CEO, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking

Didier Valet is appointed CEO of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking as of 3 January 2012. He started his career as an Analyst within the Economic and Financial Research Department of Banque Indosuez and then joined Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as Equity Research Analyst. In 2000, he was appointed Head of Societe Generale Securities' European Banking Research team and then became Head of Investor Relations of Societe Generale. Didier was appointed Head of Strategic Performance Management in 2007 and then went on to become Chief Financial Officer in 2008.

He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE). He also received a diploma from Société Française des Analystes Financiers (SFAF).

Deputy CEO of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking

Christophe Mianné has been appointed Deputy CEO of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking as of 3 January 2012. Prior to this he was Head of Global Markets since July 2009.

Christophe Mianné joined Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking in 1988 in the sales department of the derivatives group and was later the Head of Financial Engineering until 1992 when he was appointed Head of Sales & Marketing for Equity Derivatives. In 1996 he became Deputy Head of the division and was appointed Global Head of Equity Derivatives in 1999. In 2007 he was appointed Head of the Global Equities & Derivatives Solutions division. Christophe Mianné then became the Head of the Global Equities and Derivatives Solutions and the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities divisions in February 2009. He has been a member of the Société Générale Group Management Committee since July 2001 and is also the Chairman of the Board of Lyxor Asset Management.

Christophe Mianné is a graduate of the École Centrale de Paris.

Head of Coverage and Investment Banking

Thierry Aulagnon was appointed Head of the Coverage and Investment Banking Division in July 2009.

He was previously heading the Corporates, Institutions and Advisory Division since January 2007.
Between 1975 and 1996, Aulagnon held several positions in the French Ministry of Treasury including Alternate Executive Director for France at the International Monetary Fund, Advisor to the Cabinet of the Minister of Economy, Finances & Budget, Deputy Director of the Treasury for banking affairs and public debt management, Head of the State Holdings Department and Chief Adviser to the Minister of Economy & Finance. In 1996, he became a managing director of the GAN insurance company. Aulagnon joined Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking in 2000 as Senior Banker with responsibility for global relations with a number of large companies, governments and supranationals. He was then appointed Head of Global Investment Banking Division in 2003.

Aulagnon is a graduate of École Nationale d'Administration.

Deputy Head of Global Finance

David Coxon was appointed Deputy Head of Global Finance in July 2009. Prior to that, he was Deputy Head of Global Capital Markets Financial Engineering Activites.

Coxon started his career as a solicitor in International Finance at Linklater & Paine's in London and New York , before moving in 1987 to Paribas Capital Markets in New York as a structured finance banker. He returned to London in 1990 with Paribas as Global Head of Structured Finance. In 1996, he moved to Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking as head of UK Financial Engineering, was promoted to Deputy Global Head of Financial Engineering in 1997 and in 2001 became global head of Tax, Debt Advisory and Hybrid Products within the Debt Capital Markets division. In January 2007, Coxon became Global Head of Structuring & Trading before being appointed Deputy Head of Global Capital Markets Financial Engineering Activites in April 2008.

Coxon holds an LLB from the University of Nottingham.

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.

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.

Head of Strategy & Corporate Development, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking 

Christophe Lattuada was appointed Head of Strategy & Corporate Development in January 2012. He was previously Deputy Head of Strategy & Corporate Development since 2009. Prior to joining the bank, Christophe Lattuada worked eight years as a Principal in the Paris office of the Boston Consulting Group, where he led numerous strategy assignments in the financial institution and energy sectors.Christophe Lattuada holds a Master in Business Administration from ESSEC Business School Paris.

Chief Operating Officer

Christophe Leblanc has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking as of 3 January 2012. He was previously Chief Operating Officer for Global Markets since 2009.

Christophe Leblanc started his career within the Inspection services of Societe Generale Group, the internal auditing and consultancy unit reporting to the Chairman Office. In 1998, he was named Deputy Chief Financial Officer of SG Cowen in New York, when Societe Generale acquired the US Broker. In 2000, he became Chief Financial Officer of Societe Generale Americas. In 2001, he became Deputy Chief Financial Officer of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking. In 2005, he joined the equity derivatives business as Head of Resources and Sales organisation. In 2007, he became Chief Operating Officer of the Global Equities and Derivatives Solutions division. Since 2009, he was Chief Operating Officer for Global Markets.

Christophe Leblanc is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique.

Head of Global Finance

Pierre Palmieri has been appointed Head of Global Finance as of 3 January 2012. He was previously Deputy Head of Global Finance (formerly Capital Raising and Financing) since  April 2008. Prior to that, he was Global co-Head of Natural Resources and Energy Financing.

Pierre Palmieri began his career at Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking in 1987 in the Export Finance department. Then he took the responsibility for a finance engineering team. In 1994 he joined the commodities finance team and was appointed Global Head of Structured Commodity finance in 2001. His responsibilities were broadened in 2003 to include the mining sector and again in 2005 to include trade finance activities. Pierre is a member of Societe Generale Group Management Committee since January 2011.

Pierre Palmieri is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Tours.

Project Advisor to evaluate the potential creation of a new Scarce Resources department

Richard Paolantonacci was appointed Project Advisor to evaluate the potential creation of a new Scarce Resources department in January 2012. From June 2009 Richard Paolantonacci was in charge of management of the Scarce Resources (liquidity, equity, balance sheet) allocated to the Global Markets division. He joined the Group in 1986, as a Salesperson for French Retail Banking. Subsequently, he was appointed as Deputy Administrative Director, in charge of the Back Office function, Accounting and Management Control from 1993 to 1994 for Société Générale Suisse (formerly Banque SOGENAL). He became Administrative Manager of Equity Derivatives Trading in 2008 in SG CIB, and Head of Equity Finance activities in 2009.
Richard Paolantonacci graduated Institut Universitaire de Technologie d’Aix en Provence.

Advisor to Didier Valet and Christophe Mianné

Jean-Luc Parer has been named Advisor to Didier Valet and Christophe Mianné as of 3 January 2012 and until the end of March 2012. He was previously Head of Global Finance (formerly Capital Markets & Financing) since January 2007.

Jean-Luc Parer began his career in 1981 within Societe Generale's Inspection department. He then joined Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking in 1991 as Deputy Head and later Head of Structured Finance. In 2001 he was involved in setting up the debt finance business and in 2003 he became responsible for supervising the bank's Debt Capital Markets activities. He was appointed Deputy Global Head of Debt Finance in 2005. Jean-Luc Parer is a member of Societe Generale Group Management Committee.

Jean-Luc Parer is a graduate of HEC and holds a Master's degree in Law