Head of Payments at BPCE Digital & Payments | CEO of BPCE Payment Services.

Graduate from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Frédéric Burtz began his career with France Telecom (1993-1998) and then Capgemini (1999-2011). From 2011 to 2016, he was involved in the digital transformation of SNCF and contributed to the development of Voyages-sncf.com, France's leading e-commerce site.

In 2016, Frédéric Burtz joined Group BPCE as chief technology & innovation officer. Under his responsibility, BPCE accelerated its digital and technological transformation and supported the digitalization of its channels.

In 2021, Frédéric will be appointed Group Chief Innovation Officer. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of BPCE Payment Services in 2023 and is also CTO of BPCE Digital & Payments.

Head of Cards at Société Générale Retail France.

Jean-Paul Albert has more than 20-year experience in Cards and Payments.

He joined Société Générale in 1998 where he has held various positions in payments and in marketing.

Jean-Paul Albert began his career as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group and then worked in the credit card business unit of Citibank in Germany and Belgium.

As part of his role Jean-Paul is a board member of Groupement des Cartes Bancaires and of 441 Trust Company Ltd. (UK) and he seats on VISA French Client Council. He is also a member of Observatoire de la Sécurité des Moyens de Paiement.

Jean-Paul is a graduate of ESSEC Business school and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Chief Executive Officer - CB Card Scheme.

Philippe Laulanie is a graduate from the EM Lyon Business School and holds an MBA as well as a degree from the IHEDN (Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence).

Before being appointed to CB as Chief Executive Officer, he has spent most of his career working for BNP Paribas whom he joined in 1989 as Head of Marketing before rapidly moving on to other positions, both in France and abroad.

From General Inspection to Management Control, he has gained extensive knowledge of banking activities.

In 1997, he was entrusted with the task of devising a new distribution model for retail banking, via a multi-channel platform implemented across more than 15 countries.

In 2014, Philippe Laulanie was appointed Chairman of RMW (Retail Mobile Network), a subsidiary of BNP Paribas. This platform, co-designed with major retailers, aims to address the strategic challenges raised by the digitization of business, the simplification of customer experience and the creation of services.

Philippe Laulanie is also Vice-Chairman of the INRC (National Institute for Customer Relationship) and a member of the Board of EFMA

(European Financial Management Association).

Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Agricole Payment Services since October 2016.

In 1986 Valérie Teissèdre began her career as an analyst in Information Systems at EDF. In 1987 she joined Crédit Lyonnais and held various management positions in major projects and extended management within the IT Department, where she was appointed Head of Steering in November 2006, then Director of Development in charge of banking products and services in June 2008. In October 2012 she was appointed Director of Project Management and Processes at LCL, and in May 2014, in addition to that, became IT Director. In July 2014, she became a member of LCL's General Management Committee. She joined Crédit Agricole Payment Services in October 2016 as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of operations.

Valérie Teissèdre is a graduate of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris and holds a Diplôme d’Enseignement Supérieur Technique in IT specialization.

Head of Strategy and Development of BNP Paribas Group Head of Principal Investments

Graduate from Ecole Polytechnique, Michel Vial began his career at Arthur Andersen Consulting in 1982. He joined the BNP Group in 1985 where he worked initially in the Department of Mergers and Acquisitions / Capital Investments, specializing in the technology sector.

In 2008 Michel Vial became the Head of Retail Development, reporting to Jean-Laurent Bonnafé : in charge of BNPP Fortis merger and other projects in retail banking networks and financial services.

Since 2016 Michel Vial is a Board Member of the First Hawaiian Bank (USA), of the First Hawaiian Inc (USA) and of the 441 Trust Company Ltd (UK).

Marc Weiss is Head of Crédit Mutuel Payments Department.

His professional career got off to a unique start as a professional handball player during his studies and the following two years. In 1995, he joined the CIAL organization management team, focusing on international trade and the migration of the hosting platform.

In 2000, he became International Account Manager, specializing in documentary credits.

In 2003, he participated in the centralization of CIAL's foreign services and the merger with SNVB's international department to form CIC Est's international department.

In 2005, he was appointed Technical Manager for Documentary Credits, then National Manager for Documentary Activities.

In 2010, he became Head of the International Business Center (CMI), in charge of the various international transfer, credit and guarantee services.

In 2013, he took over as head of the Services Bancaires “Grands Comptes & Flux Corporate” department.

In 2015, he joined Global Payment Solutions and succeeded Claude Brun in 2017 as Head of the Payments department.

Passionate about sport, particularly handball, he applies the values he acquired in sport to his professional career such as the search of victory for the team thanks to each and everyone’s own qualities toward collective performance.

After graduating from Arts et Métiers (France), Patrick Renouvin began his career in 1980 as an IT engineer at G-CAM (now Inetum).

