Christophe de Dardel is Managing Partner at Sagard Private Equity Solutions.
Christophe joined Unigestion (rebranded Sagard Private Equity Solutions in April 2026) in Geneva in 2001 as an analyst covering venture capital. In 2004, he was appointed Head of Investments, responsible for the overall selection of private equity fund investments, secondary investments and direct co-investments. In 2009, he became Head of Portfolio Management, responsible for strengthening Unigestion’s partnerships with mandate clients. He served as Head of Private Equity from 2016 to 2022 and was appointed Group CEO in January 2023.
Prior to joining Unigestion, Christophe spent more than ten years at Société Générale de Surveillance, the global inspection and testing group, on various continents. He then established and ran the Swisscom Venture Fund, a corporate fund aimed at financing the entrepreneurial initiatives of Swisscom collaborators.
Christophe holds a master’s degree in Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in, Zürich, Switzerland and has completed several executive education programs at the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland.
