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Xavier co-founded Astorg Partners in 1998, after heading the Suez private equity teams for seven years, including the chairmanship of Astorg Cie d'Investissement which was then a wholly-owned Suez investment company. Before that, he spent six years at Sanofi, as CEO of an operational division and member of the Executive Committee. Xavier started his professional life in 1976 at the French Treasury, where he held several senior positions including the financing and monitoring of state-owned institutional companies.
Xavier is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, the Institut d'Etude Politiques de Paris, and the Ecole Normale d'Administration.
Xavier sits on the boards of Onduline, Staci, Ethypharm, SCT, Gras Savoye and Linxens. He was also a board member of Pizza Pino, RLD, Pasteur Cerba, ECM, Mécatherm, Lowendal, CIS, Picard Surgelés, Un Jour Ailleurs, Trescal, Geoservices and Webhelp.