Hervé Hautin

Alpha Private Equity Funds Management Co Sarl (Alpha) is the French office of the independent European private equity firm which was established in 1985. Headquartered in Paris, the firm's additional local advisory offices are in Frankfurt, Milan and Monaco. Alpha acquires family-owned companies or spin-off divisions of large corporations through LBO transactions and manages several investment funds for world-class institutions, including pension funds, funds of funds, foundations and insurance companies.

Teem Photonics SA manufactures optical network components. The firm specializes in Q-switched micro lasers as well as photonics integrated circuits based on ion exchange technology. Its products are used in a variety of industrial and biophotonics applications includes fluorescence, spectroscopy, gem marking, microdissection, communications, ranging, and as seeds for fiber lasers and supercontinuum generation. The company was founded by Antoine Kévorkian and Denis Barbier in 1998 and is headquartered in Meylan, France.