INFO THE FIGARO – It is the market man within the bank who won the race to succeed Frédéric Oudéa.
White smoke at the top of the Societe Generale towers, at La Défense. The board of directors of the French bank chose Friday the successor of Frédéric Oudéa, veteran of the sector at only 59 years old but fourteen years of general management. As revealed by lefigaro.fr, it was Slawomir Krupa, the head of corporate and investment banking activities, who won the unanimous vote of the board of directors.
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The appointment of this Franco-Polish appears at first sight as a solution of continuity. Slawomir Krupa is a pure Societe Generale product. Aged 48, he entered the Defense Bank in 1996, through the royal road of inspection. After a brief foray (1999-2002) into the world of start-ups, he returned to General, still in inspection, before joining the financing and investment branch in 2007. In 2016, Slawomir Krupa headed to New York, where he still lives, to steer US activities at a time…