Yoël Zaoui
Yoël Zaoui | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 January 1961 Casablanca, Marocco |
| Alma mater | HEC Paris Paris Dauphine University |
| Occupation | French-Moroccan investment banker |
| Known for | Co-founder of Zaoui & Co. |
Yoël Zaoui (born in 1961 in Casablanca) is a Franco-Moroccan investment banker, globally co-head of mergers and acquisitions for Goldman Sachs Europe since 2011.[1] He was elected "best banker of the year" in 2008 by the French community of London.[2][3]
In 2013, he and his brother Michael founded Zaoui & Co.
Biography
[edit]Born in Morocco to a senior civil servant father,[4] Yoël Zaoui spent his youth in Italy and studied at HEC Paris and at Stanford University.[5]
He is the brother of Michaël Zaoui (born in 1957),[6] businessman, founder of the France Israel Foundation, appointed in 2019 by Mohammed VI as a member of the Special Commission on the Development Model, with whom he participated in all the major mergers and acquisitions operations of the last ten years in Europe: Mittal Arcelor, Elf Total, Castorama Kingfisher, Crédit agricole Banque Indosuez, HSBC CCF, etc.[7]
In 2014, Yoël Zaoui and his brother Michael received the third class Ouissam decoration awarded by the King of Morocco.[8] He is part of the same promotion as the French intellectual Edgar Morin and Irina Bokova at the time director general of UNESCO.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Goldman Sachs-Le Français Yoël Zaoui prend sa retraite".
- ^ "Yoël Zaoui, le Frenchy préféré de La City". eFinancialCareers. November 27, 2008.
- ^ "Goldman Sachs: un Français à la retraite". Le Figaro. April 10, 2012.
- ^ Fair, Vanity (February 11, 2014). "BUSINESS". Vanity Fair.
- ^ "Yoël Zaoui, ancien de Goldman Sachs, crée une société de conseil avec son frère". January 22, 2013 – via Le Monde.
- ^ "Zoom sur : Michael et Yoel Zaoui, les deux ex-frères ennemis les plus célèbres du M&A". August 10, 2015.
- ^ "« Le conseil en M & A, c'est la négation de la monotonie »".
- ^ "Les réseaux de Yoël Zaoui". L'Express. September 1, 2006.
- ^ "Yoël Zaoui quitte Goldman Sachs". April 11, 2012 – via Le Monde.