On September 1, 2004 Pierre Guillemet will join Calyon

On September 1, 2004 Pierre Guillemet will join Calyon, the Crédit Agricole group's corporate and investment bank. He will take responsibility for banking information and processing systems, and will become a member of Calyon's Management Committee. Previously, Guillemet was the chief executive officer of Euro Securities Partners SAS, a joint BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole subsidiary, which is responsible for the ownership and management of the account-maintenance platform used for the two banks' retail and private banking activities.

Pierre Guillemet, 46, is a graduate of Ecole Centrale Paris and began his career in 1981 as an IT project manager at CIC Paris. In 1986, he joined SCT Brunoy, a Crédit Agricole subsidiary specializing in account-maintenance, back office and IT services, where he occupied, in turn, the positions of head of the IT department (1987-1993), general manager in charge of IT and operations (1993-2000) and deputy chief executive (2000-2003).