Searchlight hires Apollo’s Villemin as senior adviser

Searchlight Capital Partners has named Christophe Villemin as a senior adviser.

Villemin’s work background includes serving as president of aerospace and transportation at Constellium N.V, a position he held from 2011 to 2013. He was a director of Latécoère S.A. from 2015 to June 2019. And, since 2015, Villemin has been an operating partner at Apollo Management LP.

Early in his career, Villemin joined Alcan and held various management positions in packaging and aluminum conversion in Europe and the U.S. In 2002, he was appointed as general manager of Alcan Rolled Products Valais in Switzerland.

With offices in New York, London and Toronto, Searchlight currently has over $7 billion in assets under management.