Sebastien Delasnerie

About Sebastien Delasnerie

Sébastien Delasnerie, a senior executive in the B2B payment arena, holds a record of shaping and executing multiple high growth strategies and successfully leading cross-functional teams through transformational initiatives. Leveraging 24 years of banking experience, Sébastien has consistently applied a client-centric strategic vision to articulate and deliver high impact revenue and profitability objectives. Sébastien is currently in charge of the North America Commercial Cards business at Citi with responsibilities cutting across client engagement, product development, operations and technology (>500 FTEs). Most recently, he led his team to successfully implement several client-focused initiatives emphasizing the security, immediacy, data enrichment, and financial benefits of the bank’s B2B payment solutions, yielding double digit CAGR in virtual card payments between 2019 and 2021. Sébastien thrives in high pace environments, particularly when responsible for driving foundational changes to a business model, as further exemplified by his leading a multi-year effort to modernize the business’ tech stack and avail clients with an upgraded platform able to support emerging market demands, including APIs and data analytics.Sébastien is passionate about the B2B payment space and the ever-evolving demand of clients in this field, creating endless opportunities to add value to the buyer-seller relationship. In his previous role as North America Trade Business Head at Citi, he assessed the market demand for cash flow optimization following the 2009 financial crisis and led his team to execute a market-wide commercialization campaign of the bank’s working capital solutions, primarily supply chain finance.Sébastien’s leadership style can be best characterized as ’50/50’; half ‘consultative’, drawing from the best and brightest across the organization, and half ‘pace setter’, identifying the strategic priorities and driving their successful execution.Going forward, Sébastien looks to continue to leverage his diverse banking background and extensive senior leadership experience, identify growth opportunities, optimize organizational resources, implement the necessary changes and drive teams to new heights.Sébastien is proud to serve as senior sponsor of the LGBTQ+ Employee Affinity Group for Citi Treasury & Trade Solutions North America.Sébastien holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics & Finance from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France) and a Master’s Degree in Financial Engineering from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (France).

Experience

1. Global Head Corporate Card Product

   Mastercard

   Nov 2022 — Present · NY, US

Education

• Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)

  MBA, Financial Engineering

  1994 — 1995

• Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris

  BA, Economics & Finance

  1991 — 1994

Skills

• Loans
• Credit Risk
• Relationship Management
• Credit
• Trade Finance
• Corporate Finance