Visible Banking - Christophe Langlois, social media evangelist
Visible-Banking.com is the leading independent blog 100% focused on social media in banking and financial services.
Christophe Langlois, Founder & Social Media Evangelist
Prior to his recent Senior Innovation Manager role at Lloyds TSB, one of the major UK banks, Christophe worked in business development, in both telecommunications and banking. In these roles he helped drive significant new business in both the payments straight through processing, and anti-money laundering space.
Christophe is an active blogger and business networker. His main blog, Visible-Banking.com, is the leading independent blog 100% focused on social media in banking and financial services. Christophe is an experienced presenter, thought leader, and advocate for Web 2.0, and he is a regularly requested speaker at conferences.
In 2008, Christophe founded his consultancy firm to help financial institutions better understand and leverage social media.
Christophe holds an Msc in IT and an MBA, both of which were obtained in his homeland France.
Contacts - CV
Christophe's passion for social networking
Christophe Langlois, Founder & Social Media Evangelist
Prior to his recent Senior Innovation Manager role at Lloyds TSB, one of the major UK banks, Christophe worked in business development, in both telecommunications and banking. In these roles he helped drive significant new business in both the payments straight through processing, and anti-money laundering space.
Christophe is an active blogger and business networker. His main blog, Visible-Banking.com, is the leading independent blog 100% focused on social media in banking and financial services. Christophe is an experienced presenter, thought leader, and advocate for Web 2.0, and he is a regularly requested speaker at conferences.
In 2008, Christophe founded his consultancy firm to help financial institutions better understand and leverage social media.
Christophe holds an Msc in IT and an MBA, both of which were obtained in his homeland France.
Contacts - CV
Christophe's passion for social networking
Public speaking engagements in 2008
US - the Online Retail Banking Services 2008 conference, New York
US - FinovateStartup, San Francisco
Singapore - Retail Banking Innovations 08, Singapore
Greece - EFMA - Online Financial Services 08, Athens
France - EFMA - Les Canaux du Future, Paris
UK - Web 2.0 Strategies 2008, London
UK - KCUK 2008, London
UK - EFMA - Microsoft Banking Advisory Council, London
UK - Online Information Conference 08, London
Public speaking engagements in 2009
Austria - Multichannel Banking Excellence, Vienna (TBC)
Bahrain - MEFTEC 09, Bahrain
France - Social Media Revolution and Impact on Financial Services, Paris
Malaysia - E-Channel Management for Retail Banking, Kuala Lumpur
Netherlands - Congres Sociale Netwerken, Rotterdam
UK - Face The Challenge of Social Media, London
UK - Digital Cream 2009, London
UK - Social Media B-to-B Forum, London
UK - Engaging the Customer: Getting it right with Social Media, London
UK - Future of Digital Marketing 2009, London
UK - Loyalty World 2009, London
UK - SOMESSO London 09, London
UK - Social Media in Financial Markets, London
US - 'Social Media & Finance' Workshop, San Francisco
Endorsements (source: Linkedin)
“Christophe seems to have his finger on the pulse of the financial services industry. Visible Banking has become "the" source of information for innovations in the financial services industry.”
Tim Collins, SVP-Experiential Marketing, Wells Fargo
“Christophe has written a very valuable and in-depth analysis of the site Fortis launched for entrepreneurs, join2grow.biz. He maintains a superb site, visible-banking.com, where he educuates us with real passion on web2.0 invitivates. It was a real pleasure to meet Christophe in real live, and I can recommend everyone in the banking industry with plans to launch a web 2.0 site to contact Christophe to discuss their idea.”
Catherine Ossemerct, head of media-channels, Fortis
“Christophe is an industry leader and a true visionary. I've been reading his work for some time and had the pleasure of working with him at the Marcus Evans Online Retail Banking Services conference. Christophe served as the conference chair. He masterfully led the two-day event keeping attendees engaged and focused. His sharing of keen insight, opinion and direct connections to leading industry members was exceptionally valuable.”
Michael Neil, Vice President, Online Strategy, Merrill Lynch
Team Management & People Development
Christophe successfully built and grew high achieving international sales teams in B-to-B and B-to-C. Strong focus on people development.
Video Interviews on Visible Banking
Christophe is passionate about innovation. He likes meeting passionate people, people with a vision.
On regular basis, he shoots video interviews with the Founders/CEOs/Senior Executives of the most innovative companies online.
US - the Online Retail Banking Services 2008 conference, New York
US - FinovateStartup, San Francisco
Singapore - Retail Banking Innovations 08, Singapore
Greece - EFMA - Online Financial Services 08, Athens
France - EFMA - Les Canaux du Future, Paris
UK - Web 2.0 Strategies 2008, London
UK - KCUK 2008, London
UK - EFMA - Microsoft Banking Advisory Council, London
UK - Online Information Conference 08, London
Public speaking engagements in 2009
Austria - Multichannel Banking Excellence, Vienna (TBC)
Bahrain - MEFTEC 09, Bahrain
France - Social Media Revolution and Impact on Financial Services, Paris
Malaysia - E-Channel Management for Retail Banking, Kuala Lumpur
Netherlands - Congres Sociale Netwerken, Rotterdam
UK - Face The Challenge of Social Media, London
UK - Digital Cream 2009, London
UK - Social Media B-to-B Forum, London
UK - Engaging the Customer: Getting it right with Social Media, London
UK - Future of Digital Marketing 2009, London
UK - Loyalty World 2009, London
UK - SOMESSO London 09, London
UK - Social Media in Financial Markets, London
US - 'Social Media & Finance' Workshop, San Francisco
Endorsements (source: Linkedin)
“Christophe seems to have his finger on the pulse of the financial services industry. Visible Banking has become "the" source of information for innovations in the financial services industry.”
Tim Collins, SVP-Experiential Marketing, Wells Fargo
“Christophe has written a very valuable and in-depth analysis of the site Fortis launched for entrepreneurs, join2grow.biz. He maintains a superb site, visible-banking.com, where he educuates us with real passion on web2.0 invitivates. It was a real pleasure to meet Christophe in real live, and I can recommend everyone in the banking industry with plans to launch a web 2.0 site to contact Christophe to discuss their idea.”
Catherine Ossemerct, head of media-channels, Fortis
“Christophe is an industry leader and a true visionary. I've been reading his work for some time and had the pleasure of working with him at the Marcus Evans Online Retail Banking Services conference. Christophe served as the conference chair. He masterfully led the two-day event keeping attendees engaged and focused. His sharing of keen insight, opinion and direct connections to leading industry members was exceptionally valuable.”
Michael Neil, Vice President, Online Strategy, Merrill Lynch
Team Management & People Development
Christophe successfully built and grew high achieving international sales teams in B-to-B and B-to-C. Strong focus on people development.
Video Interviews on Visible Banking
Christophe is passionate about innovation. He likes meeting passionate people, people with a vision.
On regular basis, he shoots video interviews with the Founders/CEOs/Senior Executives of the most innovative companies online.
