About Us
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Value-added expertise
and high confidentiality​

Stratego was born in 2000 with the ambition to offer top-tier financial and strategic advisory to enable small and mid-cap businesses to reach their full potential.​

Our team benefits from ongoing connections with family offices and top-tier local investment funds. We are entrepreneurs, and our goal is to promote excellence in financial advisory; we ensure complete transparency so that our clients feel secure at every step.

We put our 20 years of corporate experience at our customers' service to leverage their potential and create strong value for them.​

Meet our team

Colette Plasman

Partner

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Academic director at Solvay Executive Education Brussels School, a specialist in corporate finance and a board member of several companies.

Colette benefits from more than 30 years of experience in Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance.

She is a board member of the Belgium M&A Association.

Catherine Bendayan

Associate partner

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Catherine has been CEO of IKEA (Retail) for more than 10 years. In addition to that, she is a business angel in several start-ups (certified business coach ISSHO academy) and a board member in several companies. Hence, strong of an international professional experience (France, Italy, Germany, Belgium), Catherine is an executive business coach, supporting leaders and entrepreneurs in their business strategies.

Arnaud Faite

Junior Analyst

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Arnaud has a deep interest in Finance, he began his career through aninternship in Asset Management at Banque Transatlantique Belgium. Additionally, Arnaud is board member of Capitant Brussels.
Arnaud holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Management from UCLouvain. He is currently pursuing aMaster’s degree at KU Leuven with a major in Financial Analysis.

Abdelkader El Jylaly

Junior Analyst

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Abdel has experience at the intersection of finance, consulting, and risk management. He worked as a Student Credit Analyst in the Surety department at Zurich Insurance, where he evaluated the creditworthiness of companies. Abdel is also President of the Solvay Consulting Club. Abdel is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Business Engineering with a major in Finance.

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What our clients say

Stratego Finance, led by Colette Plasman, accompanied Fresheo through an acquisition process with patience and professionalism, standing out thanks to an unique experience, expertise and educational approach.

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Marvin Ndiaye

Founder at Fresheo

The company valuation performed by Colette Plasman and her team made a real difference to my company, providing genuine added value.

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Bernard Verdoodt

CFO at NOVE

Stratego supported us in our fundraising efforts by advocating for our interests and values. At our request, Colette Plasman later joined our Board and has been assisting us ever since with our financial strategy, demonstrating professionalism and kindness.

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Bernard Leboucq

Brasseries de la Senne

Colette Plasman gave us a fairness opinion, highly professional in the context of a strategic investment.

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G. Cruysmans

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