Céline Lazorthes, Founder & CEO of Leetchi Group, joins Oney’s Board of Directors
As part of its efforts to speed up its business development, Oney announces the appointment of Céline Lazorthes, Founder & CEO of Leetchi Group – Leetchi.com & MANGOPAY –, to its Board of Directors. With her entrepreneurial spirit and passion for the digital space, Céline Lazorthes will bring her expertise to Oney’s international expansion.
As a member of Oney’s Board of Directors, Céline Lazorthes, 34 years of age, will help develop the Group’s strategic approach. She will thus help speed up the development strategy for innovative payment solutions feeding into a smooth and secure customer experience.
The arrival of this FinTech and innovative payment specialist is a major plus for Oney’s development. She enhances the Group’s innovativeness in terms of the customer experience of the future.
Currently heading up Leetchi.com, a personal fundraising and group gifting website and MANGOPAY, a payments solution for marketplace, crowdfunding and sharing economy platforms, Céline Lazorthes sets demanding goals for her teams in Paris, London, Luxembourg, Cork and Berlin.
“I’m honoured to be joining Oney’s Board of Directors, an innovative and caring company. The digital space is a perfect springboard for growing banking activities both domestically and internationally”
— Céline Lazorthes“We are delighted and proud that Céline Lazorthes is joining our Board of Directors. Thanks to her background and entrepreneurship, Céline will offer new insights into our development as well as in-depth knowledge of FinTech and of the partners with whom we would like to work. Céline Lazorthes will also bring new ways of thinking to infuse more nimbleness and flexibility into the Group's growth. ”
— Xavier de Mezerac, Non-Executive Chairman of Oney groupAbout Oney:
Created in 1983, Oney is a subsidiary bank of Auchan Holding and currently has operations in 11 countries (China, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia and Ukraine) and 2,900 employees worldwide, including 900 in France. As a partner to merchants, Oney helps them in all sales channels to redefine and optimise their customer experiences by capitalising on its dual identity as a banker and merchant. Thanks to innovative technologies, its expertise in all electronic and traditional payment solutions, its customer knowledge and its understanding of new modes of consumption, Oney enables its partners to offer their customers more simple, secure, cross-channel and innovative shopping experiences. Since 1 July 2016, in France the name Oney has replaced Banque Accord and become the single brand for the group.