Summary
Yoan Renard is a senior solutions and AI engineering leader with 11 years of experience building big-data platforms and analytics software, currently leading a multidisciplinary team at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to deliver production-grade AI and software solutions. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at ADIA after earlier quant and front-office development stints at BlueCrest and BNP Paribas, giving him a rare blend of finance domain expertise and hands-on engineering. Yoan is comfortable spanning architecture to implementation, driving cross-functional collaboration to solve complex, high-stakes problems. An INSEAD executive-education alumnus with a background in computer science, finance and applied mathematics, he pairs rigorous quantitative training with practical delivery discipline. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who turns experimental ideas into reliable systems—outside work he jokes about building “paper planes from paper balls,” hinting at a playful, iterative approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Finance, Applied Mathematics, Master, Computer Science, Finance, Applied Mathematics at ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise
Executive Education, Research and Development Management, Executive Education, Research and Development Management at INSEAD
MPSI/MP, Maths/Physics, Mathematics, MPSI/MP, Maths/Physics, Mathematics at Lycée de Bellevue
Masters, Financial Markets, Masters, Financial Markets at Essec Business School Paris / ESSEC
English, French