Charles-Edouard Bouée is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Adagia Partners, a European
MidCap Private Equity firm. Adagia focuses on Global or European leaders in Healthcare, Business
Services and Tech Industrials across France, DACH and Benelux, with a hands-on approach and
a focus on long term levers and the roll-out of new technologies - and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
in particular- to create value with incumbent management. Adagia has Euro 1.1bn of Assets Under
Management.
In the AI world, Charles-Edouard has co-founded Artificial Intelligence Quartermaster (AIQ), a
global platform for AI investment, advisory and innovation and has been an active investor in deep
tech early-stage ventures as Co-Founder of Alpha Intelligence Capital (AIC), a Venture Capital
fund investing in deep algorithmic science-based AI companies globally since 2019.
From 2013 to 2019, he served as global CEO of Roland Berger, the only global leading consulting
firm of European origin, which he led from crisis through transformation to a record year in the
firm's history of over 50 years. He became a seasoned expert in large-scale strategy and
reorganization projects, as well as performance improvement and specialized in disruptive
innovation and AI.
Charles-Edouard has lived and worked in five countries – France, UK, US, Germany and China.
In addition to being a Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA alumnus (class of 1995), he also holds
a Master of Science from Ecole Centrale de Paris and a law degree from Université Paris Sud XI.
He is on the Advisory Board of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and has
been involved in various other business and community organizations around the globe, such as
the World Economic Forum’s Global Artificial Intelligence Council.
He has authored a number of groundbreaking books on modern management and China, such as
China’s Management Revolution: Spirit, Land, Energy (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011), Light Footprint
Management: Leadership in Times of Change (Bloomsbury, 2013) and, Re-entrepreneuring: How
Organizations Can Reignite Their Entrepreneurial Spirit (also Bloomsbury, 2018). His latest work on
Artificial Intelligence, The Fall of the Human Empire (Bloomsbury, 2019) was first published by
Grasset in 2017 (original title: La Chute de l’empire humain), three years after Confucius et les automates
(also Grasset, 2014). In 2020, Grasset published his latest book L’ère des nouveaux Titans : Le
capitalisme en apesanteur. His books were translated into various languages, including French, English,
Chinese and Japanese.
On January 1, 2017, he was made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. Charles-Edouard holds a Chinese green card, only a few hundred of which are
issued each year. In 2012 the City of Shanghai presented him with the Magnolia Gold Award, the
highest accolade available to foreigners in Shanghai, in recognition of his services to the city's social
and economic development and his services to Chinese-European relations.
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