Jean François joined Meridiam in 2010 and has over ten years’ expertise in the infrastructure sector in Europe, North America and Africa. Prior to joining Meridiam, he was Vice President for Antin Infrastructure Partners, where he worked on a number of transactions in the energy, telecom and transport sectors.

He previously worked with Vinci Concessions and Autoroutes du Sud de la France as Structured Finance Manager and also spent four years with Bouygues Construction as Project Finance Manager.

He has taken leading roles in various infrastructure projects such as Leslys, light rail airport express link (France), A41 Motorway Concession (France), M5 Motorway PPP (Hungary), Oosterweel road link project (Belgium), Le Mans Stadium (France) and Prado-Sud Tunnel (France).

Jean-Francois began his career in 1998 with Banque Worms Capital Corporation in the syndication loan department in New York, where he was involved in numerous transactions in various sectors, including infrastructure transactions. Jean-Francois graduated from Dauphine University in Paris (Master in Banking and Finance).