The meeting took place on the seventh day, facing the sea. No hope of rest in Damien Guermonprez. The devine rather inhabited by the desire to fully immerse in the adventure which is his recently. At present, under the patronage of Vincent Redier that transmitted the broker Aon France branch, he discovered under the Sun of the Côte d'Azur, in the traditional rendez-vous de September of Monte-Carlo, the habits and customs of the small world of insurance and reinsurance. And knowledge with its new customer, if different knew in appearance of the housekeeper surveying linear Auchan and that, in view of the items purchased, the Director General of Bank agreement a position he held nine years what type of credit card offer.
Originally from the North, fourth in a family of seven children, quadra, father of three daughters, began its first year of medicine, validated studies. "But I had no vocation, he says." I wanted to see the world. "Noted. He will lead companies in financial services and it will be seen in the country. "Even if I don't have the Tower of the trade", he said. When, in thirty years, pressed man includes him in would ten more for manager team Renault credit international, he does not hesitate. He crossed the Atlantic for an MBA at Harvard.
On campus, he discovers the industrial group box, "a team of IM which take companies in hand and return". As Director of financial services Europe, it will create and lead four years box credit Europe. "I supported the sale of thousands of tractors and combines," fun Damien Guermonprez, telling a few senior "deals" in colour in Africa or Eastern Europe. Then, in 1999, Auchan offers to boost "a small bank that purrs. The fiber "ch'ti ' is tickled her. He does not succumbed to sedentarization. Under his leadership, the five-time Bank size, team maps 6 million customers and take root in 10 countries, including China and the Russia. With his cap of President of Eurocommerce, brave the mighty credit card strategy and gets the liberalisation of the co-branding.
Temper his zeal
Then why Aon Vincent Redier was looking for a successor. Damien Guermonprez was seduced by the character. His novitiate in insurance "The management of the risk, I had it all my life", says Damien Guermonprez, which, in any event, as is "manager, not as an expert."
Its first roadmap will be to build, with employees jostled by a backup of the employment plan and rapprochement with Benfield , a project of company "he must speak at least once a day to keep the cap". For this fan of motorcycle endurance, the main challenge is likely to temper his zeal. In Auchan, he had put his project in three months... He had sent also dry on vacation. "Before, I refer my stress now, I know turn it into positive energy," be - he, acknowledging "lack of humour to defuse the tensions".
In this regard, "go and have fun" punctuating his speech of arrival to the employees of Aon appears promising.
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