Formerly Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Atos Origin, an international IT company. Mr Cherpitel has also served as Chairman and director of the Red Cross Foundation; as General Secretary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva; and as Managing Director of Security Capital Group in London. The majority of Mr Cherpitel’s professional career has been with J.P. Morgan, a leading global financial bank, where he began as a trainee and progressed to Managing Director of the French operation.