Yann Decroos
Private Equity at Calista Direct Investors S.A.
Luxembourg
Overview
Work Experience
Corporate Advisor
2025 - Current
Private Equity
2024 - 2025
Direct & fund investments
Venture Capital
2019 - 2023
Part of the Investment team. Venture Capital fund, covering Europe and Israel. Early backer of 6 unicorns: Skype, Wix, WalkMe, K Health, Flo Health and TBOL.
Mentor
2019 - 2023
Mentor to participants: Provided training, 1-1 mentoring and led workshops (50+ attendees) on dealflow analysis.
Customer Success Manager
2017 - 2018
Social intelligence platform (SaaS) providing AI-powered listening and analytics across all media types. High growth tech startup that grew from 100 to 250+ employees while I was there. • Managed own 25 clients: Increased revenue by up- and cross selling accounts, built social listening and benchmarking dashboards, onboarded new clients, personal client churn rate of 0% • Implementation of sentiment analysis: Built emotion, product and issue filters in back-end using Python to apply to results • Consulted clients from varying industries and transformed their online strategy by improving their social listening capabilities (often from scratch)
Internships
2013 - 2016
Kneip - Financial Communication CBP Quilvest - Trading Deloitte - Consulting Atoz Services - Corporate Finance Royal Bank of Scotland - Funds Banking