NEW YORK, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Societe Generale announced today that Diony Lebot has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer for SG Americas, based in New York, following the retirement of Jean-Jacques Ogier. In her role as CEO, Diony Lebot is responsible for overseeing the activities of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking in the United States, Canada and Latin America. She will also be a member of the Societe Generale Group Management Committee.

Diony Lebot first joined Societe Generale in 1986 and has spent most of her career in the bank's structured finance businesses. In 1997 she was appointed Deputy Head of the Financial Engineering department (covering securitization, financial engineering and leasing) before being appointed Global Head of Asset Finance in 2001. She was appointed Head of European Coverage for the firm's Corporates & Institutions division in September 2004 and became a member of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking's Executive Committee at the end of 2006.

Diony Lebot graduated from University Pantheon Sorbonne in Paris, and holds a DESS (Masters) in Finance and Tax.

Societe Generale in the United States

Societe Generale opened its first office in the United States in 1938. Today it is one of the largest foreign banking organizations in the United States with more than 3,000 professionals working in more than 10 U.S. cities. Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, a reference bank for Derivatives, Structured Finance and Euro Capital Markets, provides its U.S. corporate and institutional clients with capital markets, fixed income, investment banking and advisory services. Asset management services are offered to clients through Societe Generale Asset Management and TCW. Societe Generale also has a significant presence in Canada and Latin America where the firm provides access to its full range of corporate and investment banking products and services.

Societe Generale

Societe Generale is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone. The Group employs 120,000 people worldwide in three key businesses:

    -- Retail Banking & Financial Services: Societe Generale serves 27,6
       million individual customers worldwide.
    -- Global Investment Management & Services: Societe Generale is one of the
       largest banks in the euro-zone in terms of assets under (EUR 2 585
       billion, Sept 2007) and under management (EUR 450,1 billion, Sept
       2007).
    -- Corporate & Investment Banking: Societe Generale ranks among the
       leading banks worldwide in euro capital markets, derivatives and
       structured finance.

Societe Generale is included in the five major socially-responsible investment indexes.

    http://www.socgen.com
    Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking

A leading player present in over 45 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking is the bank of reference for:

    -- Euro capital markets. A top 5 player across euro debt capital markets
       (bonds, securitisation, loans), and a leader in French Equity Capital
       Markets with European reach.
    -- Derivatives. A world leader in equity derivatives, and with forefront
       positions in many interest rate, credit, foreign exchange and
       commodities derivatives.
    -- Structured finance. A worldwide leader in export, project and
       structured commodity finance with global expertise in energy,
       infrastructure, real estate and media & telecom finance.

Tailoring solutions in terms of capital raising, financing, risk management and investment, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking combines expertise, innovation and advisory skills coupled with quality of execution to both issuers and investors clients across debt and equity.

http://www.sgcib.com

SOURCE Societe Generale

CONTACT: Press Relations, Stephanie Carson-Parker, +331-42-14-95-77, stephanie.carson- parker@socgen.com; or Corporate & Investment Banking, Jim Galvin, +1-212-278- 7131, jim.galvin@sgcib.com, both of Societe Generale -0- Dec/03/2007 15:49 GMT

Last Updated: December 3, 2007 10:49 EST