Partner. Nicolas Vryghem served as merger and acquisition manager and later on as investment manager in private equity at BNP-Paribas from 1996 to 2000. He was responsible for investments in ICT and in the biotechnology sector and served on the Board of Directors of several companies, actively coaching the management in terms of business development and strategic issues: consolidating the business through acquisitions at European level, promoting internal growth opportunities, raising € 35 million capital on the public stock exchange, preparing for IPO, leading a transnational merger of € 120 million. At Arthur Andersen he served 4 years as business consultant responsible for organizational re-engineering and business planning. Today, Nicolas Vryghem is founding partner of Value for Growth, a biotech and ICT venture coaching services company. Nicolas Vryghem is a graduate in commercial engineering from the Solvay Business School, Belgium and holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.