Natixis names Gregoire Bielle as APAC head of private credit sales

Bielle will be responsible for the bank’s private credit sales team in APAC.

Natixis has appointed Gregoire Bielle as head of private credit sales, APAC.

Bielle will be responsible for Natixis CIB’s private credit sales team, Asia Pacific, for the distribution of loans and private debt to non-bank financial institutions in collaboration with global markets sales and credit structuring teams in order to develop new structures such as mezzanine debt, the bank said in a press announcement.

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Bielle is based in Singapore and reports to Arnaud Francillon, head of distribution & portfolio management, Asia Pacific; Eric Elbaz, head of sales and financial engineering, Asia Pacific; and Victoria Goodenough, global head of private credit sales. Locally, Bielle reports to Sanjeev Kumar.

He has over 14 years’ experience from financial institutions in both London and Singapore. Prior to joining Natixis CIB, he was with Standard Chartered where he held several positions in the private debt and structured credit spheres.