During his career, Damien Guermonprez created and managed 15 credit institutions, leasing companies and insurance companies on behalf of large groups. He led for ten years Oney Bank, the Auchan Group banking division.

Now he invests on his own and invested in the former BNP Paribas Personal Finance Belgium and 22 startups of which half are FinTechs (Lemonway, EdenPay, Evollis, Babyloan, Pumpkin, Tudigo, Wedoogift, Tiller Systems, Hoolders, TacoTax, Masuccession.fr, Seald, Jalaya)

He is the full-time Executive Chairman of the pan-European payment institution Lemonway, which serves marketplaces including those in the alternative finance sector. It is in this capacity that he joined the FPF board of directors, of which he has just become chairman. He is also Vice President of AFEPAME, the French association of payment institutions and electronic money issuers. He is a graduate of Essec and Harvard MBA.