Peggy VENIANT-COTTIN

Peggy VENIANT-COTTIN

Deputy CEO in charge of Resources

Societe Generale Luxembourg

After a first work experience in CACIB, Peggy joined Societe Generale in 2004. She occupied various positions as a back and middle office manager for the Exotic Stock Derivatives activities.

In 2011, she became the worldwide Manager of the middle office teams in charge of structured products, as well as the fees team. In 2013, she became the worldwide Manager of the middle office teams in charge of exotic products, stock derivatives and fixed income. During that time, she obtained the certification ISO 9001 for the EMTN and Warrant chains, making SC CIB the first investment bank to receive the certification.

In 2017, she is appointed as worldwide Manager of middle offices and client support for the Financial Market Management (MARK). She contributed to the Agile@Scale transformation by defining the framework for each class of asset. She conducted a review of the organization for each function, which aimed at reaching a worldwide convergence of the processes, whilst also interacting constantly with the business, the internal partners, and the regulators. When the entity in charge of IT and Operations for the Equity Cash and Derivatives activities (GBSU/EQD) was created in 2019, Peggy was appointed as worldwide Manager of operations and the Exotic and Flows IT systems. She contributed to the implementation of SMEs, which eased the collaboration between IT teams, operational teams, and the business.

During her career, Peggy tackled numerous projects of IT transformation and optimization (Six Sigma, Exo One project of automatization of the structured product chain FO-BO, decommissioning of OFE Montage etc), either as project manager or as sponsor. 

Peggy has 20 years of experience in the management of worldwide teams and developed her expertise in organization transformation, sponsorship of strategic projects and management. She holds a Diplôme d’études supérieure spécialisées (DESS), delivered by the Université Clermont-Auvergne, in market finance.