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.
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 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.
Arno recently graduated with a Master's in Business Engineering from Solvay, major in Finance. He completed an internship for Astanor, a venture capital impact fund, and followed Le Wagon's Data Analytics bootcamp. A former member of the Belgian national field hockey team, he brings to Stratego the discipline and high standards built through elite sport.
Maxime is in the final year of his BSc in Business Engineering at Solvay Brussels School. He sharpened his technical edge at PwC as an audit intern in Financial Advisory Services, working on valuations and IFRS testing. As Investment Banking Manager at the Solvay Finance Club, he bridges academia and practice, turning rigorous financial analysis into actionable deal advice for real clients.
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.
The company valuation performed by Colette Plasman and her team made a real difference to my company, providing genuine added value.
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.
Colette Plasman gave us a fairness opinion, highly professional in the context of a strategic investment.
