Charles Henriot

Charles Henriot is Advisor, Innovation & AI at Stratos. He supports Private Equity and Venture Capital funds, as well as their portfolio companies, on innovation programs, SaaS transformation, product strategy, and post-merger integration—designing governance and operating models suited to growth and consolidation phases.

Before joining Stratos, Charles served as VP, Chief of Staff at Aptean (U.S. software company, ~$500M revenue), where he led the acquisition and integration of eight European software vendors, ranging from sub-10-person startups to 300-employee organizations. His integration mandates covered commercial acceleration and team alignment, HR and IT transformation, and the development of new product and market synergies. As CEO of Lascom, he executed a five-year transformation focused on refocusing the business on Food & Beverage and Cosmetics and shifting to SaaS to increase MRR—culminating in Lascom’s acquisition by Aptean in late 2020. Earlier, he held leadership roles at Sopra HR Software, and he is the founder of Maths And Go, an AI-assisted mathematics learning solution for primary students. He is a graduate of Télécom Paris.

With this background in acquisitions, integration, and SaaS transformation, Charles now helps investors and management teams translate innovation and AI into concrete value-creation levers—aligning product roadmaps, operating models, and execution rhythms to secure and accelerate their growth trajectories.

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