Senior Managing Director, Evercore Partners

Francois Maisonrouge, Chairman

At Evercore, Mr. Maisonrouge was involved in advising Wyeth on its sale to Pfizer, Sanofi-aventis on its purchase of Merck’s 50% stake in Merial including an option to potentially merge Merial with Intervet / Schering-Plough Animal Health in the future, TPG on its acquisition of IMS Health, De Ruiter on its sale to Monsanto, Bracco on its acquisition of E-Z-Em, and the sale of Optonol to Alcon.Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Maisonrouge was a Managing Director and Chairman of Life Sciences at Credit Suisse where he worked extensively in the fields of pharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical technology. At Credit Suisse, Mr. Maisonrouge was responsible for leading the firm’s relationships with large healthcare clients such as Johnson & Johnson, Schering-Plough, Wyeth, GlaxoSmithKline, Roche and Teva, most notably in executing mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions.Mr. Maisonrouge has an M.S. in Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Harvard Business School Health Care Initiative, and was awarded France’s “Ordre National du Merite” in 2003. In 2014, Mr. Maisonrouge was awarded the rank of Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur. He resides in New York City.