Appointment Emmanuel Gendreau appointed Director of BNP Paribas Epargne & Retraite Entreprises.
Emmanuel Gendreau has been appointed Director of BNP Paribas Epargne & Retraite Entreprises, effective from 5 January 2026. He succeeds Nicolas Villet, who has been appointed Director of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region at BNP Paribas Cardif. Emmanuel Gendreau joins the executive committee of BNP Paribas Cardif France and will report to Charlotte Chevalier, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas Cardif Head of France and Luxembourg.
BNP Paribas Epargne & Retraite Entreprises is the entity specialising in corporate savings solutions (employee savings and collective retirement savings), co-managed by
BNP Paribas Asset Management for financial management, and BNP Paribas Cardif for insurance activities. At the end of 2024, the company managed
€30.2 billion in assets for 26,000 businesses and for 1.6 million savers.
Emmanuel Gendreau joined the
BNP Paribas Group in 1998. After holding various positions, notably in mergers and acquisitions within BNP Paribas Group Financial Management department, he became Managing Director at Financial Institutions Coverage at BNP Paribas CIB in 2005. He covered major French insurers as a Senior Banker and was appointed Global Head of Insurance in 2015. In 2021, he joined the Investment & Protection Services (IPS) division, responsible for Institutional Partnerships and the restructuring project of the division’s private assets activities. Following this restructuring, he was appointed Head of IPS Investments in 2023.
Emmanuel holds a master’s degree in management from ESCP Europe and a
Master 1 in Applied Mathematics from Université Paris IX Dauphine.
