Meet our leadership team
Farboud Tavangar
Chief Investment Officer
Sophie-Aurore Venon
Portfolio Management
Alexander Kenna
Portfolio Management
Farboud Tavangar
Chief Investment Officer
- Responsible for overall activities, including portfolio optimization, credit oversight and investor relations.
- Joined LCM as part of its founding by Crédit Lyonnais in 2001.
- Received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University and a degree in mechanical/electrical engineering from ESTP (École Supérieure des Travaux Publics).
Sophie-Aurore Venon
Portfolio Management
- Focuses on credit selection, portfolio risk optimization and strategies to mitigate risk migration. Conceived credit analysis and management tools of CAPM.
- Joined LCM in 2003 as an Analyst and took over as Chief of Credit Management in 2006.
- Received a Master’s degree in Finance from EM Lyon (Lyon Graduate School of Business).
Alexander Kenna
Portfolio Management
- Focuses on portfolio risk optimization, special situations and workouts.
- Joined LCM in 2003.
- Received a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.
Francois Laberenne
Portfolio Management
Chris D’Auria
Business Development
Marc Schluraff
Engineering, Analytics and Controls
Francois Laberenne
Portfolio Management
- Focuses on portfolio risk optimization and capital markets activities.
- LCM in 2004, first focusing on middle-office and CLO structure optimization, then on credit analysis for 10 years.
- Received a Master in Finance from University of Paris-Dauphine.
Chris D’Auria
Business Development
- Manages all fundraising, investor management and product development activities.
- Joined LCM in 2016.
- Received a Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University.
Marc Schluraff
Engineering, Analytics and Controls
- Designed and developed LCM’s proprietary fully integrated operational platform CAPM.
- Joined LCM in 2005.
- Received a Master of Business Administration from ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) in France. .
Dominique Ithurralde
Structural Optimization and Data Management
Erwan Maliverney
Credit Analysis
Dominique Ithurralde
Structural Optimization and Data Management
- Designed and developed analytics modules for LCM’s proprietary fully integrated operational platform CAPM.
- Joined LCM in 2008.
- Received a Master’s Degree in Financial Engineering from University of Paris-XII and a Bachelor of Sciences in Mathematics from University of Marseille
Erwan Maliverney
Credit Analysis
- Heads credit analysis.
- Joined LCM in 2011.
- Received a Master of Science in Corporate Finance from the École de Management, Lyon, a Bachelor of Arts from Middlesex University Business School and is a graduate from Centre d’Études Superieures de Management in Reims.