Julien Tizot

CIO at Aras

Speaker

Julien is the CIO of Aras, a single Spanish Family Office based in Abu Dhabi. In his role, he is responsible for investments across asset classes and sits on several boards.

Prior to joining Aras, Julien was co-founder and General Partner of Forepont Capital Partners, a Bio&MedTech Venture Capital Fund where he led 20+ investments, sat on 5 boards and led BioSpeedia, one of the portfolio companies, from $0 to $20M Revenues in 12 months as CEO.

Before, Julien was Partner & Managing Director of Trajectoire Capital Group in Geneva, as well as the Head of Alternative Investments for AG2R La Mondiale where he allocated over €3B across strategies and hedge funds. Twice he was awarded French Investor of the Year in the Hedge Funds category.

Julien holds a BSc in Economics & MSc in Finance from St Mary's College of California, an Engineering degree in Statistics & Econometrics from AMSA, France and an MBA from London Business School & Columbia Business School. Julien was also Validectorian of the CIIA in France.