
Pablo Queriat
Senior Investment Manager
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- Full Name
- Pablo Queriat, PhD
- Title
- Senior Investment Manager (Liquid Investment Team)
- Firm
- Korys
- Firm Type
- Family investment company / family office (the Colruyt family's investment vehicle)
- Investment Stage
- Primarily public/listed equities; Korys as a whole also invests across private equity, direct investments in SMEs, and venture/PE funds. (Note: the "Angel / Seed" label in the stub does not match Korys' or Pablo's actual mandate — see Background.)
- Sector Focus
- Energy Transition (Pablo's specialty); Korys' broader themes are Energy Transition, Conscious Consumer / Healthy Living, and Life Sciences
- Geographic Focus
- Benelux, broader Europe, and India
- Location
- Brussels, Belgium
Background
Pablo Queriat is a Senior Investment Manager on Korys' Liquid Investment Team, where he focuses on investments in publicly listed companies within the Energy Transition ecosystem. Korys is the entrepreneurial investment company of the Colruyt family — the Belgian family behind the Colruyt Group retail empire, built over four generations — established to manage the family's assets and promote values-driven, sustainable entrepreneurship. The firm manages a portfolio valued at over €4 billion and organizes its strategy around a "3P" (People, Planet, Profit) philosophy.
He is trained as a Chemical Engineer and holds a PhD in Energy and Environmental Policy from Imperial College London. Before finance, he spent roughly five years as a consultant at IFP Energies Nouvelles in Paris, a public research and training institute focused on energy, transport, and the environment.
Pablo joined Korys in early 2016. Prior to that, he spent about ten years as a Portfolio Manager and buy-side analyst in the Institutional Asset Management department of Degroof Petercam, one of Belgium's leading private banks and asset managers, where his focus included clean tech and renewable-energy equity research. He has said he was drawn to Korys because of "its values, its family structure, its dynamic and entrepreneurial spirit and its long track record on sustainable value creation."
On a personal note, Korys' team page describes him as having grown up in a multicultural environment with a long-standing passion for energy and sustainability challenges; he enjoys travel and outdoor activities such as jogging and mountain hiking, and is married with three children.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests in publicly listed companies in the Energy Transition ecosystem — renewable energy, clean tech, and related sustainable value chains — as part of Korys' Liquid Investment Team.
- Operates within Korys' "3P" (People, Planet, Profit) framework: seeking positive impact on people and planet while generating attractive financial returns.
- Aligns with Korys' three core investment themes: Energy Transition, Conscious Consumer / Healthy Living, and Life Sciences.
- Brings a deep technical + policy lens (Chemical Engineering, PhD in Energy & Environmental Policy, IFP Energies Nouvelles) plus a decade of buy-side equity analysis — meaning fundamentals, energy-market dynamics, and sustainability substance matter, not just narrative.
- Note for founders: Pablo's personal mandate is weighted toward listed / public-market instruments, not early-stage angel or seed check-writing. Korys does back private companies and venture/PE funds, but through other teams and vehicles.
Notable Investments
- Virya Energy — Development, financing, and operation of energy-transition projects; Korys acquired a majority stake (~70%) from Colruyt Group, with Colruyt Group retaining ~30%.
- Spanish onshore wind portfolio — Acquired from Bridgepoint in June 2016; comprised of operational wind assets / wind farms.
- Voltalia — Listed French renewable-energy developer and operator (part of Korys' listed-equity exposure).
- Sensorfact — Energy-monitoring / industrial efficiency scale-up appearing in Korys' portfolio.
- Colruyt Group — The family's founding, publicly listed retail business, anchoring the broader portfolio.
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