Marie-Laure Mazaud is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of STOA, the investment arm set up by Caisse des Dépôts (CDC) and l’Agence française de Développement (AFD) in November 2017, in charge of investing equity and quasi equity in infrastructure and energy projects in emerging markets.

She has an extensive experience in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, project finance and governance.

Marie-Laure joined from CDC group where, as Senior Executive Director, she oversaw the transportation practice between 2013 and 2017. She also served as Managing Director at Alcatel-Lucent (2008-2013) covering international financing, credit and cash management worldwide, as Director of sales financing and treasury for Europe & South between 2004-2007 and as Head of Structured and Project Finance at Coface (1997-2004), intervening in multiple sectors (energy, oil & gas, telecoms, metals, transport) and supervising multi-source financing.

As board member for almost 10 years in project companies and corporations, she chairs today the audit committee of FM and Mecachrome groups and seats as independent board member at their respective supervisory board. She is also a non-executive director of Nachtigal Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) projects in Cameroon, of Metro Fibre Networx (MFN) in South Africa as well as of Etix Everywhere (EE) – a hyperscale and edged data center platform engaged in emerging markets - and is a member of their respective audit and appointments and remunerations committees.

Marie-Laure holds a Masters in Corporate Finance from Lyon Graduate School of Management (EM Lyon), a degree from Lille Graduate School of Business (EDHEC) and a BA in Business Studies from Brighton Polytechnic.