Deputy Head of Global Finance

and CEO of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa

Slawomir Krupa was appointed Deputy Head of Global Finance in January 2012. He remains CEO of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, function he was appointed to in July 2009. Previously and since 2007, he was Chief of Staff for Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking

Slawomir Krupa began his career in 1996 as an Inspector within Société Générale’s Inspection (Internal Investigations) department. He left the Group in 1999 to found and run an internet start-up in the field of e-finance in Eastern Europe. He joined again in 2002 and continued his work within Société Générale’s Inspection department. He was appointed to the management committee of the department in 2005.

Slawomir Krupa is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Chief Executive Officer for Western Europe
Deputy Head of the Coverage and Investment Banking

Diony Lebot was appointed CEO for Western Europe in February 2012. She was also appointed Deputy Head of the Coverage and Investment Banking in April 2012.
Diony Lebot first joined Societe Generale in 1986 and has spent most of her career in the bank’s structured finance businesses. In 1997 she was appointed Deputy Head of the Financial Engineering department (covering securitization, financial engineering and leasing) before being appointed Global Head of Asset Finance in 2001. She was appointed Head of Corporate Coverage in Europe for the firm’s Corporates & Institutions division in September 2004. She became a member of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking’s Executive Committee at the end of 2006 and a member of the Societe Generale Group Management Committee in 2007.

She graduated from the University Panthéon Sorbonne in Paris, and holds a Masters in Finance and Tax.

CEO of Societe Generale Americas

Craig Overlander was appointed CEO of Societe Generale in February 2012. He joined SG in March 2010 as Deputy CEO for Societe Generale Americas, capitalizing on his experience of more than 30 years in investment banking. Over the span of his career he has held the following senior positions: Global Head of Fixed Income at Wachovia Securities prior to joining SG and Vice Chairman at JP Morgan during the acquisition and integration of Bear Stearns. Craig held numerous management positions at Bear Stearns over his twenty-six years including Head of Fixed Income Global Sales, and then was appointed Co-Head of Global Fixed Income in 2002 and joined the Management Committee in 2007. He has been a member of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking’s Executive Committee since 2010 and a member of the Societe Generale Group Management Committee since 2011.

Chief Executive Officer for Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking Asia Pacific

Hikaru Ogata is appointed as Chief Executive Officer for Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking Asia Pacific. Prior to that he was as Global Head of Fixed Income Distribution and a member of the Fixed Income Executive Committee of BNP Paribas. Starting his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York within the Mergers & Acquisitions team, Mr. Ogata held positions in the fields of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong before joining BNP Paribas, Hong Kong Branch in 1998. At BNP Paribas, he held several positions: firstly was Head of Derivatives Marketing Group, Asia Pacific in Hong Kong, then Head of the Japanese Fixed Income Sales, and was finally promoted Head of Japan Fixed Income business.