Pierre-edouard Sterin
Membre at Génération Bien Commun
Brussels Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Owner
2009 - Current
Otium is a private, evergreen investment holding company. We support entrepreneurs to unlock their value creation potential, placing people, boldness and innovation at the heart of our approach. Otium pursues a diversification strategy, as both minority and majority investor, mainly in the sectors of industry, leisure, real estate, healthcare, Consumer, and Tech. We invest more than €200m per year, with ticket sizes ranging from €2m to €30m per project. We have invested more than €500m in over 100 companies. If you are raising funds or wish to become a founder with us, and if you are very ambitious, contact us. www.otiumcapital.com
Founder and Owner
2003
Smartbox is the worldwide leader in gift experiences. Founded in 2003 with only 5 000 euros. Revenues 2023 of €423m. Team of 700+ talented people. We are in 11 european countries (France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Denmark...). We have 34 000 partners (hotels, restaurants, spas...) and 17 000 points of sales. www.smartbox.com
Co-founder
2024
Périclès is a liberal-conservative platform that creates and supports citizen initiatives to help France rise again. We deploy €15m per year in several types of projects: - Think tanks - Media - Technology tools - Training programs www.periclesfrance.org
Co-Founder
2022
The Fonds du Bien Commun is an ecosystem comprising different structures: - An endowment fund to support associations, - An investment fund for for-profit projects, - An incubator to help associative and other projects emerge. We invest €80m per year (donations, impact investing and real estate investment) to support the promoters of positive-impact projects as they scale up. Our priorities : - Solidarity - Integral education - Culture and heritage - Human and spiritual growth www.fondsdubiencommun.com
Membre
2022
Owner and President of the Board
2008 - 2014
We have invested in LaFourchette and became the main shareholder of the company (80%). We bring operational expertise and hands-on support to the founders. We developed the company from 20 to 20 000 bookings a day. We recruited 200 talented people. We sold the company in 2014 to Trip Advisor.
Founder
1999 - 2001
Black Orange was the french leading software and video game retailer over the Internet. 3 M of sales in 2000 for our first year. Team of 40 talented people. I sold my shares in 2001.
Equity Analyst
1998 - 1999
Equity Sales
1998 - 1998