Cyrille Charbonnel is appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Coface Group

Cyrille Charbonnel, Group Organisation Director and a member of the General Management Committee of the Coface Group, is appointed Group Chief Operating Officer, a newly created position.

In this role, he will manage the operational functions of the Group together with Jean-Marc Pillu, Chief Executive Officer, and more specifically the Commercial, Underwriting, Information, Claims & Collection functions. He retains his responsibilities as Group Organisation Director. 

Cyrille Charbonnel, 47 years old, graduated from the ISC business school in Paris, started his career in the Underwriting Department at Euler Hermes SFAC were he was responsible for the metallurgical industry sector. He then joined the Commercial Department which he ran for 4 years. In 2008, he became an Executive Board Member of the Portuguese credit insurer Cosec. In exercising his duties he was entrusted with the responsibility of various missions in the field of organisation relating to the implementation and the roll out of different department tools. He joined Coface in September 2011.