Vivien de Gunzburg

President at Ceres Infrastructure Private Debt

Chair

Vivien de Gunzburg is the Founder, President, and Managing Partner of Ceres Infrastructure Asset Management LLC, the manager of Ceres Infrastructure Private Debt Fund which is dedicated to providing and structuring long-term and large size affordable financings for the renovation of large core infrastructure assets in the U.S.

Prior to Ceres, in 2003 Mr. de Gunzburg established the Findercod group in Europe to provide advisory services in the areas of corporate finance (including solutions to corporates such as project/asset-based long-term (re)financing), private equity, and asset management. At Findercod, having worked for many infrastructure companies on financing their projects for more than 10 years, Mr. de Gunzburg and the Honorable Mr. Heimann developed and structured Ceres.Prior to founding Findercod, Mr. de Gunzburg participated to the creation of Stephens Financial Group (“SFG”) in 2002, the NY based large-cap M&A arm of the Stephens Group. He was involved in the $13.4bn merger of Northrop Grumman & TRW and the simultaneous sale of TRW Automotive to the Blackstone Group for $4.7bn.

From 1998 to 2002, Mr. de Gunzburg held various positions within the Banking Group of Lazard in New York. In 2001, Mr. de Gunzburg was a Senior Associate dedicated to Ambassador Felix Rohatyn, originating deals such as the $72bn merger of Comcast with AT&T, and HSBC’s acquisition of Household International for $16bn. Other clients included Suez, Sodexho, LVMH, Publicis, Fiat, Fimalac, United Technologies, and Pfizer. Mr. de Gunzburg started as an Analyst in Lazard’s Life Sciences Group, working for Kenneth Jacobs (current honorary Chairman of Lazard) working on transactions including Pfizer’s hostile acquisition of pharmaceutical Warner-Lambert for $116 bn and simultaneous divestiture of Rid to Bayer for $85 million (2001), the sale of MET-Rx to Rexall Sundown for $106 million (2000), Hoechst and Rhône-Poulenc merger-of-equals into Aventis for $45bn (1999) which later was merged with Sanofi, and the sale of the remaining 80% of Pioneer Hi-Bred to DuPont for $7.7bn (1999).

Prior to joining Lazard, in 1997 Mr. de Gunzburg joined Rothschild & Cie. in Paris as an Analyst in the M&A. In 1995 and 1996, he worked at Société Générale as an analyst in the Credit department both in Madrid and in Hong Kong. In 1994 Mr. de Gunzburg worked with the CFO of Sanofi Beauté in Barcelona. In 1993, Mr. de Gunzburg worked at Republic New York Corporation (Republic National Bank – Edmond Safra) in the Mergers and Acquisitions department in New York.A Belgian and French national, Mr. de Gunzburg received a MSc. in financial engineering and a BA in Economics and Finance. Mr. de Gunzburg is fluent in French, English and Spanish and has notions of Japanese, Russian and German.

He is a Young Leader (class French President Emmanuel Macron) and member of the Board of Directors of the French-American Foundation in the U.S. and France, the founder and President of the de Gunzburg Myeloma Research Foundation (DGMRF) in the U.S., a Member of the Executive Committee and Treasurer of French Foundation for the Research on Myeloma and Gammopathy (FFRMG) in France, Vice-President of ORT Belgium, Board Member of ORT France, Treasurer of heritage Fondation Mansart and Member of the Executive Committee of Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem, Vice President and member of the General Committee of The Travellers club in France.