BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions announced the appointment of Isabelle Loc as Chief Executive Officer. She succeeds Charlotte Dennery, who becomes Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas Personal Finance.

Loc will report to Thierry Laborde, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Retail Banking division of the BNP Paribas Group and will be responsible for pursuing the growth and development of BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions and for outlining and implementing its next Medium-Term strategic plan (2022-2025).

Laborde said, “I would like to thank Charlotte Dennery for the strong momentum that she has built for BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions through the expansion and transformation of the business over the past six years. With her expertise and solid knowledge of the Group, Isabelle Loc has the necessary skills to continue accelerating the growth of a business that lies at the heart of the real economy.”

Loc, 38, has been the Head of Real Assets, EMEA at BNP Paribas CIB since 2018 and has played a key role in advising and financing clients across the energy, natural resources, infrastructures, transportation and real estate sectors. Between 2016 and 2018, she was a Senior Banker in charge of BNP Paribas’ strategic clients. She had first joined the BNP Paribas Group Paribas in 2010 within the Global Equity & Commodity Derivatives teams and was later appointed the Secretary of the Group’s Executive Committee in 2013. Loc began her career at McKinsey & Company. She has graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and from Columbia University.

In 2020, BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions, European leader of professional equipment finance, financed 310,000 projects for a total volume of $15.6 billion  in 20 countries, in Europe and also Asia, the United States and Canada.