Claire Calmejane

Business Angel, Leia Capital

Dedicated C-level delivering growth and operating efficiencies. Her passion lies in driving enterprise-wide transformation, launching and scaling teams and new business models, leveraging AI, Blockchain, Cyber and IT innovation to better serve our clients and drive P&L growth. Her international experience (10 years) across the US, UK, NL, and France has equipped her with a unique perspective on global markets and customer engagement strategies. She has a robust experience of corporate governance (risk, finance, compliance) in regulated environment with her executive career and as non-executive director of BOURSORAMA, (Board + Chairwomen of the audit committee).

At Societe Generale, she led the AI team contributing to E500m by 2025, scaled the digital business from 3% to 30% direct sales, created SG Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SG steering 400 million investment startups and initiated two business line for digital asset and bank as a service.

At Lloyds Banking Group, she built robust technical foundations for the company’s online business scaling for millions of customers, created LBG Innovation labs resulting in over 50+ innovation for our clients, operated the digital center of excellence resulting in upskilling and recruiting thousands of colleagues in new roles (product management, data and analytics, c-suite transformation) and led the risk transformation through a data lens.

Beyond her executive responsibilities, she is deeply committed to fostering diversity in STEM, mentoring women entrepreneurs, and championing women in tech through angel investments (Leia Capital) and international competitions. She graduated from EPITA as IT engineer #1 of her class in Artifical Intelligence and cognitive science, has a master’s degree from HEC, and was visiting researcher at MIT as part of Capgemini’s partnership.