VACHERON Pierre-Antoine

Pierre-Antoine Vacheron brings 30 years of extensive international and transformational experience as CEO and CFO within the banking, retail and payments industries.

Pierre-Antoine joins Worldline from BPCE Payments, the payments arm of Groupe BPCE, Europe's fifth-largest retail bank, where he has served as CEO since 2018, making Payments a strategic business for the entire banking group.

Over his tenure, Pierre-Antoine Vacheron leveraged his focus on product innovation, technology and customer excellence to shape a highly competitive and modern payments player in card and account-to-account processing (BPCE Payments services), omnichannel commerce (Payplug) and bank as a service (Xpollens).

Before BPCE, Pierre-Antoine Vacheron headed the Merchant Services and Acquiring division of Ingenico Group globally. During this period (2009-2017), he notably oversaw the company's diversification, contributing to transforming Ingenico, then hardware oriented, into a leading payment services provider, with the strategic acquisitions of Ogone and Global Collect.

After graduating from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Pierre-Antoine Vacheron held financial leadership roles in international and listed companies, across technological (Airbus, Alstom) and retail (Etam) industries, demonstrating his breadth of expertise in finance, operations and technology.