Dominique Ferrero
Adviser to the Chairman of Natixis
Director since: 2000
Current appointment ends: 2014 General Meeting
Age: 65
Other appointments: Permanent representative of Natixis on the Board of Directors of Natixis Private Equity.
Appointments that have expired during the last five financial years: Member of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of Natixis; permanent representative of Natixis on the Boards of Directors of Natixis Global Asset Management and Coface; and Chairman of the Management Board of Ixis Corporate & Investment Bank (Ixis CIB).
Background: A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, Dominique Ferrero joined Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur (BFCE) in 1978. He was seconded from BFCE from 1981 to 1986 to various positions in the French Treasury, the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Tourism and the Ministry for Industrial Redeployment and Foreign Trade. From 1988 to 1991, Mr Ferrero was Development Manager at BFCE and a member of the Executive Management Committee, responsible for creating and developing BFCE’s long-term corporate finance and merchant banking activities. He was named Managing Director of Société Financière de la BFCE, then Deputy Managing Director and member of the Management Board in 1991, before being named Managing Director of BFCE in 1994. In 1996, he became Managing Director of the Natexis group (resulting from the merger of BFCE and Crédit National), then Managing Director of Natexis Banques Populaires (resulting from the merger of Natexis and Caisse Centrale des Banques Populaires) in 1999 and Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Lyonnais from 1999 to 2003. From 2004 to 2006, Mr Ferrero was Senior Adviser and Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe and, from 2006 to 2008, he was Chief Executive Officer of Natixis. He is now an adviser to the Chairman of Natixis.