Stephane Etroy is joining Ares Management as a partner and head of European Private Equity.

Based in London, Etroy will lead Ares’ European Private Equity activities and seek to benefit from the firm’s strong European credit and real estate platforms. In addition, he will serve as a member of the Ares Private Equity Group’s Corporate Opportunities Investment Committee.

“Stephane is a highly experienced and accomplished professional in the global private equity markets with a particular focus on the European market,” said Bennett Rosenthal, Ares co-founder and co-chairman of the Private Equity Group. “We are very pleased to have him lead our European private equity team and we look forward to his many contributions as we continue to build our private equity presence in this strategically important region.”

Etroy brings 18 years of global private equity experience, most recently having served as executive vice president and head of Private Equity at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) in London. Etroy joined CDPQ in September 2015 as senior vice-president and co-head of Direct Investments. Prior to that, he was a partner at Charterhouse Capital Partners in London, where he worked for more than a decade.