Guillaume François Jest

Mr Guillaume Jest has over 26 years of finance leadership experience, with a strong record of building tax, treasury and financial reporting teams through periods of change in multicultural environments. He brings a wealth of experience spanning across FMCG, industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, most extensively in Asia. Guillaume held the role of International Financial Controller Latin America, South Europe and Asia regions for Laboratoires Servier, Paris, from 1994 to 2000.

He moved on to work with Nestlé Waters until 2007, taking up the positions of Controller for China and Indonesia respectively for three years each. He also served as Executive Committee member in Nestlé Waters Indonesia. He then spent his time between 2008 to 2020 in Koch Industries, an American conglomerate. From 2008 to 2017, he held the position of Director, Asia and Europe with Koch Audit and Advisory in Singapore, providing strategic consulting services to Asia and Europe offices and developing strategies to improve operating processes. Prior to joining Yinson on 1 December 2020, Guillaume was an Executive Committee member and the Finance Director of Guardian Industries, Africa, Middle East, India and Asia, in Bahrain, building and leading a high-performance tax, treasury and finance team spanning across seven countries. Guillaume graduated from Harvard Business School, General Management Program and holds a Master of International Management from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris, France.