Stéphane Blanchoz is Client Solutions Manager, Head of Alternative Solutions since November 2022. He is based in Paris.
He was previously in charge of the SME Alternative Financing business, lending to SMEs in the UK, Netherlands and Germany, and focusing on origination, credit assessment and scalability of management processes. He was appointed to his role in November 2017, having previously headed BNP Paribas Asset Management’s Alternative Debt Management investment teams. As Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Alternative Fixed Income (later renamed Alternative Debt Management) from 2010, he was responsible for defining and piloting the management process and the investment strategy implemented by the management team. He actively participated in designing and developing the product range with several innovative debt funds (including capital guaranteed and inflation-adjusted funds), structured credit and private debt strategies (CLO, SME Debt).

Stéphane joined BNPP AM’s fixed income team in 2004 as Product Manager and Head of Fixed Income Solutions, after four years as an auditor in the Group’s ‘Inspection Générale’ department. He joined Banque Nationale de Paris in 1997 (prior to its merger with Paribas in 2000) as a risk manager in Tokyo, having previously held the same role at Pechiney, where he began his career in 1994 in the finance department in Sydney.