Alban is head of Idinvest Growth Fund.. Before joining Idinvest in November 2016, Alban spent two years at Partech Ventures, where he sourced and executed investments in Europe and the US (Alban was notably board member at Brandwatch and M-Files). Before that, Alban worked at Dassault Systèmes where, from 2008 to 2014 he successively led the CATIA. Strategy team and then the 3DS Group Corporate Strategy team. Here he managed the 3DS technical partners' portfolio, the 3DS group and the brand's corporate planning efforts, closing over 10 M&A deals.. Alban started his career with various Engineering & Research consulting positions at Salomon, EADS and Geonumeric. Alban also co-created some mobile apps and regularly lectures on entrepreneurship at the HEC business school.. Alban holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) and is an alumnus of HEC Entrepreneurs (France).