BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions Makes Changes to Executive Board

January 31, 2019, 08:00 AM

Filed Under: Personnel Announcements

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BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions announced several changes within its General Management Committee.

Following the retirement of Xavier Viollet, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Charlotte Dennery, CEO of BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions, evolved her General Management Committee as follows:

Pascal Layan, 53, has been appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer. He retains his responsibilities as Director of International Business Lines and Marketing. He also takes over the management of consulting activities.
Wolfgang Pinner, 55, Chief Operating Officer, remains in charge of Country Supervision. He has also been appointed as Chief Data Officer. The supervision of the holding company and the Strategy and Development division will also be attached to him.
Delphine Roché, 46, previously responsible for the relationship with Retail Banking in France, joined the Executive Board as Director of Transformation and IT. She will oversee IT Corporate, Process & Efficiency, Digital Transformation, Procurement, and Personnel and Property Security.

Roché began her career at BNP Paribas’ Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) in the Media & Telecom Finance Department. She then joined Groupe Développement as an Investment Manager in the new technologies sector. After having contributed to the launch of Lean Six Sigma at BNP Paribas, she joined Leasing Solutions in 2007 as head of the deployment of this operational excellence methodology through continuous process improvement. She then took the lead of the Marketing and Communication, Business Intelligence and CSR. Since November 2015, she had been the Deputy Head of the Bank Leasing Services France division, which offers financing solutions to BNP Paribas Group’s French Retail Banking clients.

CEO Dennery said, “We are delighted to welcome Delphine Roché to the now rejuvenated and perfectly balanced General Management Committee. Her skills and determination will play a key role in continuing the transformation plan of BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions, particularly, in the digitalization of the company at all levels, to be able to meet the new expectations of our employees, our customers and our partners.”