Ostrum Asset Management (Ostrum AM), an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has appointed Gaëlle Théaud-Gautheron (pictured) as chief operating officer, assuming her role on 1 July, 2024.
Member of Ostrum AM’s executive committee and reporting directly to Olivier Houix, CEO, Gaëlle Théaud-Gautheron, as chief operating officer, will be tasked with optimizing the organization and efficiency of key processes supporting Ostrum AM’s asset management activities and client service.
She will also ensure coordination with Natixis Investment Managers teams, as well as all external service providers, and will support commercial and contractual relationships. Finally, she will coordinate Ostrum AM’s transformation initiatives.
Olivier Houix, CEO of Ostrum AM, said: “We are delighted to welcome Gaëlle to Ostrum AM, whose extensive experience in global transformation management will be a valuable asset for Ostrum AM in supporting our development ambitions. Her knowledge of Groupe BPCE and her consulting expertise made her the ideal candidate to optimize and streamline the relationship between Ostrum AM’s teams and our providers within the Group, as well as externally.”
Gaëlle Théaud-Gautheron has over 20 years of expertise in the financial sector: after starting her career in 2000 at consulting firm Bearing Point as a consultant and then manager in the “financial services” practice, she joined Société Générale CIB in 2005; she worked there until 2019, within the Chief Operating Office, and then as the global head of market operations.
She left Société Générale CIB to found Théa Conseil, a consulting firm specializing in business consulting and change management.
In 2021, Gaëlle joined the BPCE Group as Co-Head of Organization and Transformation, and then as Managing Partner – Transformation Management Office at Natixis Global Financial Services.
