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Gilles Grapinet
Gilles Grapinet, January 2020
Gilles Grapinet, January 2020
Born (1963-07-03) July 3, 1963 (age 60)
Aix-en-Provence (France)
EducationÉcole nationale d'administration (ENA)
OccupationChairman & CEO
Years activeCEO since 2013, Chairman since 2019
Known forChairman & CEO of Worldline

Gilles Grapinet, born July 3, 1963 in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), is a French former high-ranking official[1][2][3][4] and a French businessman[5][6][7][8][9].

He is Chairman & CEO of Worldline[8], a French company in the CAC 40[10].

Education

Having studied at the Prytanee National Militaire de La Flèche (Sarthe), he obtained a Master's Degree in public law from the University of Aix-Marseille before joining the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in 1990.

Upon graduating from the ENA in 1992 (Condorcet class)[11], he became French Inspecteur Général des Finances (3rd class in 1993, 2nd class in 1996).

Career

High-ranking official

In 1996, he joined the French Tax Directorate where he was responsible in particular for management control, then strategy and information system.

From 2000 to 2002, he directed the Copernic program, a service with national jurisdiction aiming at overhauling and simplifying IT for the tax activities of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance[12]

In 2003, he joined the cabinet of the French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, as an advisor for economic and financial affairs. In 2004, he was appointed chief of staff to the Minister of Economy Hervé Gaymard, a position which he kept after Mr Gaymard’s resignation. He was Thierry Breton’s chief of staff until April 2007.

CEO

In May 2007, he took over as interim director of the French National Audit Office before joining Crédit Agricole's general management as head of strategy.[13]

In 2009, he became deputy CEO of the Atos Group. Concurrently, in 2014, he oversaw the IPO of Atos’ payment business, Worldline, of which he became CEO a year before.[14]

In 2015, he brought together Worldline and the Dutch company Equens to give birth to the European leader in online payment.[15]

In May 2018, he led for Worldline the acquisition of SIX Payment Services, the payment services division of the Swiss Group SIX, for an amount of 2.3 billion euros financed mainly by the issuing of new shares. With the integration of the 1,600 employees of SIX Payment Services and its merchant acquisition activities and services serving more than 200,000 merchants for an income of around 530 million euros, Worldline achieved a 30% increase in its turnover as well as a number one position in Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg. Worldline's ambition through this transaction was to create a European payment champion.[16]

In April 2019, following the announcement by Atos of the distribution of approximately 23.5% of the share capital of Worldline to its shareholders, he led the exit of Worldline from the consolidation scope of the Atos group, thus giving the company its new fully autonomous status.[17]

In February 2020, he announced the proposed public offer for all Ingenico shares, which would create, at the close of the transaction, the fourth largest player worldwide in the payment services sector with around 20,000 employees in 50 countries.[18]

References

  1. ^ "Gilles Grapinet is reappointed head of Thierry Breton's cabinet". LesEchos (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Gilles Grapinet (Copernic Program): "We want to create a unified user-oriented information system"". 01Net (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Gilles Grapinet: "Thierry Breton victim of suspicions without any substance"". LePoint (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Gilles Grapinet is appointed Adviser for Economic and Financial Affairs in the Office of the Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin". LesEchos (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Gilles Grapinet joins Crédit Agricole's General Management Committee and Executive Committee". Crédit Agricole (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Atos Origin organization chart". LesEchos (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Atos: Thierry Breton brings in his former Chief of Staff". LeMagIT (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Worldline Executive Committee". Worldline.com. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Gilles Grapinet - Chairman/CEO, Worldline SA". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Worldline: payment specialist wordline returns to CAC 40". BFM Bourse (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Pupils' individual files "CONDORCET" promotion January 1990 - January 1992". France Archives (in French). Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Avec Copernic, Bercy fomente sa révolution de la relation client". Les Echos (in French). 2001-12-17. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  13. ^ "Gilles Grapinet has been appointed as Crédi... | Crédit Agricole". www.credit-agricole.com. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  14. ^ Finance, Finance, Digital Finance, Crypto. "Worldline, the European leader in e-payments transactional services is up and running". Quotidien finance digitale, finance décentralisée, blockchain (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ "Worldline And Equens Intend To Join Forces To Create The New Pan-European Leader In Payment Services". m.mondovisione.com. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  16. ^ "Worldline to acquire SIX Payment Services". Finextra Research. 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  17. ^ "Atos to spin off 23.4% stake in Worldline". Finextra Research. 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  18. ^ "Worldline to buy Ingenico for $8.6B in major payments consolidation play". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
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