KBC Group: Changes at the top of KBC Group
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Brussels, 16 March 2021 (8.00 a.m. CET, before trading
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Changes at the top of KBC
Group
Subject to the approval of the Annual
General Meeting of Shareholders on 6 May 2021, KBC Group will
reshuffle its Executive Committee:
- Rik Scheerlinck, KBC Group CFO, who reached
the statutory age limit in January 2021, will retire after a career
of 37 years with KBC.
- Luc Popelier, the current CEO of the International
Markets Business Unit, will succeed Rik Scheerlinck as CFO
and Executive Director of KBC Group. Luc will also oversee Markets
and KBC Securities.
- On the recommendation of the KBC Group Nomination Committee,
the Board of Directors has appointed Peter Andronov, the
current CEO of UBB and Country CEO for Bulgaria, to the
Executive Committee and successor to Luc Popelier as CEO of the
International Markets Business Unit. Peter will also oversee KBC
Asset Management.
- The active career at KBC of Daniel Falque, the current
CEO of the Belgium Business Unit, will end on 6 May 2021.
Daniel has now decided to pursue other interests in the future
after having spent 12 years at KBC as CEO of CBC Banque (2009-2012)
and CEO of the KBC Belgium Business Unit and member of the
Executive Committee of KBC Group (2012-present).
- On the recommendation of the KBC Group Nomination Committee,
the Board of Directors has appointed David Moucheron, the
current CEO of K&H Bank & Insurance and Country CEO for
Hungary, to the KBC Group Executive Committee and
successor to Daniel Falque as CEO of the Belgium Business Unit.
- The appointments of Luc Popelier, Peter Andronov and David
Moucheron have all been approved by the European Central Bank and
National Bank of Belgium.
- David Moucheron will be succeeded as CEO of
K&H Bank & Insurance and Country CEO for Hungary by
Guy Libot, the current
Senior General Manager of Group Finance at KBC
Group, subject to the approval of the
Hungarian regulator.
- Peter Andronov will be succeeded as CEO of UBB
and Country CEO for Bulgaria by Peter Roebben,
the current CEO of KBC Bank Ireland, subject to
the approval of the Bulgarian regulator.
- Peter Roebben will be succeeded as CEO of KBC
Bank Ireland by Ales Blazek, the current Head of Data and
Strategy at ČSOB in the Czech
Republic Business Unit of KBC Group, subject to approval
of the Irish regulator.
Koenraad
Debackere, Chairman of the Board of Directors of KBC
Group, commented as follows on the appointments
and changes announced today: ‘On behalf of the Board of
Directors, I would like to sincerely thank Rik Scheerlinck for his
tireless commitment to our group in his different roles and at
various entities in Belgium and abroad, as well as for all his
efforts in building and nurturing the strong relationships with the
investor and financial analyst community in more recent years. We
are convinced that Luc Popelier, who was the group’s CFO between
2011 and 2017 and who has built up extensive international
experience, will be a solid successor to Rik. We have no doubt that
Peter Andronov and David Moucheron will likewise be major assets to
the Executive Committee. We are convinced they are the right people
to continue the successful development of our business in the
International Markets Business Unit and Belgium Business Unit in
these challenging times. We can assure our customers, staff,
shareholders and all other stakeholders that our company is in good
hands. The Executive Committee has all the knowledge and talent it
needs to confidently address the many changes the financial
industry is going through and to deal astutely and correctly with
the many challenges facing our group.The Board of Directors also
wishes to express its deep appreciation to Daniel Falque who, with
unconditional dedication to the group, has successfully led the
growth and digital transformation of our Belgian activities in
recent years.’
Johan Thijs, KBC Group CEO
added the following: ‘I have worked closely with
Rik in the Executive Committee for several years now. My colleagues
and I are extremely grateful to him for his years of dedication in
his various roles, and for his support, unconditional commitment
and important contribution to our group’s development. Rik is an
excellent colleague, an authentic leader and a real team player,
whose dedication is widely appreciated within the group. We wish
Rik all the very best now that he will have more time for himself
and his family after an active career of 37 years.I’m also
delighted that Luc Popelier has agreed to take over from Rik as
CFO. Having experienced Luc as a top CFO between 2011 and 2017, he
is the right man to guarantee continuity for investors and
financial analysts alike.’
