Jérôme Grivet will join Crédit Agricole S.A.’s senior management team on 21 May 2015. He will become deputy managing director in charge of finance. He is replacing Bernard Delpit, who is leaving the Group after four years.
Jérôme Grivet started his career in the French civil service in 1989. He was an advisor on European Affairs to France’s prime minister Alain Juppé, before joining Crédit Lyonnais in 1998 as head of finance and management control for the commercial banking operations in France. In 2001, he was appointed as Crédit Lyonnais’ director of strategy. He then performed the same role for Crédit Agricole S.A. In 2004, he took responsibility of finance, general secretariat and strategy at Calyon, which has since changed its name to CACIB, before being appointed deputy chief executive officer in 2007. Since December 2010, Jérôme Grivet has been chief executive officer of Crédit Agricole Assurances and Predica insurance.
Jérôme Grivet, 53, is a graduate of ESSEC, Sciences Po in Paris and the École Nationale d’Administration, and he has also served as a senior Treasury auditor.
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