Olivier Gavalda
Board member of CAA and Pacifica I Permanent representative of Crédit Agricole S.A. and corporate director on the Boards of Predica and CA Assurances Retraite I Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Agricole S.A. in charge of Banque Universelle
Olivier Gavalda has been Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Agricole S.A. in charge of Universal Bank since November 2022. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Crédit Agricole S.A.
Olivier Gavalda has spent his entire career at Crédit Agricole. He joined Crédit Agricole du Midi in 1988 where he successively held the positions of Organisation Project Manager, Branch Manager, Training Manager and finally Head of Marketing. In 1998, he joined Crédit Agricole Ile-de-France as Regional Director, then in 2002 he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Agricole Sud Rhône-Alpes, in charge of Development and Human Resources. In 2007 he became Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Agricole Champagne Bourgogne. In 2010, he joined Crédit Agricole S.A. as Head of the Regional Banks Division and then in 2015 he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of the Development, Customer and Innovation Division. In 2016, he became Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Agricole Ile-de-France.
He holds a Master’s degree in Econometrics and a DESS (post-graduate diploma) in organisation/computing from Arts et Métiers.