Bruno Prigent, currently Deputy Head of Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), is to become Head of the organisation from 30 September 2011.

He will join the Executive Committee of the Private Banking, Global Investment Management and Services division as well as the General Management Committee of Societe Generale Group. Prigent will report to Jacques Ripoll, Head of this division.

Prigent replaces Alain Closier who, after 34 years at Societe Generale Group, including 12 years as a member of the Group’s General Management Committee, has decided to give a new direction to his career and will leave the Group next October.