Patrick Gavoty is Managing Director & Head of Sustainability at Apheon, a midcap pan-European private equity fund (with a current portfolio of 20 companies across Europe, representing a group of more than €2.0 billion sales and 18,000 employees). As Head of Sustainability, Patrick Gavoty is responsible for defining Apheon’s approach to sustainability and supervising ESG initiatives in its portfolio companies and offices throughout Europe; he is also in charge of Apheon’s in-house foundation, Apheon Philanthropy. Patrick joined Apheon 12 years ago after 4 years spent at Goldman Sachs in London. Alongside his professional career, Patrick Gavoty has had multiple personal commitments both in large organizations such as UNICEF, the United Nations’ entity dedicated to children, where he was responsible in Paris for coordinating their youth program, and in self-developed charities in relation to underserved young people or children affected with cancer. In 2019, Patrick was awarded with the ESSEC Pioneer Prize, which rewards each year the excellence, humanitarianism and societal commitments of a graduate of this French business school.

He have spent 4 years at the French Treasury and then 15 years in technology investment banking in Paris & London (Societe Generale, Perella Weinberg Partners, Sarlat Advisory) before participating in 2020 in the launch of a hedge fund as Partner, head of Net Zero investment and ESG officer.

He is passionate about everything that can reduce human footprint. He is following a plant-based and zero-waste lifestyle. When not investing he is working at the community kitchen garden or listening to electronic music.

He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale d’Administration. He is 47 years old and both a French & British citizen.