Johan Thijs, CEO of KBC Group also
explicitly thanked Daniel Falque: ‘We’re truly grateful to
Daniel for his efforts in helping to keep the transformation
process right on course and in implementing the pillars of KBC’s
strategy in our Belgium Business Unit. Considerable progress has
been made in all areas of transformation, especially digital
transformation. I want to thank Daniel not only for the results he
has achieved and his contribution to KBC, but also for the way he
embraced and lived the KBC values and for his dedication to our
customers and staff. I have worked with Daniel in the Executive
Committee for several years and appreciate him as a friend. My
colleagues and I wish him all the best in his future
endeavours.’
Regarding the nominations of Peter
Andronov and David Moucheron, Johan Thijs had this to say:
‘I am also delighted to welcome Peter Andronov to our Executive
Committee. Besides his many years of professional, academic and
international experience, Peter has an in-depth economic and
financial knowledge that will allow him to make a significant
contribution to the continued development of our group in our core
markets in Central Europe and Ireland. Over the past 13 years, he
has guided our business in Bulgaria through very challenging times.
He successfully managed the acquisition of UBB Bank and the
subsequent merger with CIBank, and has prepared our Bulgarian
entities for the digital transformation process. His qualities have
also been recognised by the outside world, being not only a
four-times winner of the Bulgarian Banker of the Year award, but
also receiving a Manager of the Year award, winning the Burov Prize
for Bank Management, being voted ‘Mr. Economy’ and being decorated
as an Officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium.
We are also delighted with the appointment of
David Moucheron. He is a seasoned business leader, with vast
experience as a senior manager and CEO in the financial sector,
both at KBC and in his earlier work at other financial institutions
in Belgium and abroad. Over the years, David has consistently
demonstrated he has the right combination of experience, leadership
skills and deep understanding of our business to lead our Belgium
Business Unit into the next phase of our strategy. With his
experience and deep knowledge of the local market, he will quickly
win the trust of KBC’s customers, staff, and other stakeholders
alike. He will continue to build on our efforts to strengthen KBC
and enhance our position as the reference and one of Belgium’s and
Europe’s digital frontrunners.’
Johan Thijs also congratulated Guy
Libot, Peter Roebben and Ales Blazek on their appointments
as respective CEOs of KBC Group’s Hungarian, Bulgarian and
Irish activities: ‘With Guy, Peter and Ales we have chosen
CEOs with far-reaching and extensive international experience in
the financial sector. Moreover, as customer experience, innovation
and digital transformation have become increasingly important,
Peter’s experience at KBC Bank Ireland – the Irish digital
frontrunner – and Ales’ experience as Head of Data and Strategy at
ČSOB, will prove invaluable in their new roles as CEO in Bulgaria
and Ireland in taking the digital transformation of our operations
in those countries to the next level. Guy has worked in different
parts of the world and throughout our group and is now returning to
Hungary. I truly believe that their wide-ranging experience in
complex, international and transformative business models and
in-depth knowledge of the group, the sector and new technologies
will be critical in supporting KBC’s strategy, which will be to the
benefit of all our stakeholders.’
Looking back on his collaboration with
KBC, Daniel Falque had this to say: ‘After having spent
many years in the international world of finance, I have had the
privilege of working for 12 years for one of the finest European
financial groups in my home country of Belgium. Today, KBC is a
group with a proven bank-insurance business model, a crystal-clear
(data-driven digital) strategy, solid financial fundamentals that
are second to none and a unique corporate culture of its own.
During all these years, I truly appreciated working with excellent
colleagues at all levels, driven by strong ethical standards, state
of the art technical skills and a remarkably high degree of
commitment and professionalism. All this has helped us achieve the
ambitious targets we set ourselves, year after year, and to
re-position KBC at the very top of our industry, not only in
Belgium but also in Europe. Last year, our group launched a new
strategy for the years ahead, one that will deeply transform our
industry going forward and benefit our customers and all other
stakeholders. A new era is dawning. It is why KBC and I agreed that
– after having spent 12 years in management positions at KBC – it
is now time for me to take up new and different challenges
elsewhere and to make room for the next generation. My successor
David Moucheron is without doubt the right man for the job, having
all the skills, experience and knowledge of the Belgian market that
are required to take KBC Belgium to the next level. I would like to
take the opportunity to thank the Board of Directors and my
colleagues on the Executive Committee for their confidence and
support during these incredible years. In closing, I would also
like to express my deep gratitude to the many talented and
dedicated colleagues I have had the privilege to work with over the
past 12 years, and to sincerely wish them and KBC all the very best
for the years to come. As a loyal client, I now look forward to
experiencing the results of the strategy we have designed
together!’
