Francois Delepine

Current

Owner at graycells consulting
Senior Implementation Consultant at 3i Infotech-Framework Ltd

Past

Senior Consultant / Project Manager (Self-employed)
Senior Management Consultant at Fujitsu Services
Project Manager / Business Developer at EFT Consultants

Product Manager at Finance Technology Systems
EDP Manager at Fortis Investments Belgium
IT Analyst at Axime Ingénierie
Project Manager at Metropolitan Bank
IT Analyst at Cap Gemini Sesa Belgium
IT Analyst-Programmer at Société Générale Alsacienne de Banque
IT Analyst-Programmer at Sobemap

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Education

Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons
ICET Cuesmes (Mons, Belgium)

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500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Francois Delepine’s Summary

IT & consultancy independent professional, I have established a solid reputation in providing project management and consultancy services for the financial community including banks, asset managers, brokerage houses, and PE/VC firms. I am specialised since more than 15 years in the development and implementation of top-tier financial software products, and also gained a significant experience in managing successful software selection projects.

I am interested in very short-term (a few days) and long-term (6 months+) project or consulting assignments.

Please do not hesitate to contact me: fdelepine@graycells.be

Francois Delepine’s Specialties:

Banking & Finance : Securities Handling, Order Management & Routing, Financial Messaging, COA, Custody, Brokerage & Trading, Private Banking, Asset Management, Fund Administration, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Alternative Investments.

Project Management. Business Development. Product Management. Business & IT Consultancy. Strong experience in package selection & implementation: fidessa, frameworks, sophis risque, gl, banking systems, erp systems, ...

Francois Delepine’s Experience

Owner

graycells consulting

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Please check out the new website: http://www.graycells.be
Senior Implementation Consultant

3i Infotech-Framework Ltd

(Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — Present (3 years )

Framework is a complete, end-to-end alternative assets software solution which manages risk, enables transparency and increases operational efficiency across the entire Private Equity market.

Framework is part of 3i - Infotech Western Europe.

I am working within the implementation team, servicing clients in the EMEA region.
Senior Consultant / Project Manager

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Project assignments on behalf of ITG Consulting (www.itgconsulting.be):

1 - Dexia Bank (IUNS Securities Handling project) - functional analysis in the following areas: Corporate Actions Referential Data,Tax Pooling, Repo transactions handling.

2 - Fortis Bank (Chorus Securities Handling project) - functional analysis & project coordination (target model connectivity) for the Fortis Bank Nederland retail banking release.
Senior Management Consultant

Fujitsu Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2005 — August 2005 (3 months)

Definition of a renewed service offering for the banking industry in the Belux area.

An awful and luckily very short experience !
Project Manager / Business Developer

EFT Consultants

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1999 — May 2005 (6 years 1 month)

Build & managed partnerships & business alliances with financial software publishers.

Assisted various financial institutions in software selection and assessment processes.

Managed major IT and Business Transformation projects for Fortis Bank:

1. Automation of the institutional equity brokerage Middle Office desk (trade capture, automated settlement instructions deduction, client confirmation & reporting, interface to back-office systems).

2. Software selection process and implementation of the Royalblue Fidessa Trading Platform for pan-European equity brokerage and trading activities.

3. Software selection process and implementation of the Accounting Frameworks Private Equity product suite for pan-European private equity and fund of funds investments activities.

Introduced Private Banking functionality into EFT’s Net-Bank e-banking platform.
Product Manager

Finance Technology Systems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1998 — April 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Designed the Euro migration plan for all securities related IBBA modules.

Coordinated IBBA securities modules launch at Bank Corluy Effekten Bankiers (Antwerpen): Order routing, Trade capture, Securities Handling processes, Link to the IBBA CRM ‘Client Overview’ module.
EDP Manager

Fortis Investments Belgium

(Public Company; Investment Management industry)

September 1996 — March 1998 (1 year 7 months)

Designed and managed the IT project plan aiming at the implementation of a new IT architecture for order routing & management, institutional portfolio management, private banking, mutual fund administration, financial research, product development, financial accounting, and customer relationship management (institutional and private clients).
IT Analyst

Axime Ingénierie

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1995 — September 1996 (1 year 5 months)

Functional analysis and prototyping for Banque Bruxelles Lambert (BBL, now ING) within the RIF project: Securities Deposit Reference Data, Conditions Management, Securities Accounting.
Project Manager

Metropolitan Bank

(Banking industry)

June 1990 — April 1995 (4 years 11 months)

Managed a multi-year IT project plan to implement new IT applications for all securities related business processes :
1. Managed development of the new securities handling system.
2. Managed selection and implementation of a mutual fund administration software (Cosofin2).
3. Upgraded existing applications (bons de caisse, CRM, statistics) into the new IT architecture.
IT Analyst

Cap Gemini Sesa Belgium

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1990 — May 1990 (5 months)

Consulting and consultative selling activities for clients into the industrial and healthcare areas.
IT Analyst-Programmer

Société Générale Alsacienne de Banque

(Banking industry)

February 1988 — December 1989 (1 year 11 months)

Developed new securities handling applications into the bank’s new integrated IT architecture.
IT Analyst-Programmer

Sobemap

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1986 — January 1988 (1 year 5 months)

Developed and launched a new accounting system for GB-Inno-BM’s franchising department.

Designed and developed a new portfolio management system for Tractebel Group.

Francois Delepine’s Education

Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons

Engineer , Commercial Engineer , 1982 — 1985
ICET Cuesmes (Mons, Belgium)

Bachelor , Computer Science , 1980 — 1982