After more than 20 years of experience in strategy consulting, venture capital and retail financial services in Europe, Jean-Gaston de Lassus founded Altissima in 2019. A strategy and transition management consulting firm, specialised in retail services, Altissima provides its clients with agile and flexible leadership assistance, associated with an entrepreneurial touch: ambitious, innovative, tech-driven, results-oriented. Altissima is proud to advise a diversified set of clients in fintech, digital banking, and sustainability-oriented corporates.

With 15 years spent at the executive level of various specialized banks of Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance in France, Germany and the Netherlands, Jean-Gaston has acquired an extended view of international governance issues and today's strategic challenges in the world of financial services. His views are grounded in the hands-on and diversified leadership experience he acquired as CIO, CRO, COO or Head of Business Development. Business transformation has been the red line of his career, as he was leading a merger and cost cutting program, developing new corporate ventures or transforming organisations and business models. In his latest roles, he has been a thought-leader in the massive transformation of the consumer finance industry in France and in the Netherlands, as CEO of the largest Dutch consumer finance specialist.