Stéphane Blanchoz is Head of SME Alternative Financing at BNP Paribas Asset Management. He is responsible for developing a distinctive SME alternative lending capability, focusing on origination, credit assessment and scalability of management processes. He was appointed to his current role in November 2017, having previously headed BNP Paribas Asset Management’s alternative debt and structured finance investment teams.

He joined the BNP Paribas group’s asset management arm in 2004 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. Stéphane holds a master’s degree in finance from the University of Lyon II.