Jean-Guillaume Peladan

In 2025, my role of Senior Advisor to the CEO has been enlarged to Chief Mission Officer of Sycomore AM (BCorp certified, mission-driven company since 2020). Strenghtening the governance of our mission I assist the Executive Committee and the Sycomorians in integrating further our company purpose as a guide in decision making, a compass for prioritisation, and an inspiring source of differentiation.

Représentant de Sycomore Factory, actionnaire de la NEC Initiative, au Conseil de Surveillance
Membre du Comité de Mission de la NEC Initiative, non-indépendant.

Elected representative of Sycomore AM in the Asset Managers' college of the Board

Représentant de Sycomore AM dans le collège des sociétés de gestion

I joined Sycomore Asset Management in 2015 to build and implement the company's green investment strategy. This led to our Natural Capital Strategy, to multiple partnerships and awards, to a full range of 6 green funds and mandates, representing €1bn of assets under manangement, and to a science-based methodological approach for corporate and financial players: the NEC for Net Environmental Contribution.

Launched in 2015, the public equity fund, Sycomore Europe Eco Solutions, has been the first to get the Greenfin certification in 2016. The NEC methodology that has been initially developed for Sycomore Europe Eco Solutions provides an impact-based measure of the alignment of business models to the environmental transition. In 2017, the metric has been progressively improved, tested and extented to all types of activities and asset classes, leading to an advanced methodology wholly integrating biodiversity, climate and resources. In 2018, it has been tested and deployed over our portfolios and benchmarks. In 2019, the NEC metric became fully transparent and open-source via the NEC initiative, a collaborative platform gathering financial actors and environmental experts.

In 2020, Sycomore AM became a BCorp certified, mission-driven company and the use of the NEC, as an investment criteria, was decisive to win the competitive tender organized by 12 European Institutional Investors for the management of a listed equity fund aligned with the Paris Agreement on Climate. In 2021, the NEC Initiative became a mission-driven company with equity brought by 4 shareholders to develop and disseminate the NEC metric as a science-based, transparent, international standard. In 2022 and 2023, the NEC 1.0 has been updated and improved to enable the deployement of the NEC 1.1 from 2024 on.

In 2024, my role evolved to strategy and marketing, as Senior Advisor to the CEO.

J'ai rejoint Sycomore Asset Management en 2015 pour y développer une stratégie d'investissement dans la transition écologique. Sont notamment nés de cette démarche notre stratégie Capital Naturel, 6 produits financiers verts et une métrique, la NEC, Net Environmental Contribution. Lancé en 2015, notre fonds éligible au PEA, Sycomore Eco Solutions, est devenu en 2016 le premier fonds vert certifié Greenfin. Initialement créée pour ce fonds, la méthodologie de sélection des entreprises en fonction de leur alignement avec la transition écologique a ensuite été améliorée et élargie à tous les types d'activités et toutes les classes d'actifs pour devenir la NEC, Net Environmental Contribution. En 2018, la NEC a été déployée sur l'ensemble de nos actifs et sur leurs indices de référence. En 2019, la NEC est devenue une métrique open-source et transparente, portée par la NEC Initiative, un collectif d'acteurs de la finance et d'experts de l'environnement. En 2020, la NEC nous a permis de remporter la gestion du fonds dédié Objectif Climat suite à un appel d'offre regroupant 12 investisseurs institutionnels européens. En 2022, la NEC est devenue une entreprise à mission soutenue par 4 actionnaires. En 2024, la gamme des fonds verts de Sycomore AM représente plus d'1 milliard d'€ d'actifs sous gestion.

Gérer les fonds publics du Programme des Investissements d'Avenir confiés à l'ADEME : 2,8 milliards d'€ augmentés à 3,2 milliards en 2014 sur les thématiques d'innovation de la transition énergétique et écologique en France. Financement en aides d'Etat (principalement en avances remboursables) et en prises de participation au capital.

I joined the French Environment and Energy Management Agency to build and manage the department dedicated to the new mission that the Agency had inherited from the French Government, it means operator of the "Programme des Investissements d'Avenir" (Investments for the Future Program) for green innovation. This program has been provisioned with €2.8 billion of public credits in 2010 and was extended to reach €3.3 billion in 2014. The covered fields are targeting ecology and energy : renewable, low-carbon energies, energy management and strorage, smart grids, hydrogen, bio-based chemistry, industry, agriculture, construction and building renovation, recycling, waste management, pollution control, water, low-carbon mobility systems, road transportation, shipping and railway transportation. More than 180 projects and more than 500 companies have already been financed via State aids (82% of the total amount) and equity investments (18% of the total amount, 13 deals).

I started this think tank from scratch with Jean-Marc Jancovici, President. I created the structure as a NGO and I secured the first financing partners. The think tank is now well established and is still growing.

2008-2009: General Manager of the Plastic Recycling Division, Sita France. Set-up of the division comprising 9 companies, 330 people and €40 million annual revenues. Recovery plan, business development and acquisition.

2004-2007: Chief Operating Officer of Esterra, Suez/Veolia 50/50 joint venture, €100 million turnover, 17 sites, 1,200 staff and 5 subsidiaries. Successful recovery plan (increased EBITDA by €2.5 million), renewal of main contracts and transformation of the whole company (repositioning as an innovative recycler, acquisition of 3 new sites, relocation of 600 staff, human resources and trade unions engineering).

2002-2003: Deputy Managing Director of Sita Nord, in charge of services operation and technical support. €60 million revenues, 600 staff, 10 sites: reeengineering of costing, pricing and logistics, people and social management.

Strategy and organisation missions in France, UK and USA