New Chairman appointed to KBC Bank Ireland
18 August 2011
New Chairman appointed to KBC Bank Ireland
KBC Group, the parent group of KBC Bank Ireland, has appointed Luc Gijsens as Chairman of KBC Bank Ireland, succeeding Luc Philips who retired from the KBC Group as of April 30, 2011
Mr. Gijsens is a member of the KBC Group Executive Committee and the CEO of Merchant Banking Business Unit, KBC Group.
Originally from Belgium, Mr. Gijsens has 34 years experience in investment and corporate banking. Between 1981 and 1988, he was assigned to the International Network (Hong Kong, Bahrain, New York), returning to Belgium in 1988 to take up a position in the corporate division, where he ultimately took charge of the Antwerp Corporate Office as General Manager in 1994. He was appointed Senior General Manager of the Investment Banking Directorate in 2000 and then Senior General Manager of the Corporate and Institutional Banking Directorate in 2003.
Mr. Gijsens has been a member of the Merchant Banking Management Committee in KBC Group since 2006 and was appointed to the KBC Group Executive Committee as CEO of Merchant Banking Business Unit, KBC Group in May 2011.
KBC Bank Ireland has been operating in Ireland for over 35 years and has been a member of the KBC Group since 1978. It is one of the leading providers of financial services in Ireland and employs 500 people in Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Belfast and Galway.
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