Caisse des Dépôts et Consignation

Audrey Girard began her career in 1998 as a corporate lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions and financing, a profession she practiced for more than ten years with Ashurst LLP in Paris.
In 2009, she joined the Tax and Legal department of Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), where she was responsible for M&A, financing and restructuring transactions and advised management teams on governance issues.

In 2015-2016, she became Chief Executive Officer of the fintech company Pytheas Capital Advisors, where she worked on an innovative entrepreneurial project offering alternative financing solutions and bringing together major industrial groups, suppliers (including SMEs) and institutional investors. She was appointed Director of Development and Institutional Relations in CDC’s Pensions and Solidarity department (2017-2018), where her role involved helping to develop strategy and managing projects to simplify the retirement landscape at a time of reform, increased use of data and digital technology, and population ageing.

At the beginning of 2019, she became Deputy Tax and Legal Director at CDC where she managed the teams in charge of investment, divestment, financing, and restructuring transactions within the CDC group. She was involved in all projects across CDC’s various business lines (Banque des Territoires, asset management, management of strategic holdings, social policies) and supervised GDPR compliance and other regulatory projects.
She also played an active role in the managerial transformation launched by CDC’s Executive Committee, as well as in the transformation of the legal profession. In November 2023, she joined the Management of Strategic Holdings division as Director of Strategic Investments, responsible for coordinating the priorities of the CDC group and its subsidiaries, providing strategic and financial support to subsidiaries, and defining CDC’s shareholdings.

Since 2020, she has been a director of the Transdev group, a global mobility operator (road, rail and sea transport) present on five continents and in 19 countries, with over 100,000 employees.
Audrey Girard has in-depth knowledge of issues relating to the healthcare sector and the operation of hospitals thanks to her over 15 years of voluntary work as a director of the Fondation Hôpital Ambroise Paré – Hôpital Européen (the second largest private hospital in the north of Marseille).

Audrey Girard is president of the Investment Committee and a member of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee as well as the Audit and Risks Committee.

Audrey Girard est présidente Comité des Investissements et membre du Comité des Nominations et des Rémunérations et du Comité d’Audit et des Risques.