Board

Jean-François Faucher

Jean-François graduated from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Montreal. He also graduated from the Executive MBA at ESSEC, a leading business school in Paris. He began his professional career in the aerospace and defense industries, serving airlines and air forces throughout North America, for a subsidiary of Cobham PLC. He worked for leading technology consulting companies such as Altran and Segula Technologies in the field of business process outsourcing for various industries.

Jean-Francois started logistics operations in Poland in 2006 as the President of STACI Polska. After the separation of STACI, currently XBS Group, he came to Poland in 2012, where he is a shareholder and President of the supervisory board of the XBS Group Supervisory Board and the President of the Management Board of PRO-LOG (Logistics service of excise goods).

Josée Weydert

Josée Weydert is the managing partner of NautaDutilh Luxembourg, where she heads the Luxembourg Banking & Finance practice. Josée specialises in financing, securitisation, (debt and equity) capital markets and financial regulatory matters.

Josée is a trusted advisor of numerous financial institutions, financial professionals and corporate groups. Due to her extensive experience working in the capital markets and structured finance departments at a well-known Luxembourg bank, she has particularly strong expertise in the banking and capital markets fields.

With more than 25 years of legal experience, Josée enjoys high recognition among both market players and clients. In 2020, Josée was named a Leading Expert in Banking & Finance Law in Luxembourg by Chambers Europe and as a Women Leader by the IFLR1000. Chambers notes that she has “profound knowledge of the products and services marketed in Luxembourg’s financial market and excellent working relationships with the government and regulators” and that clients value her “depth of expertise and long-standing experience in the banking industry”.

Josée and her team contribute regularly to various publications, including The Luxembourg Banking & Finance Comparative Guide (The Legal 500, 2019) and an article entitled “PSD2 Implementation in the Grand Duchy – Six Months Later” (ILO, 2019).

Josée obtained her law degree from the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg (1992) and subsequently completed the two-year programme for young banking executives at the Luxembourg Training Institute for Banking (1995). She regularly speaks at conferences on topics relating to the financial sector.

Josée was admitted to the Luxembourg Bar in 1993.

She is a Luxembourg native and is fluent in English, French, German and Luxembourgish.

Cindy Tereba

Cindy Tereba was born in 1979 in Luxembourg. She left her home country in 1998 to pursue her studies in fine arts and literature in London, Düsseldorf and Paris and subsequently pursued an international career. She started her professional path off at the Institut Français in Düsseldorf before she ventured into the business world, working for a German e-commerce startup. In 2008 she left Europe to live and work in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Here she became the Business Development Services Manager of the German-Emirati Chamber of Commerce supporting German countries to enter the GCC countries (except Saudi-Arabia and Yemen).

Four years later she moved to Berlin where she first worked for the Luxembourgish economy, setting up the first foreign office of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce abroad and founding the Business Club Luxembourg, a business network of 80 Luxembourgish and German companies. Only recently she returned to Luxembourg to take up the post of Director International Affairs at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce.

Serge Krancenblum

Serge Krancenblum is the co-founder of IQ EQ Group and has been the key figure in transforming IQ EQ into the 4th largest independent investor services firm in the world. Serge now chairs the Supervisory Board of the Group. He also leads the Group’s M&A Strategy and is responsible for its Corporate Social Responsibility.

Serge is an international entrepreneur who has created and managed a number of successful companies over the course of his career. He is recognised for his leadership throughout the financial industry, and is frequently invited to speak at international conferences. He is also the Chairman of Gatsby and White, a leading company offering bespoke life insurance solutions.

He sits as an Independent Director on the boards of several real estate and private equity funds, and is also a Director of a number of private companies.

Serge is the founder and Chairman of the Investment Facilitation Forum, a platform for organisations committed to facilitating Foreign Direct Investment at global level.

He is also the President of LIMSA, the Luxembourg investor services association, and of LAFO, the Luxembourg Association of Family Offices.

Serge is known for his philanthropic work and has created the SGG Crossroads event in Luxembourg, a thought provoking platform which brings together international decision makers.

In 2018, Serge was voted as the European Personality of the Year at the Funds Europe Awards. This prestigious award recognises personal and company achievements and contributions to the European funds community.

Jean-Marc Ueberecken

John Parkhouse

Marie Laure Goeres

Marie Laure Goeres completed her studies in Economics in St Gallen, Switzerland. Having started her first company at the age of 18, she continues her entrepreneurial adventures at the side of her father, as General Manager of Goeres Hotels. She moved back to Luxembourg in 2020 where she has been working at Goeres Hotels since.

Of Luxembourgish and Polish nationality she embraces strong business cooperation between the two countries. Her first company is still active today with its main activity linking Polish furniture manufacturers with the Luxembourgish market.

Pawel Wroblewski

Prof. Franck Leprévost

Raymond Krawczykowski

Dr. Donat Jagiello

Bartosz Jałowiecki

Conrad Bruch

Georges Faber

Paul Schmit

He studied law at the University of Strasbourg and political science at Paris II University. After his studies, he joined the Luxembourg civil service, firstly in the Ministry of Defence, then in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he has served since 1992. He has completed several foreign missions, including Brussels (Permanent Representations to NATO and to the European Union), Washington and Lisbon. Since 2020, he is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Grand Duchy Luxembourg to the Republic of Poland. He is also accredited to the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Lithuania.

Piotr Wojtczak

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Luxembourg.

Piotr Wojtczak has been working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1994. He specialises in European affairs.

He has also held managerial positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director of the Europe Department, Director General of the External Service and Director of Diplomatic Protocol.

In 1999, he was Coordinator of EU accession negotiations in the field of Justice and Home Affairs. In 2006-2007 he held the position of Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the EU – Ambassador – Chargé d’affaires. He also worked at the Polish Embassy in Brussels (2004 – Chargé d’affaires; 2008 – Consul General of the Consular Service of the Polish Embassy).

Piotr Wojtczak graduated in Political Science and Roman Philology at the University of Marie Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin. He is also a graduate of the National School of Public Administration. He is fluent in French, English and Italian.