The Alta Group Enhances French Base – François-Xavier Meurville Joins EMEA Team
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London – 19 October 2009
Hot on the heels of establishing a German base, The Alta Group, the premier global asset finance and equipment leasing consultancy, has strengthened its French office and appointed François-Xavier Meurville as an Associate in its EMEA Region. Based in Paris, François-Xavier is a senior banker and an innovative professional with more than 25 years’ leasing and corporate banking experience across four continents. He has the skills to drive business growth, capitalise on new revenue potential and manage all aspects of daily business operations and thrives in both independent and team environments.
François-Xavier has worked internationally in a variety of senior management roles. Whilst at Locafrance International, he founded Afribail-CI in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and, later, based in New York, he worked closely on vendor programmes with several machine tool manufacturers.
He was Managing Director of BLS Leasing, a joint venture between Calyon, Tokai Bank and Bapindo, and based in Indonesia and then moved to Calyon’s affiliate bank in Saudi Arabia, where he was in charge of the financing of Aramco and the oil-related industry.
More recently at Groupe Crédit Agricole, François-Xavier’s achievements include playing a major role in expanding CA’s Polish leasing affiliate’s capabilities from car financing to global equipment financing and achieving full integration of the company in the group. He also created the International Department, generating 35 per cent of CA Leasing’s net banking income, compared with 1 per cent on his arrival.
Malcolm Ogle, Chairman of Alta’s EMEA Region, said: “We are delighted to welcome someone of François-Xavier’s calibre to our fast-expanding team and, once again, have a Frenchman representing us in France. François-Xavier has considerable international experience and provides Alta with additional complementary skills that further enhance Alta’s portfolio of capabilities” (*)
François-Xavier Meurville commented: “I am looking forward to a range of new challenges and am very enthusiastic about being part of Alta with its reputation for creative thinking and finding the best solution for their clients.”
(*) Alun Richards was latterly Alta’s representative in France but has now left the consultancy.
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ABOUT THE ALTA GROUP
The Alta Group has built an unrivalled reputation as a global provider of equipment leasing and asset finance advisory and consulting services to many of the world’s leading lessors and asset finance companies - whether bank owned, captive or independent – as well as to equipment manufacturers and vendors and other clients. The Alta Group’s professionals are all highly experienced, senior executives with decades of experience across the equipment leasing and asset finance spectrum.
For more information, please visit www.thealtagroup.com/emea
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malcolmogle@thealtagroup.eu.com
