Pierre-edouard Stérin

Founder and Owner

2009

Otium is a private, evergreen investment holding company. We support entrepreneurs to unlock their value creation potential, placing people, boldness and innovation at the heart of our approach. Otium pursues a diversification strategy, as both minority and majority investor, mainly in the sectors of industry, leisure, real estate, healthcare, Consumer, and Tech. We invest more than €200m per year, with ticket sizes ranging from €2m to €30m per project. We have invested more than €500m in over 100 companies. If you are raising funds or wish to become a founder with us, and if you are very ambitious, contact us. www.otiumcapital.com

Founder and Owner

2003

Smartbox is the worldwide leader in gift experiences. Founded in 2003 with only 5 000 euros. Revenues 2023 of €423m. Team of 700+ talented people. We are in 11 european countries (France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Denmark...). We have 34 000 partners (hotels, restaurants, spas...) and 17 000 points of sales. www.smartbox.com

Co-founder

2024

Périclès is a liberal-conservative platform that creates and supports citizen initiatives to help France rise again. We deploy €15m per year in several types of projects: - Think tanks - Media - Technology tools - Training programs www.periclesfrance.org

Co-Founder

2022

The Fonds du Bien Commun is an ecosystem comprising different structures: - An endowment fund to support associations, - An investment fund for for-profit projects, - An incubator to help associative and other projects emerge. We invest €80m per year (donations, impact investing and real estate investment) to support the promoters of positive-impact projects as they scale up. Our priorities : - Solidarity - Integral education - Culture and heritage - Human and spiritual growth www.fondsdubiencommun.com

Membre

2022

Owner and President of the Board

2008 - 2014

We have invested in LaFourchette and became the main shareholder of the company (80%). We bring operational expertise and hands-on support to the founders. We developed the company from 20 to 20 000 bookings a day. We recruited 200 talented people. We sold the company in 2014 to Trip Advisor.

Founder

1999 - 2001

Black Orange was the french leading software and video game retailer over the Internet. 3 M of sales in 2000 for our first year. Team of 40 talented people. I sold my shares in 2001.

Equity Analyst

1998 - 1999

Equity Sales

1998 - 1998