Tidjane Thiam Tidjane Thiam Tidjane Thiam (; born 29 July 1962) is a French-Ivorian banker and philanthropist who has served as the chief executive officer of Swiss bank Credit Suisse since March 2015. Previous to assuming the post, Thiam was the chief financial officer of British banking group Prudential from 2007 to 2009 before serving as its chief executive until 2013. Born into a prominent political family in the Ivory Coast, he holds dual Ivorian and French citizenship. He studied advanced mathematics and physics in France before joining the management consultants McKinsey & Company in 1986, where he worked until 1994. From
First National Financial Corporation administration. By the end of that year, First National had a total of $99.4 billion in mortgages under administration. In October 2017, First National Financial Corporation announced it had reached $100 billion in mortgages under administration. On October 1, 2015, Queen’s University’s School of Business changed its name to The Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business in honour of the $50 million donation made by Stephen Smith, Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of First National Financial Corporation. On November 16, 2018 The Canadian Business Hall of Fame announced the chairman and CEO of First National Financial LP, Stephen Smith, as its