The banking group has created a number of new roles based out of its Dubai centre, including a role for dealing with family offices.

French banking group Societe Generale has created four new positions in its Dubai hub, covering the sovereign client base, family offices, and global markets sales.

Amine Jaoui, head of public sector coverage. Jaoui will focus on sovereign clients and public authorities across the Middle East and in Egypt. This role comes in the wake of the establishment of a new global coverage team dedicated to public sector clients, strengthening the bank’s coverage of governments, central banks, sovereign funds, development banks, regional public authorities and multinational entities.

Damien Pierron, head of family offices and holdings’ coverage. Pierron will provide investment banking services to a selected group of family offices, holdings and their subsidiaries. He will also be in charge of the coverage of family offices in Russia, where Societe Generale owns Rosbank, the third largest non-public bank of the country, therefore also exploiting that corridor with the Middle East.

Rishmein Vallimamode, corporate derivatives sales specialist. Vallimamode will focus on corporate clients in the region, building a corporate desk in customised FX and rates products and solutions.

Wassim Kesrouani, fixed income and currencies sales specialist. Kesrouani will focus on developing the foreign exchange (FX) business with financial institutions in the Middle East. They all report regionally to Richad Soundardjee, chief executive, Societe Generale Middle East and functionally to respective business global heads.

Amine Jaoui has been head of public sector coverage for the Middle East since September 2017. Previously, he was head of business development, a role he will continue to play.

Prior to joining Societe Generale in 2015, he spent a year as a Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Damien Pierron has been head of family offices and holdings’ coverage for Middle East since February. He was previously in charge of the family offices private banking platform at Societe Generale in Geneva, a position he held since 2014.

Vallimamode joins the Middle East office from the FX team in London, where he developed the FX sales activity for central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and multinational entities, and coordinated a portfolio of sovereign counterparties globally.

Kesrouani joined Societe Generale in January. He previously worked at Barclays Investment Bank in London, where he was a part of the EMEA macro sales team covering MENA financial and sovereign institutions.