Why Most AI Use Cases in PE Don't Move the P&L
Everyone in private equity is running AI pilots. Far fewer are seeing it show up on the P&L.
Valérie Legat
Managing Director, Digital
Valérie Legat
Managing Director, Digital
Valérie joined Astorg in 2024 and is a member of the Operations team in charge of Digital. Prior to this, Valérie was Chief Digital Factory officer at Carrefour and Global CX and Analytics director for the group. Before that, she was an Expert Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, and co-leader of McKinsey Digital Labs.
Valérie started her career by founding Business Lab, a digital agency that became McKinsey & Company's exclusive partner in France. Valérie holds a Master’s in Management from Skema.
She is a French national and is based in Paris.
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Valerie Legat of Astorg brings a portfolio operator's perspective on why the gap between use case and real impact remains stubbornly wide — and what it actually takes to move from isolated experiments to repeatable, productised solutions across a portfolio.
In conversation with Dean Hill of ECI, the discussion covers the two distinct AI implementation tracks for portfolio companies, the role of communities of practice in scaling knowledge, and why the next 12 to 18 months will be defined by whether executive teams can become genuinely fluent in AI — not just familiar with it.
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Valérie Legat
Managing Director, Digital
Valérie joined Astorg in 2024 and is a member of the Operations team in charge of Digital. Prior to this, Valérie was Chief Digital Factory officer at Carrefour and Global CX and Analytics director for the group. Before that, she was an Expert Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, and co-leader of McKinsey Digital Labs.
Valérie started her career by founding Business Lab, a digital agency that became McKinsey & Company's exclusive partner in France. Valérie holds a Master’s in Management from Skema.
She is a French national and is based in Paris.
