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An influential international business leader and board chair commanding over three decades of success gained integrating US and European financial institutions with global markets. Committed to forging productive relationships across borders and cultures, drawing on cultural sensitivity to negotiate cross border mergers and acquisitions. Recognized as a global citizen, with broad experience in identifying the need for outside growth, selecting proper acquisitions and navigating associated risks with integrating operations and processes while retaining talent. Demonstrates expertise in handling regulators across major financial hubs and negotiates complex governance structures within strongly regulated environments with ease. Above all, invested in uniting globally dispersed individuals behind change to launch businesses into their futures. Now, seeking a Board Directorship within the international finance sphere, providing actionable advice to enhance corporate cohesion across borders and cultures. Co-founded Lexington Global Distribution Partners in August 2018 to represent US and non US managers and their flagship strategies for their business expansion globally.Patrick Pagni was Amundi’s Senior Regional Officer for North America from 2010 to June 2017 and Executive Chairman of Amundi Smith Breeden, its Durham based subsidiary, from September 2013 to June 2017. He is a seasoned expert in acquisitions and post-merger reorganizations who joined Amundi in 2010. In the previous 8 years, he was Executive Vice President at Trust Company of the West, Société Générale Asset Management subsidiary in the United States.Prior to joining SGAM, Patrick Pagni worked for 6 years as Société Générale’s (SG) country head for the United Kingdom where he instrumented the acquisition of Hambros Bank.Besides a Maitrise en Sciences de Gestion from Université Paris Dauphine, Patrick Pagni holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is the Chairman of the French American Cultural Exchange Foundation, a US-based non profit organization fostering cultural exchanges between France and the United States of America.He is also a passionate wildlife photographer who spends a few weeks every year north of the border in pursuit of polar bears.

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