Bruno Deschamps is Group Partner and Head of 3i’s French business. He joined 3i in 2007 from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (‘CD&R’) where he had been Operating Partner since 2002. He was responsible for private equity investments in Europe, including companies such as Brake Bros of which he was the chairman and CEO, VWR, Culligan and Rexel.

Prior to joining Private Equity, Bruno was President and Chief Operating Officer of Ecolab Inc, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Minneapolis, USA. Before that he lived for 10 years in Germany where he was the CEO of Henkel Industrial adhesives worldwide before becoming the CEO of Henkel Ecolab headquartered in Duesseldorf. He started his career managing his family-owned speciality chemical company and has a proven record of generating value by improving the operations of the diverse businesses he has led around the world.

Bruno Deschamps holds an MBA in marketing and finance from ISG Paris and San Diego State USA and is fluent in French, English, German, and Spanish. He is President des Conseillers du Commerce Exterieur France UK, a member of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce and Knight of the Legion d’honneur France

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