About Olivier Guillaumond

Olivier Guillaumond, after 10 years at Accenture, co-founded and managed Smile in the Benelux region, which has grown to become Europe’s leading Open Source integrator with over 1,000 people and €100 million in turnover. He then joined ING Group, initially as Global Head of Regulatory Change, followed by Head of Fintechs and Labs. In these roles, he and his teams combine two passions: engaging with leading fintechs in the financial ecosystem and collaborating with talented corporate venture builders to create impactful businesses for ING and its clients. Beyond innovation, he is deeply passionate about science, with a particular interest in astrophysics. He is committed to shaping the future of banking together with innovative minds. No, Olivier Guillaumond is not a descendant of Huguenots who – in search of religious freedom – emigrated to the Netherlands after the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Guillaumond is originally a true Frenchman, a Lyonnais. Although his Dutch is now quite reasonable, the conversation with presenter Jeroen Broekema takes place in English. It is remarkable that Guillaumond also speaks excellent German, a language that his parents considered more important than English during his school days.  At the end of his studies at the École Centrale de Marseille – comparable to a technical university in the Netherlands – he came into contact with Andersen Consulting, a company that would later become Accenture, through a business pitch. Olivier Guillaumond worked there for more than ten years in advisory roles for the financial sector. As such, he also came into contact with his current employer ING .