Claude has had a very diversified sector experience. He started with Peat Marwick (KPMG) and then worked as Managing Director of the Spanish subsidiary of DALKIA, Chief Executive of France Boisson (distribution) GROUPE HEINEKEN and Chief Executive of Groupe Pierre 1er (property development). In 1995, he founded Asset Value Management, a company specialising in strategic asset management and investment capital, of which he is the Chairperson.