About Marc-Henri Desportes

Marc-Henri Desportes attention and expertise have been focused over the last twenty years on business and social transformation through digital technologies, which he believes have only started to disrupt the business world as we used to know it. He is now Deputy CEO at Worldline, a global technology company at the forefront of the digital revolution that is shaping new ways of paying, living, doing business and building relationships. He is a manager passionate about leading transformation of companies or teams towards new levels of efficiency, technology, product innovation and international developments both organically and inorganically. With Worldline teams, they are the core of the digital and payments revolution. They all share one ambition: act every day to provide their clients with sustainable, trusted and secure solutions across the payment value chain, fostering their business growth wherever they are. What does he love most about his job? That even on a tough day, he can be confident that their work enables sustainable economic growth and reinforces trust and security in their societies. Since 2024, Marc-Henri Desportes is managing the Merchant Services Global Business Line. After being General Manager in 2013, he has been appointed in 2018 as Deputy CEO of Worldline to lead all its business lines and operations with an ambition to act every day to provide Worldline’s clients with sustainable. Marc-Henri is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and of the Ecole des Mines de Paris. He began his career at the French Ministry of Finances from 2000 to 2005, and joined the BNP Paribas group, in charge of audit coordination from 2005 to 2006, and became Chief Information Officer at BNL, BNP Paribas’ Italian subsidiary. In 2009, he joined the Atos group as an ExCom Member and Director of the Global Innovation Business Development & Strategy Global Business Lines, then, Director of the High Technology Settlement Services and Specialized Activities Business Unit in July 2011.