Our Management

French | 1957
A graduate of the École Polytechnique, Yves Martrenchar joined the BNP Paribas Group in 1980 and spent his entire career there, first in the France network.He is a member of the Board of Directors of several BNP Paribas subsidiaries and was President of Crédit Logement from 2005 to 2010. Since September 2012, Yves Martrenchar has been Head of Human Ressources Group and member of the Group Executive Committee. He has been since 1st November 2020 Senior Advisor to the Group.

Swiss | 1959
After studying law at the University of Fribourg and at the Columbia University School of Law, Christian Bovet practiced as an associate lawyer, then as a professor of law. He joined the Federal Commission of Communication (ComCom) in 1999 and served until 2011. In 2014, he joined the BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA Board of Directors.

Notable accomplishments

| Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva from 2007 to 2012.
| Member of the management board for the Centre of Banking and Financial Law of the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva
|Visiting professor at the Universities of Lausanne, Aix-Marseille, Renmin University of China (Beijing) and Grenoble, as well as at the Max Planck Institute in Munich
| Editor of the publication “Finanzmarktaufsicht / Monitoring financial markets” (Helbing Lichtenhahn) and co-editor of the Western Swiss Treatise on competition law (Helbing Lichtenhahn) and of a collection of papers on Swiss and European competition law, with electronic application (Weblaw)

Further implications

| Member of the Board and the Office of the Foundation for Medical Research (Geneva)
| Member of the Scientific Committee for the “Concurrences” review

Swiss | 1970
Alumni from the University of St. Gallen, Carole Ackermann graduated with a PhD in marketing. She is now a senior lecturer for business administration and integration projects.

After more than 12 years working in various companies as a consultant, project manager and then director, she co.founded and became CEO of Diamondscull AG in 2007.

Carole Ackermann invests early in companies in the technology/ICT field. She is also non-executive director of several companies such as Allianz Suisse, BKW, BVZ Holding, the innovation agency be-advanced, co-president of the Female Innovation Forum and a jury member of Venture Kick.

She has an entrepreneurial spirit with an integrative mind-set and down-to-earth behaviour. She is eager to identify, discuss and promote new ideas and help transferring them into concrete projects and results. She also participates on panels or as speaker at conferences on entrepreneurship, start-ups and women in this field.

Further implications

|Member of the board Allianz Suisse, Wallisellen
|Member of the board BKW AG, Bern
|Member of the board BVZ Holding AG, Zermatt
|Senior Lecturer University St. Gallen
|Chairwomen EHL Holding SA, Lausanne

French | 1963
Xavier Boissinot graduated with an MBA from the IAE Business School of Aix-en-Provence (1988) and from the ESIGELEC engineering school of Rouen (1987). He began his career as Financial Controller for W.R. Grace in New York, before joining the BNP Paribas Group in Paris in 1990 at the IT Department and then at the General Inspection. Between 1998 and 2008, he held several management positions as COO in international subsidiaries in Luxembourg, Asia and Switzerland, mainly for Wealth Management activities. In 2008, he joined Group Human Resources in Paris, then was appointed COO of Corporate Real Estate before joining the General Inspection in 2013 as Deputy Head.

Since September 2022, he is Regional COO Wealth Management for International Markets based in Luxembourg.

Swiss | 1953
A graduate of the University of Zurich and the Controller Academy of Munich, Herbert Bolliger joined the BAYER (Suisse) SA group from 1980 to 1983 before joining the Migros group. He held the position of Managing Director for the Migros Federation of Cooperatives from 2005 through to December 2017.

Further implications

| Member of the Board for the “Cerebral” Foundation
| Member of the executive committee for the Marketing Institute of the University of Saint-Gall
| Member of the Honorary Committee for the Forum Europe Lucerne

French | 1972
Following studies at the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) and Washington University, Yannick Jung joined the BNP Group in 1997. He then became part of the management team of the Corporate and Institutional Banking branch in 2007. He has been Head of Global Banking EMEA since 2018.

