Jean-Paul Mergeai

Belgian, born 1961 Jean-Paul Mergeai is a member of the Management Board with a CEO advisory role. Until most recently he served as President International Sales, with responsibility for Europe, Middle East & Africa as well as APAC. Jean-Paul joined Temenos through the acquisition of Odyssey Financial Technologies in 2010 and was responsible for Temenos' Private Wealth global operations, then for leading our North American sales operations, before becoming Managing Director for the Middle East and Africa in 2014 and President International in 2021. Prior to Temenos, Jean-Paul held senior leadership positions at Odyssey where he managed the firm's global accounts program as well as Odyssey's North American operations. Jean-Paul moved to the financial industry when he joined Reuters in Luxembourg in 1989. A seasoned executive, he has over 30 years of experience in delivering value to banks and financial institutions. Jean-Paul started his career as an academic focusing his research on machine translation and artificial intelligence as applied to natural languages. Jean-Paul graduated from the University of Liège magna cum laude with a master's degree in Linguistics and Information Technology in 1984.