Thierry Chignon is Managing Partner at Mérieux Equity Partners, a registered AMF General Partners. With  more than a billion € under management,  Mérieux Equity Partners actively invests in Health and Nutrition for both humans and animals, combining Venture and Growth/Buy Out investments, for both products and services.

Thierry has more than 30 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Trials with particular focus on the medical device sector, including a first operational experience as Head Pharmacist within Institut Mérieux (1988-1997, now Sanofi Pasteur).

Prior to Mérieux Equity Partners, he was partner of Matignon Investissement et Gestion (2006-2014) to raise and deploy the first largest European fund dedicated to medical technologies (Matignon Technologies II, 100M$). After several positive exits (trade sale and IPOs), Thierry joined as Senior Partner Mérieux Développement in early 2014.…