ABOUT Damien CABADI

Interests

A Financial Executive who could give you an outstanding competitive advantage optimizing your value creation process. This unique expertise is based on a clear understanding of the following topics:

  • Customer metrics: Customer Lifetime Value (CLV or LTV), Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC), annual return and pricing of a customer with a specific CAC and churn, valuation of a viral customer, CLV with upselling or cross-selling potential.
  • Cash flow management: modeling all cash flow needs (P&L and equity) based on customer metrics, break-even point calculation and fund raising pitch.
  • Growth valuation: traditional multiple valuation, Discounted Cash Flow valuation based on customer metrics, valuation with a growth significantly higher than the WACC (unique and simple decreasing growth model with a fixed 2nd derivative) and multiple estimate based on forecasted customer metrics.

Honors & Awards

Bio & Profesionnal Experience

Alumnus of Dauphine, HEC Paris & INSEAD, Damien CABADI is Chief Financial Officer of a new regulated financial entity started from scratch in Luxembourg.

He was previously CFO of MassMutual Europe, life insurance subsidiary of the American MassMutual group.

Before, he evolved during 8 years in the BNP Paribas Luxembourg Group where he managed, coached and motivated several financial departments, with assets under management up to 5 billion euros.

He firstly began his career as a financial auditor at Ernst & Young and at Certified Public Accountancy firm in Paris.  Then, in 2004, he came to Luxembourg, attracted by its vibrant and international environment.

Volunteer experience & associations

  • Board Member & Member of the Investment Committee: Luxembourg Business Angel Network
  • Member: HEC, INSEAD & Dauphine alumni Luxembourg
  • Mentor: Fintech Europe organized by Village Capital, StartupBus
  • Donator: Solidarités International

Damien CABADI
Shaking up finance