BNP Paribas Appoints Alessandro Promutico CEO of L’Atelier BNP Paribas in San Francisco

PARIS, Sept. 5 -- BNP Paribas issued the following news release:

BNP Paribas has appointed Alessandro Promutico as Chief Executive Officer of L'Atelier BNP Paribas in San Francisco, effective 1st September. He succeeds Nathalie Dore, who, having driven the development of L'Atelier BNP Paribas in San Francisco over the past three years, has now taken up the post of Chief Digital & Acceleration Officer at the Group's insurance subsidiary, BNP Paribas Cardif. Alessandro Promutico will report to Louis Treussard, CEO of L'Atelier BNP Paribas. He will be supported in his role by Matthieu Soule, Head of Consulting at L'Atelier BNP Paribas in San Francisco, who is appointed Deputy CEO, while also remaining in charge of the consulting activities for North America.

As CEO, Alessandro Promutico's mission will be to ensure the continued growth of L'Atelier BNP Paribas in North America. L'Atelier BNP Paribas, which recently celebrated in San Francisco its 10th anniversary as a strategic observatory of new trends in Silicon Valley, advises and supports BNP Paribas and its clients in their digital transformation. L'Atelier BNP Paribas in San Francisco has also set up, in partnership with BNP Paribas US subsidiary Bank of the West, the Finlab, an innovation acceleration initiative designed to identify and apply the best innovations in key areas such as cash management and payment solutions.

An Italian citizen, Alessandro Pomutico has some 15 years' experience in the banking and financial sector. In his early career, he worked as an analyst at several major financial sector and consultancy firms, including PwC, J.P. Morgan and Roland Berger. In 2008, he joined BNP Paribas as Marketing Manager of IFS for BNL, the Group's Italian subsidiary, before being appointed in 2010 Head of Marketing within the Global Marketing Department of the Group's insurance subsidiary BNP Paribas Cardif. A tech - notably Fintech - expert, Alessandro Promutico has served since 2015 as Senior Strategy Analyst at L'Atelier BNP Paribas in Paris. He graduated in Business & Economics from both the University of Rome and Liverpool John Moores University, and holds an MBA from the IE/Wharton Business School. He also graduated in Experience Design from the Hyper Island school.