Christian Collin appointed Chief Financial and Risk Officer of Groupama

The appointment of Christian Collin as Chief Financial and Risk Officer was accompanied by the reorganising of a number of support departments of Groupama SA.

The Group Risk, Internal Control and Actuarial departments are now headed by the Chief Financial and Risk Officer, Christian Collin, under the responsibility of, René Cado, who reports directly to Jean Azéma for the general audit.

Commenting on the new organisation, Christian Collin said: “The creation of a Finance and Risk Department is particularly suited to a group like Groupama, which has instituted a risk assessment procedure at all decision-making levels, whether strategic or operational. It will be all the more relevant in our Group’s future regulatory framework.”

Christian Collin, aged 55, is a business school graduate from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and the Franco-German Chamber of Commerce. He started his career in 1977 as task officer within the Financial Department of Ciments Lafarge France. A year later, he joined the Economic Development Bank of Tunisia as task officer.

In 1980, he joined the teams of GAN Incendie-Accidents as Manager of the Organisation Department. In 1986, he was appointed Manager of the General Affairs Department within the General Secretariat of the GAN Group. He was promoted to General Secretary of the Group in 1991, then became Head of the Strategy and Finance Department in 1996. In 1998, after the Group’s privatisation, he was appointed Director, Finance, Legal Affairs and Taxation as well as Director, Strategic Marketing, Quality and Communications of GAN SA.

In January 2000, Christian Collin took up the post of Director, Group Legal Affairs, Taxation and Logistics and was responsible for the restructuring of GAN and the merger of Groupama SA and GAN SA. He was appointed General Secretary of Groupama in September 2002. He became as well the head of Group Human Resources, Strategy and Mergers Acquisitions in 2005.

Christian Collin has been Chief Financial and Risk Officer of Groupama since 1st January 2010. In this capacity, he is in charge of the Financing and Investments Department, the Group Accounting Department, Reinsurance and Steering, the Group Risk, Internal Control and Actuarial Departments, and the Group’s financial subsidiaries (Groupama Asset Management, Groupama Private Equity, Groupama Banque and Groupama Immobilier).