Financial services company Société Générale has appointed Bruno Delas as group chief information officer, starting on 16 September. He will remain a member of the group management committee.
Delas will be responsible for strengthening the security and operational efficiency of the group’s platforms. He will report to Laura Mather, group chief operating officer and replaces Carlos Gonçalves.
After starting his career at Accenture in 1992, working on several IT mergers between many regional banks of Crédit Agricole, Delas joined savings bank Caisses d’Epargne (CE) in 1997.
He joined Société Générale at the end of 2010 as chief information officer for the Corporate Function.
In January 2015, Delas was appointed chief operating officer and head of innovation and information technology for French retail banking.
Laurent Stricher will take over Delas’s current position as head of innovation, technologies and IT. He will remain chief information officer of Société Générale retail banking network.
In addition, Francis Donnat has been appointed as group general secretary, effective from 1 October. He will replace Gilles Briatta. Donnat will report to Philippe Aymerich, group deputy chief executive officer.
