Roger-Marc Noirot, Managing Director
Roger-Marc has a 20+ year career in management, management consulting and corporate development roles across the buy- and sell-side industries. Before founding Gradient7 and co-founding its sister company Ilum Capital Advisors he was a Managing Director and Member of the Operating Committee of DWS and COO for the Passive Business Unit of DWS. He previously held a number of roles at Barclays Capital including Global Head of Client Strategy for the Markets division and was a founding member of the SWF coverage team of the Barclays Group. Prior to Barclays he was a Principal at Booz Allen & Hamilton in the Financial Services Practice.
Roger-Marc has an MBA from the Wharton School, an MsC in Commercial Engineering from the University of Brussels and a post-graduate degree in International Comparative Management from ICHEC. Besides the UK, where he resides, he has lived in Japan, the USA, Australia and Belgium. He is a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation
Sophie Gioanni, Senior Advisor
Sophie Gioanni is seasoned executive in the Alternatives industry and worked at various hedge funds serving as general counsel and head of business development. She is the co-founder of Ilum Capital Advisors and the co-founder of VertialSoft, a social enterprise helping charities and foundations manage themselves more efficiently. Prior to that, Sophie worked in various positions in investment banking and in law.
Sophie graduated with a Master in Laws from Duke University and also holds two post-graduate degrees in law from the University Pantheon Sorbonne and in business from the University Paris Dauphine. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 1996 and the Paris Bar in 1995.
Extended resources
Where needed, Gradient7 will deploy and tailor teams whose expertise base matches the specificities and needs of each client assignment. We do that by accessing resources in our network, including from a number of high quality firms with which we have agreements. These resources typically are former management consultants or experts in their field operating on an independent basis