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
Financial Services Roundtable services companies with additional C-Suite level executive representatives from each company. The current President and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable is Tim Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota. In 1993, the Bankers Roundtable was formed because the 81-year-old Association of Reserve City Bankers and the 35-year-old Association of Registered Bank Holding Companies merged. In 2000, after a decision by the Board of Directors the previous year to "broaden the mission to represent integrated financial service providers...the Roundtable's impact as a major player on Capitol Hill and with the regulators", the name was changed to The Financial Services Roundtable. Since