Richard Bruyère, Managing Director
Richard is Managing Director of Image & Finance since end 2008. He is in charge of client relationship management and oversees market surveys and consulting projects.
Richard is also a partner of Finance Concepts, a boutique offering consulting and training services in quantitative finance, model validation and risk management to financial institutions, hedge funds and service providers. He has also founded and acts as Managing Director of INDEFI, a strategic and financial advisory company focused on infrastructure and private equity markets.
Prior to this, Richard was partner and co-founder of Advention Business Partners, a strategy consulting company where he ran the Infrastructure & Energy and Financial Services practices.
After graduating from HEC, he helped launch the credit derivatives business at Société Générale before joining Credit Suisse First Boston (London), where he developed the structured credit business
He is the author of the book Les produits dérivés de crédit , the first publication on this subject in French which was awarded several times. An English version of the book, Credit Derivatives and Structured Credit has been published by Wiley in 2005. Richard teaches finance and capital markets at HEC (France's premier business school) and at the University Paris-VI in the Master (DEA) "Probabilité et Finance" and at University Paris X Nanterre.
Jean-Claude Leconte, Founder and Managing Director
Jean-Claude has spent most of his career in the financial industry working for banks (Crédit Lyonnais, Sovac-Groupe Lazard), real estate (Immobilière Construction de Paris) and insurance companies (UAP)
Jean Claude founded Image & Finance in 1985.
He is a graduate of IEP de Paris, where he was “Maitre de conference”, and a holds a Master in economics. |
