Partners in Paris and London, advising corporations on their operating costs, competitive and financial positions, valuations and acquisition strategies.

Dominique then worked on a range of leverage buy-outs, corporate finance and M&A transactions with UBS Warburg and Daiwa Securities in London, focusing for the latter on cross-border equity transactions and strategic partnerships between European SMEs and Japanese industrial groups.

He worked for 5 years in various management capacities for companies related to Lazard Frères:

In 1994, as a principal at Elysée Investissements, a US$300 million holding company controlled by Lazard's senior partner E. Stern, with investments as far as Vietnam and Myanmar;

In 1995-96, as one of two executives who started Lazard Asia in Singapore, he originated investments in excess of US$45 million for a direct investment company co-funded with Singapore's Temasek, and executed M&A transactions in excess of US$17 million;

In 1997-98, as country representative and advisor to Elysée General Oriental Investments, a company controlled by E. Stern and the late financier Sir J. Goldsmith, he engineered the turnaround and sale of their US$20 million investment portfolio in Vietnam.

In 1999, prior to founding ACA, Dominique was involved in providing hands-on guidance and seed funding to Singapore start-up companies.

Dominique holds a Masters of Sciences in Mathematics & Physics from Ecole Polytechnique, France's leading scientific graduate school, and a Masters of Sciences in Economics.

He is a member of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and participates in the French-Singapore Business Council activities.