Person of the Moment Archive

Claude Cargou / February 2010

Chief Executive Officer, Governis

Claude B. Cargou is currently CEO of Governis a newly created consulting firm focused on audit of IT Governance. Prior to this position he was from 2002 to end of end of 2007 Group Chief Audit Executive of AXA a world leader in financial services.

From 1990 to 2002 Claude was EVP in charge of IT and e-business in AXA.
Claude worked also in Information Technology for major French banks such as Credit du Nord and BNP. He also worked for IT vendors and consulting firms in France and in the USA.

In 1995 he was elected Chairman of the French CIO’s association. In 2006 he became Chairman of IFACI the French association of Internal Auditors for two years. He is now the President of the European Confederation of the Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA).

Claude is a member of several Boards and Chairman of Audit Committees. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor.