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Michel Yarhi is the former head of the insurance risk management at Société Générale where he served for 31 years. In his role at Société Générale Michel transformed the insurance management of the group into a profit center. His activities included all insurance risk management and the purchase of coverage as well as being involved in auditing the insurance arrangement of major French industrial clients and being the Chairman of its internal brokerage unit. In addition Michel served as Vice-President of a reinsurance company.

Michel joined Société Générale after a Junior Doctorate in Law and a first career at two insurance companies eventually being responsible during 2 years for a claims department.

Michel is the former President of AMRAE (the French Risk Management Association with 350 companies and over 600 individuals as members).

Michel also serves as Chief Executive of CEFAREA (French Arbitration Centre Reinsurance and Insurance) and is the former Chairman of EFIRM (European Financial Institutions’ Risk Managers, regrouping 18 of the largest European banks).

Antoine graduated from Reims Management School, and completed a further degree in International Business at Northeastern University, USA. After working with an international M&A advisory firm, Antoine joined Mactavish in 2005. He now leads our activity in the French market whilst maintaining involvement throughout all our research. He is a regular columnist in French risk and insurance publications.

Patrick graduated from the ESSCA Business School in France, with a First Class Honours degree, including an exchange year in the MBA programme at McGill University (Canada). Following some auditing projects in banking, he then started his commercial career in import and export, before joining Arc International, world leader in tableware and domestic glassware, as National Account Manager. From there, he took responsibility of the UK premium products division and subsequently general management of the mass market product lines.

Patrick finally became Sales Director in a nutrition and supplements company, before joining Mactavish in 2007 to focus on both UK and French markets.

Patrick is a French national and speaks fluent English.

Jérome is a corporate finance advisor working in risk and capital management for financial institutions. His experience combines insurance and reinsurance, treasury, corporate finance, risk management and M&A advisory. Jérome first gained insurance experience working for seven years at AIG in both the US and in Europe. After AIG he worked for six years at Morgan Stanley, in the securities division with a focus on complex trading strategies, hedging in the context of M&A transactions and heading the Debt Optimisation Advisory team. He then worked for two years at Chase-JP Morgan in M&A and corporate finance with a regional origination responsibility, followed by two years at Swiss Re (Managing Director, Head of the UK Insurance Practice, Risk Solutions, including responsibility for key global insurance clients).

Jérome serves on the Board for Actuarial Standards of the Financial Reporting Council, the UK’s independent regulator for corporate reporting and governance and on the International Committee of the Insurance Institute of London. Jérome holds a MS in Economics at Paris-Nanterre University followed by two years of econometric modelling work and a MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business.

Benoit holds an MBA from Cardiff Business School and an MSc in Management from Grenoble Ecole de Management in France. A member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, he has developed an expertise in Supply Chain management, Purchasing and International Business. Before joining the Mactavish team, he worked in France in international business development within the orthopedic and neurosurgery industry and also has a experience of strategy consulting in the UK with PA Consulting. Benoit is a French national and speaks fluent English and Spanish.