La Française Group appoints Guillaume Cadiou as a member of the Executive Board and CEO

La Française, a multi-expertise asset management group, has strengthened its governance structure and announces the arrival of Guillaume Cadiou as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Executive Board of La Française Group.

Guillaume Cadiou is starting in his role today and will be based in Paris. He will assist Patrick Rivière, Chairman of the Executive Board, in managing all of La Française Group's activities and will work (side by side with Eric Charpentier, Deputy Chief Executive Office of CIC and Chief Executive Officer of the Caisse Régionale de Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe) on the successful creation of the multi-boutique asset management business line, dedicated to third parties, of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale.

This appointment confirms the ambitions of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, announced in September 2022, to fast-track the creation of a powerful Asset Management business line, which along with La Française Group would bring all the management structures of the Bancassurance group under a multi-boutique model. It would therefore become a major player in the French Asset Management landscape, representing €166 billion in assets under management (as of 31/12/2022), located throughout Europe, active in Asia, and offering a wide range of expertise including listed assets, real assets, and alternative management.

His professional background

Guillaume Cadiou was inter-ministerial delegate for business restructuring to the ministers for the economy and employment from October 2020 to February 2023.

He is 46 years old and a graduate of the École Polytechnique (2000), the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (2003), and the Collège des Ingénieurs (2003). He began his career in the budget department and then moved to the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations. In 2009, he was appointed Deputy Director to the office of Patrick Devedjian, minister under the Prime Minister responsible for implementing the Recovery Plan. Guillaume then joined the Imerys group in 2011, where he was Director of Strategy and Development and became Managing Director of an operating subsidiary. In 2017, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors for the financial services company Kepler Cheuvreux.