Programme 2022

Jerome currently serves as Head of Global Markets, Asia Pacific.

Prior to taking up the current role, he was Head of Pricing and New Products for Cross Asset Solutions, Asia Pacific, then Head of Financial Engineering, Global Markets, Asia Pacific.

Jerome joined Societe Generale Paris in 2004 as a Financial Engineer in the Equity Derivatives Department. He transferred to New York in 2006, before taking up the post of Head of Financial Engineering for Japan in 2008.

Jerome graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, and holds a Master’s degree in Actuarial Science from the Institut de Science Financiere et d’Assurances

as well as a Master’s degree in Financial Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique.

Michelle covers China and Taiwan and is based in Hong Kong. She started her career at BNP Paribas London where she worked with a team of European economists and helped analyse topical macroeconomic issues. Before joining SG, she was a Senior Economist at TS Lombard, an independent research company, and focused on a number of Asian economies. Michelle holds an M. Phil. in Economics from Cambridge University and a first-class honors degree in Economics from UCL.

Experienced Chief Economist with a demonstrated history of working in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Strong finance professional skilled in Financial Risk, Enterprise Risk Management, Risk Management, Reinsurance, and Financial Services. Experiences cover most Asia-Pacific markets.

Frank Benzimra joined Société Générale in 1994 and has worked in various equity derivatives and research positions in Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He is currently Head of Asia Equity Strategy and a Multi-Asset Strategist. Frank is part of the Global Asset Allocation team, which has been ranked No.1 in the Extel survey from 2008 to 2019. He is a graduate of Sciences-Po and the London School of Economics; he has also been a research student at Tokyo University.

Kiyong joined SG in March 2018 with responsibility for covering interest rate markets in Asia. In this capacity he undertakes research on local markets covering macro strategy and investment recommendations. He has 20 years of broad, multi-asset class experience, at investment banks and asset managers across foreign exchange, equities and fixed income with various responsibilities of trader, portfolio manager and strategist. Prior to joining SG, he was an Asia Rates Strategist at Deutsche Bank after working at HSBC in the same capacity. Prior to these investment banking roles, he was fixed income strategist and equity portfolio manager at Samsung Asset Management. He holds an MIF degree from London Business School and a Bachelor degree from Yonsei University in Economics.

Tommy is the Head of Fixed Income Pricing, Asia Pacific.

He is in charge of the Fixed Income structuring team for APAC which mandate is to provide products and solutions for corporate, distribution and institutional clients with a focus on structured and exotic products across rates, credit and forex. Previously, he was Head of Commodity Investor Group, Asia Pacific based in Singapore where he oversaw the pricing, product push and trading of commodity investor products for financial institutions. He was also in charge of developing our exotic business with corporate clients.

Tommy joined the Singapore office from Societe Generale in Paris where he was a trader, managing the investor and corporate commodity structured products book since 2011. Tommy joined Societe Generale in 2006 where he started his career as a Market Risk Manager for the hedge funds platform in Paris. He was subsequently appointed as a Quantitative Market Risk Manager for exotic equity derivatives in 2009. Tommy is a graduate from Centrale-Supelec with a major in Applied Mathematics in Finance.

Olivier currently serves as Head of Structuring for Products & Solutions, Global Markets for Asia Pacific region.  He has joined Société Générale in 1998.

Prior to his current position, Olivier was Deputy Head of Structuring for Products & Solutions, and Head of the Cross Structuring, Group Global Markets for Asia Pacific region. Before wording in Asia Pacific, Olivier was the Head of Financial Engineering in the Cross Asset Solution division of Global Markets for the Americas. Similar to Asia, the range of products offered to Société Générale’s investor base in the Americas includes customized solutions linked to Equities, Commodities, Interest Rate, Credit, Currencies and Hedge Funds. In the insurance space, Olivier has helped create the two Societe Generale wholly owned reinsurance companies and transact full reinsurance and capital market reinsurance solutions with US and non-US direct writers.

Before going to the U.S., Olivier worked in Hong Kong in the Equity Corporate Finance/Corporate Derivatives team focused on designing derivative solutions for key Asian clients.  He holds an MSc in Finance and Business Administration from the Colorado School of Mines and is a Graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique Paris where he majored in Math and Finance.

Based in Hong Kong, Pierre Leconte is a financial engineer part of Société Générale Global Markets Cross Structuring Group. He joined the team in 2018 and mostly handles trades for institutional clients in Asia-Ex Japan. Prior to that Pierre spent 8 years as a financial engineer at Lyxor AM both in Paris and Hong Kong where he was in charge of structuring alternative investment and structured funds. He started his career in the SG Group as an equity linked derivatives structurer in Tokyo in 2006. Pierre holds a master’s degree in finance from Neoma Business School in France.

Jung-Jin joined Societe Generale in 2007 within the Sales team for Korea covering equity derivatives, based in Hong Kong. Prior to his current role, Jung-Jin was the Head of Cross Asset Distribution Sales for Korea following his relocation to Seoul with the expansion of Societe Generale’s onshore Korea platform. Later on he moved back to Hong Kong where he became Head of Global Markets Cross Asset Sales for Private Banks. In 2019 he was appointed Head of Cross Asset Distribution Sales for Asia, in addition to his previous mandate.

Prior to joining Societe Generale, Jung-Jin worked at Macquarie in Seoul within the Financial Advisory and Project Financing team.

Jung-Jin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Yonsei University in Korea.