller proportion of investment into secondary assets in the transportation, public accommodation and environmental sectors. Meridiam has the capacity to provide equity and junior debt, including mezzanine debt and develop new projects via various innovative financing solutions.
Meridiam achieved its first closing in late 2006 being sponsored by Group Crédit Agricole (France) and Aecom Technology Corporation (USA). Since inception, Meridiam has successfully secured positions in four PPP deals: the Limerick Tunnel in Ireland (awarded 2006 European PPP Deal of the Year by Project Finance Magazine) and the Vienna A5 Ostregion in Austria (awarded 2006 Bond Deal of the Year by Infrastructure Journal), a series of primary health care facilities under the LIFT scheme in the UK, and the A2 Motorway in Poland.
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