Head of Global Markets

Dan Fields has been appointed Head of Global Markets as of 3 January 2012. He was previously Deputy Head of Global Markets since February 2011.Dan Fields first joined Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking in 1994 as an Equity Derivatives Trader in the bank’s New York office.  In 1999, he moved to Sydney, Australia to set up the Equity Derivatives business. He returned to New York in 2002 to set up the Hedge Fund Group for SG Americas Securities, LCC, a registered broker-dealer and subsidiary of Societe Generale. He moved to Paris in June 2006 to head the flow and listed product sales group. He was appointed Global Head of Trading in 2009. Dan is a member of Societe Generale Group Management Committee since January 2011.

Dan Fields holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Columbia College in New York City.

Head of Global Markets in the Americas

François Barthelemy has been Head of the Markets in the Americas since July 2009. Previously, he was Head of Global Equities & Derivatives Solutions in the Americas since January 2007. He first joined Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking in 1990 as an Equity Derivatives trader in Paris. In 1992, he joined the Equity Derivatives Trading Group in New York and became Head of Trading for Equity Derivatives in 1996. In 2007, he was appointed Head of Global Equities and Derivatives Solutions in New York.

Barthelemy holds a master's degree in Engineering and Finance from École Centrale Paris.

Deputy Global Head of Corporate Finance
Head of Strategic Equity Transactions

Olivier Buttier was appointed Deputy Global Head of Corporate Finance in April 2012. He also remains Head of Strategic Equity Transactions, a position he holds since July 2009. Previously, he was in charge of origination in this team.
Olivier Buttier joined Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking in London in 1997 in the Corporate Banking department. In 1999 he joined the Strategic Equity Transactions department in Paris where he was responsible for a portfolio of French and European Corporate clients. In this position he led different transactions in fields like international employee savings scheme, stakeholding management, equity linked hedging, share buy-back programme.
Olivier graduated from HEC.

Head of Global Markets for Asia Pacific

Franck Drouet was named Head of Global Markets for Asia Pacific in January 2012. He was previously Deputy Head of Global Markets for Asia Pacific, since July 2009.
He joined the Group in 1990, initially working in Nikkei options Basket Trading in Tokyo and then in Basket Trading in Zurich. He transferred to Paris in 1996 to take up the position of Head of Warrants Trading. He was appointed Head of Derivatives Trading, Hong Kong in 1997. In 2003, he moved to Tokyo as Head of Equity Derivatives in Asia. In 2005, he took up the position of Head of Volatility Trading Europe in the Equity Derivatives division.
Frank is a graduate of the Ecole Centrale and has a Master’s degree from HEC.

Head of Global Equity Flow

David Escoffier was appointed Head of Global Equity Flow in April 2012. Prior to that, he was Co-Head of Global Equity Flow since July 2009.
David Escoffier began his equity derivatives career in 1993 at Credit Lyonnais in Paris, before moving to London to create Credit Lyonnais’ UK sales desk. Escoffier moved to New York in 1997 to head Credit Lyonnais’ sales effort in the region. Escoffier then joined SG Cowen in New York, a former subsidiary of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, as Head of Distribution for the Americas. In 2003, he was named Head of Equity Derivatives in London, a position he held until February 2007 when he was appointed Head of Global Equities and Derivatives Solutions in London, reporting to Christophe Mianné, Global Head of Global Equities and Derivatives Solutions. In 2008, Escoffier took over global responsibility for Equity Derivatives Flow & Hedge Fund Group sales.
David Escoffier is a graduate of Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Lyon

Head of Global Research

Patrick Legland was appointed Head of Global Research in July 2009. Prior to that, he was Head of Cash Equities starting in 2006.

Legland joined Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking in January 2003 as Head of pan-European Equity Research and as a member of the SG CIB management board. Focused on independence, innovation and a fundamental approach, Legland led the Pan-European Equity Research team to a top ranking in European equities and to a number-one ranking on French Equities. Before joining SG CIB, Legland was  Managing Director responsible for French research at UBS Warburg. Prior to joining UBS, between 1993 and 2000 Legland worked for Paribas Capital Markets where he successively had responsibility for the French product in Paris, managed the Asian research department in Hong Kong and headed the Paribas pan-European research office in London. Prior to this, Patrick Legland was a financial analyst at Phillips & Drew in London.

Legland is a graduate of the École Supérieure de Commerce of Lille. Legland is a member of the French investment analyst society, SFAF, of which he is President of the Deontology Commission.

Global Head of Fixed Income & Currencies

Danielle Sindzingre was appointed Global Head of Fixed Income & Currencies business line in April 2012. She was formerly Global Head of Treasury and Repo, since 2008.
Danielle joined Société Générale in 1997 in charge of covering the Franc and then the Euro within the French treasury activity. In 2001 she became Head of Paris treasury and long term funding. In 2005, she was appointed Deputy Head of the bank treasury activity, repo and arbitrage for the debt platform in Europe and Asia. Before joining Société Générale Danielle worked for 8 years for the Banque Indosuez Group.
Danielle Sindzingre is a graduate from ENSAE and IAF.

Global Head of Commodities Markets
Co-Head of Energy and Natural Resources

Jonathan Withehead was appointed Global Head of Commodities Markets, and Co-Head of Energy and Natural Resources in April 2012. He was previously Deputy Global Head of Commodity Markets, since May 2011, at the time he joined SG CIB.
Jonathan has over 20 years experience in the Commodities markets, initially in the energy business, but more recently has managed broader Commodities businesses, encompassing Metals and Agricultural products. Jonathan started his career at Mobil in the Supply & Trading group, and has trading, origination and management experience with Barclays Capital, EDF Trading, Dynegy and Enron, and has worked in the UK, the US, Japan, Spain and France.
Jonathan graduated from Newcastle University with a Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and has an MBA from IMD in Switzerland.