Our management and supervisory boards

Lucas is an experienced finance leader with a strong track record in dynamic commercial and corporate environments. He has a broad background in the area of controlling, financial planning, accounting & reporting, performance management, restructuring and M&A.

His prior experience included roles at CH Robinson Europe, FrieslandCampina and Sara Lee (now JDE Peet’s).

Jean-Jacques Lafont is the chairperson of the Supervisory Board and has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 31 October 2019. Mr. Lafont is an experienced CEO and public company board member with a background in buy-and-build and international leadership of automotive, and building materials distribution companies.

He is currently the executive chairperson of Alliance Automotive Holding. From 1990 until 2019, Mr. Lafont was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Automotive Group, a leading distributor of passenger and commercial vehicle parts to the independent automotive aftermarket in Europe with sales of over EUR 2.5 billion, 12,000 employees and over 2,150 points of sale in five countries.

Throughout his career, he has led Alliance Automotive Group from being a small distributor in the West of France via an extensive buy-and-build strategy to becoming a one of Europe’s leading auto parts distributors. He has also served as director of subsidiaries of the Alliance Automotive Group and still serves as a director of Alliance Automotive Holding Limited, Alliance Automotive Investment Limited, Alliance Automotive Procurement Limited and GroupAuto International SAS.

Lionel Yves Assant has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 31 October 2019. Mr. Assant is the European Head of Private Equity for The Blackstone Group and is based in London, United Kingdom.

He is also a member of the Investment Committee for the Tactical Opportunities and Blackstone Growth Equity (BXG) funds. Mr. Assant serves as a director of Cerdia Produktions GmbH, Clarion Events Ltd., Schenck Process GmbH, CIRSA group, the National Exhibition Centre Group, the Company and Bourne Leisure Holdings Ltd. He served on the boards of Gerresheimer AG, the Klöckner Pentaplast group, MIVISA, the United Biscuits group, Alliance Automotive Group, the Tangerine Group, Intertrust N.V. and Armacell International S.A. Since joining The Blackstone Group in 2003, Mr. Assant has been involved in various European investments and investment opportunities.

Before joining The Blackstone Group, Mr. Assant was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, where he worked for seven years in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Asset Management and Private Equity divisions. He is also involved with Impetus, a charitable foundation which provides resources to improve the lives of children and young people living in poverty. Mr. Assant graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique with a master’s degree in Economics.

Marianne Culver has been a member of the Supervisory Board since November 2021.

Ms. Culver also is a non-executive director of Travis Perkins plc., a listed FTSE 250 United Kingdom based distributor of building materials. She served as a non-executive board member of Rexel SA, the British Quality Foundation and the Electronic Distribution Show Corporation. In the past, she has held senior management positions in various organizations worldwide, amongst others in Europe, Australia, China, India, Russia, Singapore, South Africa and the US, with RS Components, a subsidiary of Electrocomponents plc., TNT UK/Ireland Ltd., Premier Farnell plc. and Macro Marketing Ltd.

Ms. Culver has extensive expertise in P&L and transformational leadership in the global electronics distribution and transport & logistics sectors. She holds a master of arts from St. Andrews University and a post graduate teaching diploma from Moray House, Edinburgh (with distinction).

Jad El Ajaltouni has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 13 March 2024.

He currently also serves on the board of directors of Desotec and on the advisory board of Huws Gray, a builders merchants chain based in the United Kingdom. Mr. El Ajaltouni is a Principal in the Private Equity Group of Blackstone and is based in London, United Kingdom. Since joining Blackstone in 2015, he has focused on investments in the Energy Transition and Building Materials sectors and has been involved with Blackstone’s investments in Desotec, Huws Gray, Building Materials Europe, and Siccar Point Energy.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. El Ajaltouni worked in the M&A and Restructuring groups at Lazard in New York. Mr. El Ajaltouni graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts in Economics and secondary field in Mathematics.

K.C. Dolan has been a member of the Supervisory Board since December, 2025.

K.C. Dolan is a Managing Director on the Blackstone Operating Team. He is the lead Operating Executive in Europe for Tactical Opportunities.

Before joining Blackstone in 2023, Mr. Dolan worked at Lycamobile, the world’s largest Mobile Virtual Network Operator, where he was the Chief Development Officer. Prior to Lycamobile, he spent 15 years at Liberty Global, a leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications services. At Liberty, he held various senior roles in Investor Relations, Financial Planning & Analysis, Strategy & Development, Business Integration as well as serving as the Deputy CFO of Liberty Latin America and the CFO of UPC Central & Eastern Europe.

Prior to his operational experience, he worked in the investment banking divisions of JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Dolan received a BS in Finance from Villanova University. He currently serves as a director of Recognition Music Group, a portfolio company in the Tactical Opportunities Fund.