Societe Generale Appoints Christophe Tummers as Group CDO

(EMEA) French financial services firm Societe Generale has appointed Christophe Tummers as Group Chief Data Officer. Tummers will report to Group Chief Operating Officer Laura Mather and will be responsible for the Global Data Office.

Tummers is a seasoned data professional with close to 30 years of experience in the financial industry. He joins Societe Generale from UBS, where he was a Managing Director and most recently held the positions of Group Chief Data Officer (Group CDO) and then CDO for ESG.

He established the group CDO function and the group data management office at UBS and led the remediation of the firm's data architecture, governance, and quality. He also held various senior roles in operations and technology.

As a long-standing board member of the EDM Council, Tummers contributed to the best-practice data management standards for the financial industry. He has a computer engineering degree and a passion for data excellence. Tummers is a dual citizen of Switzerland and Belgium and has lived and worked in multiple global cities, such as New York, Zurich, Singapore, and London.