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- Sep 2026BNP Paribas and Google Cloud announce new partnership on agentic AI and cloud innovation
“Our approach to AI starts with the business need. We assess which technology is best suited to each use case and deploy it within the bank's security and governance framework. Agentic AI can help our teams handle more complex workflows while maintaining the appropriate level of control.”
- Jun 2026
- Jun 2026An AI chief for one of the world's largest banks says tokenmaxxing is a 'vanity metric'
“We try to make sure that what we track is an outcome, not a vanity metric.”
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Chief AI Officer, BNP Paribas CIB. Former SVP, AI Solutions & Platforms at PepsiCo and Global Head of Applied AI/ML at JP Morgan CIB.
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Charles Holive is Chief AI Officer at BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking. Previously SVP, AI Solutions & Platforms at PepsiCo and Managing Director, Global Head of Applied AI/ML at JP Morgan CIB, he has spent 20+ years in data, analytics and AI, turning them into P&L impact.
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Charles Holive is Chief AI Officer at BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking, where he leads BNP Paribas CIB’s global AI strategy — embedding AI as a sustainable engine of value creation, operational excellence, and competitive advantage. He is a member of the CIB Business Forum, reporting to Olivier Osty, Deputy COO of BNP Paribas and CEO of CIB.
Charles brings over two decades of leadership in data, analytics, and AI. As SVP, AI Solutions & Platforms at PepsiCo (2024–2026), he led PepsiCo’s enterprise agentic and GenAI strategy, solutions and platforms ($92B company, 200+ countries). He built the agentic AI “Brains” platform, with a nine-figure EBITDA pipeline and thousands of FTE-equivalent hours returned, and forged strategic partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, ServiceNow, Salesforce, SAP, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Earlier, as Managing Director and Global Head of Applied AI/ML, GenAI & Digital Tools Services at JP Morgan Corporate & Investment Bank (2021–2024), he led 250+ data scientists, engineers and product leaders and delivered a 7× increase in impact, to $150M+ EBIT uplift plus $60M+ annualized cost savings.
Before that, Charles was Chief Monetization Strategist & MD at Sisense (2018–2021). He spent 2003–2018 at GE Healthcare, ending as GM & VP, Analytics & AI, where he created the “Applied Intelligence” brand. He is also Founder & CEO of stealth ventures in AI multi-agent systems and music/tech. He holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur (Master’s in Engineering & Business) from École Centrale de Lille.
Charles writes and speaks regularly on agentic AI, responsible adoption, and what it takes to move enterprise AI from experimentation to industrial-scale execution.
