Independent director
Gilles Grapinet, born in 1963, joined the Inspectorate General of Finance in 1992 after graduating from École nationale d’administration (ENA). In 1996 he joined the General Tax Directorate (DGI) where, after heading the management control and transformation department, he was appointed Director of Information Systems and Strategy, responsible in particular for France’s Copernic program (digital transformation of tax administration and overhaul of the DGI’s information and payment systems). From 2003 to the end of 2004, he was economic and financial advisor to the Prime Minister, before going on to serve as Chief of Staff to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry from 2005 to May 2007. In September 2007 he joined the Executive Committee of the international banking group Crédit Agricole SA, first as director of strategy and then as head of payment systems and services.
In 2008 he joined the international IT services group Atos where he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President in charge of global functions, global sales and consulting. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Worldline from 2013 to 2024 and oversaw the successful partial listing of this Atos group subsidiary in June 2014 when it had a market capitalization of approximately 2 billion euros. Since then, Worldline has undergone an ambitious expansion, acquiring Equens in 2016, SIX Payment Services in 2018 and Ingenico in 2020. Worldline, which became completely independent of Atos on May 3, 2019, has established itself as one of the leading electronic payment services companies in Europe and was part of the CAC40 index until 2024.
Until June 2022, Gilles Grapinet was also the first Chairman and founding member of the European Digital Payments Industry Alliance (EDPIA), the body that represents the main payment services companies in Europe. He chaired the Supervisory Board of Younited, an ACPR-approved “fintech” banking institution specializing in digital consumer credit, until its sale to Iris Financials in December 2024. He currently serves on it as an independent director.
Gilles Grapinet is France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. He is a French national.
