Alexandra Dhavernas von Elverfeldt

Alexandra Dhavernas von Elverfeldt is a Senior Advisor at L Catterton focused on Europe.
She is the Founder and Managing Director of Dhavernas Advisory, a strategic financial advisory and investment firm.
For the last 30 years, she has been fortunate to be a trusted advisor to an ecosystem of Family Equity investors, family-owned and founder-led companies in Europe.
Previously, Ms. Dhavernas von Elverfeldt served as Managing Director at Credit Suisse covering strategic European clients and heading the mid cap M&A activities in Northern Europe.
Prior to Credit Suisse, she ran her own M&A boutique, Trocadero Corporate Finance, with a focus on primary deals in the automotive, education, luxury goods, food and beverage sectors in French and German speaking countries on behalf of prominent European Family Equity Investors.
Earlier, Ms. Dhavernas von Elverfeldt spent more than twelve years building the investment portfolio of Quilvest Group, and five years as CEO of Quilvest Capital in Germany.
Ms. Dhavernas von Elverfeldt is a graduate of Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris.
She is a member of the Innovation Council (Life Science, Med Tech, Earth Observation, Infrastructure) of the University of Zurich, member of Institut Montaigne and Ashoka Germany Support Fellow.