For more information, please
contact:
Viviane Huybrecht, General Manager, Corporate Communication/KBC
Group SpokespersonTel. + 32 2 429 85 45 E-mail
pressofficekbc@kbc.be
Editor’s note: curriculum
vitaes
Luc Popelier (born in 1964) has
a Master’s Degree in Applied Economics from UFSIA in Antwerp. After
holding various positions in corporate banking at Kredietbank (now
KBC) where he started his career in 1988, he moved to London where
he worked for Warburg Dillon Read (now UBS) between 1995 and 1999.
At the end of 1999, he returned to join KBC Securities before
becoming General Manager of KBC’s Strategy & Expansion Division
in 2002. Besides providing strategic support to the Executive
Committee, he was responsible in that role for KBC’s mergers and
acquisitions in Central and Eastern Europe, among other regions. He
was appointed General Manager of Trade Finance at KBC Bank in 2008
and then a director and member of the Executive Committee of KBC
Asset Management on 1 March 2009. On 1 September 2009, he was
appointed CEO of Market Activities (responsible for KBC Securities,
KBC Financial Products, KBC Private Equity and KBC’s dealing rooms)
in the Merchant Banking Business Unit and becale a member of the
KBC Group Executive Committee. Between 2011 and 2017, he was CFO of
KBC Group. In 2017, he became CEO of the International Markets
Business Unit of KBC Group, responsible for banking and insurance
activities in Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Ireland and for KBC’s
global asset management and investment banking activities. He is
married, with four children.
David Moucheron (born in 1973)
graduated with a Master’s Degree in Law from the Université
Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium in 1996, and
gained a Master’s Degree in Tax Law from the Fiscale
Hogeschool/EHSAL in Brussels in 1998 and a LL.M. from Columbia Law
School in New York in 2000. He began his career as an attorney at
the bar in Brussels with de Bandt, van Hecke & Lagae (now
Linklaters) and from 2000 to 2005 worked as a Management Consultant
for McKinsey&Company in Brussels. In 2006, he became Sales
Director and member of the management team of Fortis Retail Banking
and was later appointed Secretary General of the Group Executive
Committee and Chief of Staff of Fortis Group (now BNP Paribas
Fortis). He was CEO of bpost bank – a joint venture of De Post and
BNP Paribas Fortis established in 1995 – from 2009 to 2015. He
joined KBC Group and was appointed CEO of CBC Banque in Belgium on
1 December 2015. In May 2017 he was appointed CEO of K&H Bank
& Insurance and Country CEO for Hungary. In 2020, he was
elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Hungarian Banking
Association. He is married, with four children.
Peter Andronov (born in 1969)
has a Master’s Degree in Finance and Banking from the University of
National and World Economy in Sofia (UNWE). In the first part of
his career (1997-2007), he worked mostly in the Banking Supervision
Department of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), where he was
promoted to the position of Chief Director, working in that role
from January 2002 until May 2007. From 2003 until May 2007, he was
a member of the Management Board of the Reserve Guarantee Fund. He
was involved in drawing up the legislative framework on bank
supervision currently in force in Bulgaria, including the Credit
Institutions Act, the Supplementary Supervision of Financial
Conglomerates Act, the BNB’s supervisory regulations and
instructions, etc. He was also a member of the BNB’s Investment
Committee.Between 2005 and 2007, Peter was an observer and member
of the European Banking Committee (EBC) and the Committee of
European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) at the European Commission. At
the same time, he was an observer and member of the Banking
Supervision Committee (BSC) at the European Central Bank. Since
2008, Peter has also been a member of the Management Board of the
Association of Banks in Bulgaria and its representative on the
Banking Supervision Committee at the European Banking Federation.
In 2015, he was appointed Chairman of the Association and reelected
to that position in March 2018.Since 1995, he has lectured on the
‘Introduction to Finance and Banking Regulation’ at the UNWE, at
the Higher School of Insurance and Finance and at the New Bulgarian
University/International Banking Institute.In July 2007, he decided
to redirect his career path and joined CIBank as CFRO and
Management Board member. In March 2008, after KBC acquired CIBank,
he became its CEO. In March 2011, Peter was also appointed to the
post of Country CEO for Bulgaria, taking charge of all activities
in the country. After the acquisition of UBB by KBC in June 2017,
he became Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of the United
Bulgarian Bank group. He is Chairman of KBC’s Country Team for
Bulgaria, KBC’s Country Manager for Bulgaria, Chairman of the
Management Board of UBB, and CEO of UBB. He is married, with two
children.
