Frédéric L. Agneessens

Senior Advisor

Frédéric L. Agneessens is a private investor, advisor and investment banker, having started his career in 1989 in the high yield securities department at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the Los Angeles and New York offices.  He founded Axxess Partners, a Belgian corporate finance and M&A boutique in 1993 and has advised on over two billion Euros in cross-border transactions representing corporate, financial, entrepreneurial and family buyers and sellers in various industries.

In addition to FCP, he is advising several Private Equity houses in their investment and buy & build strategies.  For example, he sourced, initiated, assisted in the structuring & financing, development, monitoring and later exit of the food ingredients company Sfinc nv (now called ‘Solina’), which tripled in size over three years, generating double digit returns.

He was also an investor and active Board Member in several mid-size business such as Mercura Industries nv, a niche aluminium manufacturing business; Saluc sa, the world leader in billard balls, Revell GmbH, the German leader in hobby and leisure products; He was also a co-founder of AB 3, a private commercial broadcasting company for the French speaking community of Belgium, now controlled by French Group TF1.

Mr Agneessens earned his MBA in International Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management, and obtained a Post-Graduate Degree in Finance from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He graduated with a BA in Business Administration from the European University in Antwerp.

He was recently appointed Chairman of the Board of TrustTeam nv, a Belgian IT company acquired by Ardian supporting the founder and management in its further buy and build expansion. Mr Agneessens is the Honorary Consul of Canada for Flanders, Kingdom of Belgium, and is Chairman of CanCham Belux, the Chamber of Commerce Canada-Belgium-Luxemburg.