Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee and Operations Committee, he is also Executive Vice-President, Co-Head of Secondaries & Primaries and Co-Head of Ardian US alongside Mark Benedetti.

Vladimir Colas joined Ardian in 2003, starting his career in Paris in direct investment activities, then moving to secondary and primary activities. In 2006, he relocated to New York to accelerate the development of Ardian’s activities in the Americas, where the company now has 150 employees across 4 offices (New York; San Francisco, Santiago de Chile and Montreal).

Vladimir was instrumental in scaling Ardian's secondary business first in the Americas and then globally.

Vladimir Colas also co-founded the Ardian US Foundation, is a board member of the Ardian Foundation, and serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Lycée Français of New York.