Olivier Leymarie

Mr. Olivier Leymarie is a Chief Executive Officer & Portfolio Manager at Syquant Capital SAS. Prior to his experience in equity derivatives, he spent two years as management consultant at Ernst&Young.
In 1990 he joined Paris based brokerage firm Cheuvreux de Virieu (acquired by Indosuez in 1992 and merged into the Credit Agricole group in 1997).
As from 1996 he was appointed Head of European Equity derivatives and was appointed Global Head of Equity Derivatives in 2000.
In 2004, following the merger of Credit Agricole and Credit Lyonnais, he became Deputy Head of Equity Derivatives in CALYON, a subsidiary of Credit Agricole S.A. specialising in corporate and investment banking.
At that time, he was in charge of 250 people based in 5 different locations; London, Paris, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
In 2005 Olivier Leymarie co-founds with Henri Jeantet Syquant Capital.
He is a former member of the board of Credit Agricole Indosuez Cheuvreux, of Credit Agricole Indosuez Derivatives Products (CAIDP); and of the supervisory Board of Equity Alternative Asset Management (EQUALT), the alternative asset management subsidiary of Credit Agricole Indosuez.
Mr. Leymarie holds an Engineering degree (1987) from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon.