Renaud Simons Executive Director, Mitigram Renaud Bertrand Simons is Executive Director of the Swedish digital trade finance platform Mitigram. He has a 30 years of experience in the financial industry first in Fortis Bank then in GE Capital in various business such as commercial banking, leasing, factoring, merchant banking, private banking, asset management, covering different top management functions. In addition to his current role in Mitigram Renaud is also an independent financial advisor involved in numerous projects such as Italian NPLs, M&A, receivable finance, corporate debt and general consulting. He is also the official Advisor for Economic and Foreign Trade matters of the Belgian embassy in Roma and Economic Ambassador for the Wallonia region in Italy. Renaud holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Namur, Belgium and speaks English, Italian, French and Dutch.