Peter Roebben (born in 1966)
graduated from the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1989 with a
Master’s Degree in Law and went on to gain an MBA from Vlerick
Business School (Belgium) in 1990. He started his career in 1991
with Kredietbank (now KBC) working as an account officer in
Corporate Banking in London. From 1994 until 1998, he was Director
of the Iberia Representative Office in Madrid. After a year in
Brussels at the Group’s Multinationals Division, he became General
Manager of Corporate Banking in the Paris Branch in 1999. From 2005
until 2010, he was Executive Director of Corporate Banking at ČSOB
Bank in the Czech Republic. Between 2010 and 2017, he served as
Senior Managing Director and sat on the Executive Committee of
K&H Bank & Insurance in Hungary, with responsibility for
Credit Management and Human Resources, and later for the Business
Banking Division, comprising Corporate & SME Banking, Financial
Markets, Leasing and Factoring. During his tenure, he also
supervised the Corporate Change & Organisation activities
focusing on enterprise business architecture, operational
excellence and leadership development. In 2017, he was appointed
Senior General Manager for Group Credit Risk at KBC’s Head Office
in Brussels. Since 2019, he has been the CEO of KBC Bank Ireland.
Peter is married, with two children.
Guy Libot (born in 1963)
graduated from UFSIA (Belgium) in 1985 with a Master’s Degree in
Applied Economics. In 1988, he gained a Master’s Degree in
Commercial Engineering again from UFSIA. He started his career at
KBC (Kredietbank) in September 1987 and became head of the
representative office in Los Angeles (USA) in 1990. He then headed
up the network desk in Rotterdam (Netherlands) in 1992 before
becoming branch manager of KBC Bank in Singapore in 1995. In June
2000, he was appointed CEO of KBC Bank Netherlands, before becoming
Deputy CEO of KBC’s Polish subsidiary, Kredyt Bank from 2003 until
2006 and Deputy CEO of K&H Bank in Hungary from June 2006 until
September 2010. He then took up the post of General Manager of the
Central Europe Banking Directorate at KBC’s Head Office in Brussels
and was promoted to Senior General Manager in May 2011. From
December 2013 until September 2017, he was Chief Audit Executive at
KBC Group. In 2017, he moved on to become Senior General Manager of
Shared Services & Operations at KBC Group. Since June 2019, he
has been responsible for the Group Finance department. He is
married, with two children.
Ales Blazek (born in
1972). After graduating with a Master’s Degree in
Law at the Charles University Law School in Prague in 1997, Ales
started his professional career as an associate at the Prague
Office of White & Case, working primarily in the areas of
M&A, Banking & Finance and Restructuring.From 2000 until
2003, he worked as Chief Legal Counsel for Citibank Czech Republic
covering the corporate and consumer banking businesses there. In
2002, he became General Counsel for Citigroup CEE Region covering
corporate and investment banking businesses in Central and Eastern
Europe. In 2003, he was appointed Deputy General Counsel for
Citigroup EMEA, Corporate and Investment Banking in London,
covering corporate and investment banking businesses in Europe, the
Middle East and Africa. In 2007, he joined GE Capital Global
Banking in London to become a member of the senior executive team
in the capacity as General Counsel for GE Capital consumer
businesses in Europe. In 2011, he was promoted and became General
Counsel for GE Capital International, London, with responsibility
for legal services in all GE Capital businesses in Europe, the
Middle East and Asia, and becoming a member of the senior executive
team.He joined ČSOB in Prague in the Czech Republic Business Unit
of KBC Group in 2014 as Head of the Legal Department, responsible
for legal and regulatory services and corporate governance. Since
April 2019, he has been Head of Data and Strategy at ČSOB. In this
capacity he has been responsible for preparing and reviewing
strategy for the ČSOB Group and for managing its data
infrastructure, data analytics unit and the unit responsible for
KYC, AML and fraud prevention in digital channels. He is married,
with five children.
CVs and photographs of the members of
the KBC Group Executive Committee can be found in the
Corporate Governance section of
www.kbc.com. If you would like a
photograph, please e-mail the KBC Group Press Office at
pressofficekbc@kbc.be.
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