Thomas Jacquet appointed Coface Group Investor Relations & Rating Agencies Director

Thomas Jacquet will be joining Coface credit insurer on 12 September as Group Investor Relations & Rating Agencies Director. He succeeds Nicolas Andriopoulos, appointed Managing Director of Coface Re, who continues to manage the Group’s internal and external reinsurance. Thomas Jacquet will report to Carine Pichon, Group Chief Finance & Risk Officer.

Drawing on his knowledge of capital markets and his extensive experience as a financial analyst in the insurance sector, Thomas will strengthen relations with investors, financial analysts and rating agencies, and will develop the Group’s financial communications policy. He will work closely with Cécile Combeau, Investor Relations Officer since Coface entered the stock market in 2014.

Over the course of his career Thomas Jacquet has developed deep expertise in financial analysis, in particular in the insurance sector, establishing and building relations with the sector’s main specialist investors. From 2008 he was Director of European Insurance at Exane BNPParibas and managed a team of analysts, between London and Paris, responsible for covering European insurance companies within the equity research department. His team came 6^th in the latest Extel Europe ranking.

He began his career in 1999, joining Charles Riley Consultants International, primarily to manage projects in the banking sector.  He became a financial analyst in 2001 at Natexis Bleichroeder, covering the European insurance and banking sectors, before joining CA Cheuvreux in 2005, where he became Head of Insurance.

Thomas Jacquet is a graduate of the French National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE) and a member of the  Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA Charterholder).