People: BNP Paribas SA (BNPQY.PK)

Mr. Yann Gerardin has been Head of Global Equities and Commodity Derivatives and Member of the Executive Committee of BNP Paribas SA since December 1, 2011. Mr. Gerardin joined BNP in 1987 to create the equity derivatives business, and was appointed global Head of Equity Derivatives for the newly created BNP Paribas in 1999. At the beginning of 2005, he took over responsibility for the entire BNP Paribas Equities & Derivatives division, to which the Commodity Derivatives activity was added later that year. Mr. Gerardin is graduated from the Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) business school in Political Science and in Econometrics.