From 1986 to 1999, Patrick worked as a consultant within the banking and insurance industry ultimately becoming a Senior Manager at Bossard (now Capgemini).

From 1999 to 2012, Patrick leveraged his skills and expertise as Deputy Managing Director at Societe Generale International Retail Banking managing up to 40 subsidiaries. He also managed IT and back offices as Deputy CEO of Credit du Nord. During this period, Patrick held various responsibilities serving as a board member in several of Societe Générale’s subsidiaries abroad.

From 2012 to 2019, he was the Chief Information Officer of La Banque Postale and Réseau La Poste, the chairman of eZyness, an eMoney institution, a board member of Transactis and a member of Digiposte’s strategic committee.

Patrick Renouvin then concluded his career as Chief Operating Officer of Dexia Group in 2024.

Chair of the Board of CEC-UCV Belgium.

Policy Advisor Payments at KBC Bank.

Geert Van Antwerpen started his career in 1993 at the Belgian savings bank HSA where he held different staff functions. After the merger with Centea he was appointed in 2001 as the manager of the Foreign Team where he was responsible for international payments, deposits in foreign currencies, Swift and correspondent banking.

As project leader he ensured a successful migration of the IT systems towards KBC. He became product manager at KBC in 2007 and participated to the launch of SEPA Credit Transfers and to the migration towards the SEPA direct debit. In his role of product manager, he represented KBC in different Belgian and European interbank working groups and task forces w.r.t. payments. In 2016 Geert joined the CEC-UCV Board of Directors of which he was appointed as chair in 2021. Currently he works as a policy advisor and follows the impact of payment related legislation like PSD2.

Geert Van Antwerpen has been appointed as “Censor” to the Board as from June 2022.

Bernard Gouraud started his career in 1974 at Banque Populaire Bretagne Atlantique as a Project Manager.

He was rapidly promoted within the Banque Populaire group, first as the Head of Innovation & Advanced Technologies, then as the Deputy Director of Research & Development.

After having served as the Director of Marketing & Technologies of 2 subsidiaries of the group, Bernard became successively IT Director in 2002, then Director of Technologies of the group in 2003. As such, he was responsible for IT projects, information security, business continuity as well as interbank relations and innovation regarding payment instruments.

In 2009, Bernard Gouraud is appointed as the IT & Technologies Director of BPCE (the new banking group resulting from the merger of Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne).

Beside these responsibilities, Bernard Gouraud has been a member of the EPC Plenary, and a board member of Allbiant It, Natixis Paiements, and CFONB.

With over 30 years' experience in IT optimization, Innovation, and Payment Services, Bernard Gouraud is an Independent Advisor since 2013.

Chief Executive Officer - STET.

Régis has been appointed as CEO of STET as of September 2023.

Prior to taking this role, he was the Head of Payments and a member of the Management Committee at La Banque Postale.

From 2012 to 2015, he was the General Manager of MasterCard France. Prior to 2012, he held several positions in the Financial Institutions Group of McKinsey & Co (Paris) and in the Mergers & Acquisitions teams of AGF-Allianz Group (Paris) and at Goldman Sachs (London & New York).

As part of his role, Régis is a member of French Banking Federation Payments Committee and of Banque de France Observatoire de la Sécurité des Moyens de Paiement.

Régis is also a member of the European Central Bank Market Advisory Group on the Digital Euro.

Régis is the former Chairman of FrenchSys and eZyness, a former Vice-President of GIE Carte Bancaire and Visa Europe France, a former Board member of STET and Transactis and a former member of Banque de France Conseil National des Paiements Scripturaux.

Régis Folbaum is a graduate from ESSEC Business School and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Deputy CEO - STET.

Graduate of The National School of Electronics, IT and Telecommunications of Bordeaux (ENSEIRB), Rodolphe Meyer began his career at the Caisse de Prévoyance of French Polynesia.

Rodolphe has 30+ years of experience in Payments and is an expert at managing large projects and migrations in complex environments implying multiple international stakeholders.

From 1995 to 2006, he worked at Diamis (now Atos/Worldline) as Product Development Manager and participated, among other projects, in the tender for the development of the CORE system for STET.

In 2006, he put his payments expertise at the service of STET, first as Head of Infrastructure, then as Chief Technical Officer.

In 2016, he was appointed Business Development Director of STET, the newly created entity resulting from the merger of STET with SER2S (Switching subsidiary of Cartes Bancaires).

Since 2020, he has been Deputy General Manager of STET.

In 2021, he worked as leader of the Technical Entity Stream for EPI Interim Company to manage the overall architecture of the EPI System for Cards and SCTInst and has served as Senior Advisor for EPI since 2022.

Rodolphe is currently Chief Product Officer in charge of STET’s strategic projects along with Development and Client Relationship teams.

He is also a board member from EACHA.