Professionals of Africa, our teams include over 10 nationalities from North and West Africa, where our main offices are based, as well as from Europe, Central Africa and East Africa. Our teams don’t just work on the African continent: they live there, or have lived there recently, and have extensive networks and intimate knowledge of our environments and their changes.

Our Leadership

Our Partners are Experts in each of FINACTU Group’s business lines

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Denis CHEMILLIER-GENDREAU

President

Denis CHEMILLIER-GENDREAU is a former Managing Director at PARIBAS, the Paris based investment bank, where he headed a subsidiary. For more than 25 years, he has been devoting his professional career to Africa. In 2000, he founded the FINACTU Group, relying on his extensive knowledge of international and European institutions, the policy challenges facing African governments, and the fields of finance, insurance, and social protection.

Géraldine MERMOUX
Géraldine MERMOUX

Managing Director – Partner

Managing Director and Partner of FINACTU since 2012, Géraldine MERMOUX leads the Group’s activities by bringing her strong financial expertise and her intimate knowledge of the African continent.

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Luc MORIO

Partner

Luc MORIO is a Partner at FINACTU since 2022. He is an expert in the African financial sector, advising financial institutions, companies and governments on corporate finance, strategic and operational advisory assignments.

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Lossani ZINA

Partner

Partner since the end of 2024, Lossani ZINA brings to FINACTU his solid expertise acquired over a decade of financial consulting practice in Africa, more than half of which within FINACTU.

The Team

Our Experts, Managers and Senior Consultants

  • Guillaume GILKES

    Guillaume GILKES

    Chief Technical Officer

    Guillaume GILKES  is an international finance expert dedicated to Africa. Key member of the team since 2007, he is now Chief Technical Officer.

  • Finactu - Omar AL-BAZ AARAB

    Omar AL-BAZ AARAB

    Senior Manager

    Omar AL-BAZ AARAB is a Senior Manager with the FINACTU Group, where he is responsible for the Abidjan office as well as for projects involving economic development issues for public and private entities

  • Guy RASOANAIVO

    Guy RASOANAIVO

    Director Central Africa

    Guy RASOANAIVO is the representative of FINACTU Group in Central Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in Actuarial Science from the University of Connecticut, Storrs (Uconn) in the USA.

  • Finactu - Yann BALLIET

    Yann BALLIET

    Manager

    Yann BALLIET is a Manager at the FINACTU Group's Abidjan office. He works on strategic transformation and program management assignments for institutional and corporate clients.

  • Ghita LAMRIKI

    Ghita LAMRIKI

    Senior Expert

    Ghita LAMRIKI is a Senior Expert within the FINACTU Group, specifically dedicated to the fields of financial inclusion and social protection.

  • Finactu - Marc STEINIK

    Marc STEINIK

    Senior Expert

    Marc STEINIK is an actuary and an engineer. Since 2016, he brings to the FINACTU Group his perfect knowledge of pension funds, both from "business" and "process" point of view.

  • Christine VAI

    Christine VAI

    Senior Expert

    Christine VAI has over 25 years of experience in corporate finance, banking and academic teaching. Christine worked in the banking sector in France, then moved to Tunisia, where she set up the risk analysis and management department at Banque ABC.

  • Mounir CHERIF

    Mounir CHERIF

    Senior Expert

    Graduate of the Faculty of Tunis with a Master's degree in Economics, Mounir CHERIF is an international expert in social protection and public policies for social development with more than 30 years of experience.

Our mission leaders and experts rely on a team of consultants spread across our operational headquarters in Casablanca, our office in Abidjan, and other countries where we have permanent teams (Gabon, Tunisia, Dubai).

The Team

Our support teams

  • Mounia KADIRI

    Mounia KADIRI

    Tender manager

    In the course of her career, Mounia KADIRI has specialised in tendering for public and private contracts in various sectors in France. Drawing on her ten years of experience, she joined FINACTU in 2017 to coordinate the group's biddings.

  • Omar BOULAHYA

    Omar BOULAHYA

    Chief Financial Officer

    Graduate of the University Mohammed V of Rabat and ESDG Rabat in partnership with the University Côte d'Opale (Master in Accounting Audit and Management Control), Omar BOULAHYA has developed his expertise in the accounting and administrative fields by working as a team leader for the company BPO Service and as a supervisor for Maroc Externalisation.

  • Finactu - Leila EL AMRANI

    Leila EL AMRANI

    Director of Human Resources and Training

    Leila EL AMRANI is the Head of Human Resources and Training at the FINACTU Group. She is responsible for implementing the Group's HR policies and managing its training programs through the organization of FINACTU's training seminars.