Coface announced the following appointments within its executive committee: Antonio Marchitelli, currently CEO of Coface Western Europe Region, is appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Global Specialties, effective January 2022. In this newly created role, Antonio will drive Coface’s growth strategy in three key specialty product lines, i.e. Single Risk, Bonding and Debt Collection. He will design and roll out a global roadmap to accelerate growth and build Coface’s operational capability to develop these product lines. Carine Pichon, currently chief financial and risks officer, will replace Antonio as CEO of Coface Western Europe Region. Carine has been running finance and risks globally since 2011. Her appointment recognizes her long-standing contribution to Coface’s transformation and in particular to the Fit to Win and Build to Lead strategic plans as well as Coface’s IPO. Lastly, after several months as acting in this role, Coface is happy to confirm Jaroslaw Jaworski in the role of Chief Executive Officer of Coface Central and Eastern Europe Region, effective today. Jaroslaw was previously Poland Country manager since 2012. He successfully positioned Coface as a leading player in this important market. Antonio Marchitelli began his career as a business consultant at Accenture. Specialised initially in business process re-engineering, his career evolved in the late 1990s towards strategic functions, working on the transformation of bank-insurance companies. In 2003 he joined the Axa Group, where he occupied various positions in the Mediterranean and Latin American regions, in charge of implementing growth and profitability strategies, mainly in emerging markets. In 2013, he joined Coface as CEO Mediterranean & Africa Region. He is appointed CEO of the Western Europe Region in 2017 then CEO, Global Specialties in 2021. Carine Pichon began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where she headed audit assignments in the insurance sector. She joined Coface Group in 2001 as head of consolidation. After serving as Chief Financial Officer for Coface in France, she became Chief Financial Officer for Coface Group in 2011. The Group Risk Department has been reporting to her since 2015. In 2021, she is appointed Director of Coface for the Western Europe region. Jaroslaw Jaworski started his career in the banking sector in 1992. In 1999, he is appointed commercial director of Pekao Faktoring (UniCredit Group). He joined Coface in 2006 as Managing Director of Coface Poland Factoring before becoming Coface Country Manager for Poland supervising all the activities in the country. In 2021, he is appointed CEO of Coface Central and Eastern Europe Region.