From Business to Design

Today, I'm a design exec blending user experience with business strategy in the financial space... 🐣 and I wasn’t born a UX designer.

I started my career in consulting and finance, explaining structured investment solutions to diverse clients ranging from French agricultural cooperatives (in Paris) to regional banks in Asia (in Hong Kong).

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Back then, I was a victim of disjointed interfaces.

It almost seemed to be a point of pride on the trading floor! The more complicated your screen looked, the cooler you were.

Drawing of many screens

But I had a secret: I was an undercover designer.

Day job aside, I was a freelance artist and developing indie games (still doing it today!), and I rebelled against my badly designed tools to change them.

Drawing of Detective Pikachu

Fast forward to today, I am now the Managing Director of Design at Societe Generale CIB, responsible for its design vision and strategy. I lead from London an international and multidisciplinary team of design experts in service of our mission to empower people to take control over sophisticated products and financial systems.

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I'm also a culture change advocate for highly collaborative organizations 🚀.

Life snippets

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Biographies

Bio in English

Morgane is a Managing Director with 15+ years of experience leading design, product, and transformation programmes in complex financial environments. Currently Head of Product Design and AI Lead at Societe Generale CIB, she helps deliver and shape digital products for start-ups, corporates, and financial institutions across cross-functional teams and countries. Morgane brings a design mindset to complex challenges, blending user insights with technical feasibility to maximise business impact.

Outside of work, she mentors, speaks at international conferences, and tinkers with emerging trends through side projects, such as running a solopreneur crochet business and contributing to a crowdfunded indie video game.

Bio in French

Morgane Peng est Managing Director à la Société Générale CIB, où elle est responsable monde du design produit et AI lead pour le Royaume-Uni. Avec un parcours entrepreneurial dans les industries numériques, culturelles et créatives, elle s’est aventurée dans divers domaines du conseil en entreprise, de la finance de marché, du design et de la tech.

Parallèlement à sa carrière, Morgane intervient dans des conférences internationales, s’investit dans le mentorat et contribue à un jeu vidéo indépendant financé sur Kickstarter.

Headshot

If you're a conference and you need a headshot, I recommend this 1:1 headshot or this 2:3 portrait.

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