Thomas CRAND
Founding Partner, Volta Group
Founding Partner at Volta Group (Volta Développement, Volta Holdings, VRS Ghana, Volta Financiere, Liquid Corp, etc...)
Président and Founding Partner at Volta Développement.
Formerly Financial Services F&PM Consultant at Accenture.
Formerly Financial Controller at Alcatel-Lucent (Paris, Accra, Hanoi, Shanghai)
Specialties
Business Development, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Private Equity, Project Finance, Capital Venture.
VOLTA DEVELOPPEMENT is a Paris-based company specialised in the development of large ground and roof-mounted PV Facilities in mainland France.
Liquid Corp is specialized in the hospitality industry. We own and operate cocktail and music bars in Paris.
Liquid Corp also provides strategic and financial advisory to companies from the sector (bars, hotels, restaurants, breweries, etc...).
Volta Financière based in Paris in a private investment company operating in Western Africa.
VF investment strategy centers mainly around equipment leasing activities in emerging countries.
2006 - 2010I conducted finance transformation programs focusing on finance strategy definition (GDF-Suez, Sucres & Denrée), organization assessement (France Telecom, Monaco Telecom, Maroc Connect), Shared Services implementation (Shell) , Corporate Treasury performance improvement (Allianz), Entreprise Risk Management (Fortis), Capital Market (Calyon).
2004 - 2006VRS offers long-term rental of vehicles to large multinationals in Accra, Ghana.
2001 - 2005- CFO at Alcatel Shanghai Bell Ghana ($150M Ghana Telecom project)
- Treasury Manager at Alcatel Network Systems Vietnam, Hanoi
- Financial Controller at Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Shanghai
- Consolidation Analyst at Alcatel HQ, Paris