Valerie is a graduate of ESSEC, a leading business school in France. Prior to starting her own company, Alpana Advisory Services Pte Ltd in Singapore in 2000, she has been working for about 15 years with various investment banks, in private equity, mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and project finance departments, on transactions taking place in Western Europe, the US and South and Southeast Asia. She has been living and working in various places in Asia since 1995.

Valerie is a French citizen and works in English and in French.