Bio

I am a recognized digital/mobile payments-banking-commerce & Fintech expert, with a focus on strategy, business development, & innovation. Founder and CEO of Altéir Consulting, created just after I helped launch Zebank, first big internet bank in Europe in 1999. For the last 22 years with Alteir Consulting I worked on projects and advised organizations of all sizes across payment & digital finance industry. With 25 years experience, I had the opportunity to work across the complete value chain helping telcos, banks, insurers, new incumbents and start ups to define new strategies & products, to launch new businesses and to manage major international projects in the telco, payment & digital finance sector. Alteir’s footprint is mainly on continental Europe, with a clear focus on France, Germany and Spain. Among our customers we find Orange, Vivendi, SFR, most of French Banks, Generali, Allianz, GMF, Visa, PCS Mastercard, … I also organize and chair many conferences in Europe since 2009 on payments & digital finance. Since 2011 I am the President of the Payment club of the French Digital economy association (ACSEL) where we gather almost 100 companies on all sizes and all sectors in payment industry to animate French think tank on the digital finance and payment sector. Since 2018 I am also the elected Chairman of ACSEL. Last but not least I created the Paris Fintech Forum in 2015 which is now one of the main global international event on digital finance and fintech (www.parisfintechforum.com)