Melvin Manchau

Current

Associate at Bentley Associates

Past

Consultant at Investance
Analyst - Assistant Investment Manager at CDC Entreprises
compliance officer assistant - Analyst - at Lazard

Summer Analyst at Reuters
project manager/developper at france telecom
Intranet Project Manager at France Telecom

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Education

Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris
Université René Descartes (Paris V)

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

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Melvin Manchau’s Summary

Financial analyst with a background in private equity and financial services.

Melvin Manchau’s Specialties:

I am specialized in conducting due diligence, analytical analysis and market research on investment opportunities modeling returns, multiples, comparables,
using Capital IQ Bloomberg Reuters
Sourcing Investments and Investors , investment notes, keeping contact with investment teams and entrepreneurs
College background in Law: Financial Market regulation, compliance, internal auditing and IT : internet, intranet building, project management,software deployment, networks and languages

Melvin Manchau’s Experience

Associate

Bentley Associates

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Investment Banking industry)

October 2008 — Present (2 months)

specialists in mergers/acquisitions/divestitures, private placements, public offering advisory, restructurings/work-outs, and executive personal financial planning
Consultant

Investance

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Capital Markets industry)

October 2007 — July 2008 (10 months)

Organization and Management consultant -
Analyst - Assistant Investment Manager

CDC Entreprises

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

December 2006 — August 2007 (9 months)

Assistance in Due diligence for Investment in Mezzanine funds ABS and CDO Securitization funds Venture funds

Writing technical notes on Venture Loans, Technology Buy Outs and Mezzanine
investment notes on potential investments and partners
investment meeting reporting

Working on a study of IT and biotech firms that went on the NASDAQ and the NYSE in 2006. basis to prepare IT and biotech IPOs on the French market.

Produce excel models
Preparing meeting and questions on valuation models.

Working with an Investment Director on preparation of future reporting for France Investissement (A fund of funds state program): Definition of required data, process, planning, helping building the whole reporting

Working on internal process for business and administration: building flow charts Assistance in administration tasks Capital calls

Audit of the investment database - reconciliation of database figures with the funds reporting recieved in December
compliance officer assistant - Analyst -

Lazard

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LAZ; Investment Banking industry)

October 2005 — April 2006 (7 months)

Controls of portfolio management - respect of rules and regulations -
Control of Best Execution - Late Trading - Market Timing
Quantitative and qualitative study of the management incidents database.
Quantitative study of portfolio performances, traders ethics
Summer Analyst

Reuters

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR.L; Financial Services industry)

July 2005 — October 2005 (4 months)

Intern Assistant Product Manager on Kondor+ Risk Management software
I have managed a team of programmers to build a website that reports the performances of the technical support teams
The project was a success.
project manager/developper

france telecom

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FTE; Telecommunications industry)

April 2004 — July 2004 (4 months)

As an Intern I had to help develop an internal application. The software was in PHP and was aimed at measuring the quality of the suppliers.
Intranet Project Manager

France Telecom

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FTE; Telecommunications industry)

July 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Managing the implementation of a new software : Instranet
Replacing the old intranet with a content management solution
Researching and Presenting solutions:"colaborative workflow" like Mayetic Village
Auditing intranet websites -

Melvin Manchau’s Education

Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris

Master, MSc Finance and strategy, 2004 — 2007

Collective project : i have built a website for the sciences-po course of corporate finance

Activities and Societies:

Basket ball team
Université René Descartes (Paris V)

Bsc Computer sciences, Information system, networks, PHP and Java programming, 2003 — 2004

The Universite Paris 5 rene Descartes is known for its medical department, it was known as ' l'Ecole de Medecine' and is now famous for mathematics and computer sciences.
You can visit the website University here : http://www.univ-paris5.fr/
The department of mathematics and computer sciences here : http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/

Activities and Societies:

I made my internship during my Bachelor at France Telecom developing an internal application that was giving grades to external suppliers: During these 3 months i have managed a team of programmer, worked on the planning and kept my deadlines

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Melvin Manchau’s Interests:

M&A, fund raising, private placement, transactions advisory, private equity, venture capital, Telecoms Media and Communication, Technologies of Information and Communication, Financial analysis, Innovation management and business process re engineering, basket ball, tennis, swimming, running, professional networking,