Source of inspiration

| Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa

Danish | 1974
After graduating from Cambridge University with a Masters of Engineering, Simon Larsen joined HSBC in 1997, where he led a 22-year international career with leadership roles in banking, wealth management and insurance businesses across Europe and Asia. From 2013-2018, he was COO of HSBC’s Private Banking business in EMEA, based in Switzerland.

Since 2020, he has been an entrepreneur and senior advisor to technology / fintech companies including Accenture and RegData S.A.

Further implications

| Co-founder and COO, Project Core+
| Senior Advisor, Accenture
| Strategic Advisor, Regdata SA
| Member of Campus Advisory Board, Ecole Internationale de Genève

French | 1964
Graduated from École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), Vincent Lecomte joined BNP Paribas in 1992. He joined BNP Paribas Wealth Management in 2010 as Chief Operating Officer. Since 2011, he is co-Chief Executive Officer.

Swiss | 1958
After a law degree at the University of Zurich, followed by a lawyer and a notary licence, Marina Masoni joined the law offices of Masoni-Fontana in Lugano. She has been MP of the Great Council, then State Counsellor, Minister of Finance and Economy for the Canton of Tessin. In 1998, 2000 and 2005, Marina Masoni was President of the cantonal government. In 2007, she joined the general management team for Wegelin & Co. in Saint-Gall, then became director of the Lugano branch from 2008 to 2010. Since 2010, she has been a consultant at the law offices of Masoni-Fontana.

Further implications

Executive boards

| Fondazione Teatro dell’Architettura (Mendrisio), Vice-chairwoman of the Foundation’s Board
| Magazzini Generali con Punto Franco SA (Chiasso), Chairwoman of the Board of Directors
| Stiftung für MeinungsFreiheit und MedienVielfalt (Bern), Chairwoman of the Foundation’s Board

Professional organisations

| Ticinomoda, Associazione fabbricanti e operatori ramo abbigliamento del Cantone Ticino (Lugano), Chairwoman
| Chamber of Commerce, Canton of Ticino, Member of the Board

Belgian
Thomas Mennicken graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Solvay Business School) in 1990.

At the beginning of his career, he was trader at JP Morgan in Brussels and New York.

He joined BNP Paribas in 1994 to become Head of the Bond Option Desk in Paris.  In 1997, he moved to London to head up the Market Risk Analytics in Group Risk Management.  In 2000, he became Head of Market & Counterparty Risk Analytics and in 2007, Head of Risk Architecture. In 2009, he was appointed member of the Executive Board and Chief Risk Officer of BNP Paribas Fortis. In 2014, he took the position of Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) of BNP Paribas Fortis and Head of CIB Corporate Clients Financing & Advisory EMEA at the BNP Paribas Group level.

Since October 2016, he has joined RISK to become Chief Risk Officer for CIB.

French | 1972
A graduate from EM Lyon in 1994, Franciane Rays starts her career at Arthur Andersen and then Ernst & Young in the audit and finance consulting field. She joins BNP Paribas in 2011 at Finance Group where she leads several projects and then manages the Group’s regulatory liquidity. In 2018 she was appointed as CFO of BNP Paribas Fortis. She is currently CFO of the CIB department for the BNP Paribas Group.

Swiss & French | 1953
A graduate of the École Centrale de Paris and the University of Wisconsin, Yves Serra started his career working in France and Asia for Sulzer Brothers. In 1992, he joined Charmilles Technologies in Tokyo as Regional CEO for Asia before being appointed as CEO of the Geneva-based subsidiary. He moved to Georg Fischer in 2003 as CEO of the Piping Systems subsidiary and became CEO of the group in 2008. He joined the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA in 2019.

Further implications

| Chairman of the Board of Directors of Stäubli Holding AG
| Vice Chairman of the Board of Georg Fischer AG
| Member of the Board BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA
| Advisor Recruit Holdings Tokyo Japan
| Member of the Board of the Chapter Board “Doing Business in USA” of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce (Switzerland)
| Member of the Board of “Schweizerischen Management Gesellschaft” (SMG)