Axel Thibon

Founder & CEO at Wizest

Miami, Florida, United States

About

With my team, we are starting Wizest to make personal investing more accessible, more engaging, and more consistent with today's digital platforms and consumer behavior. Today, people think that investing is complicated and intimidating. What if there was a platform to pair novice investors with financial experts. Prior to Wizest, I have been working in banking for over 6 years, - Managed and led 4 M&A/integration projects for banks ranging from $300M to $15B - Led strategy/transformation initiatives - Managed a digital Bank and launched another from scratch

Experience

  • VP & Executive Board Member at French Tech Miami
    Nov 2025 - Present · 9 mos

  • Founder & CEO at Wizest
    2019 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

  • Senior Vice President, Transformation & Digital Bank at City National Bank
    2017 - 2018 · 1 yr

    TotalDirectBank: build and launched new online division/brand for City National Bank www.totaldirectbank.com City National Bank: M&A & Digital Transformation

  • Senior Vice President, Strategy & VirtualBank at IBERIABANK
    2017 - 2017 · Less than a year

  • Sabadell United Bank (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Vice President, Head of Strategy
      2015 - 2017 · 2 yrs

      Head of Strategy, managing the following areas at Sabadell United Bank: • Commercial and Strategic Planning • Strategic Projects/Initiatives • Sales Operations and Client Relationship Management • Portfolio Structure and Data Integrity • Product Development • Digital/Online • Marketing Planning/Budgeting

    • Head of VirtualBank
      2015 - 2017 · 2 yrs

      Head of online division/brand for Sabadell United Bank www.virtualbank.com

    • Vice President, Strategy
      2012 - 2015 · 3 yrs

      M&A and Internal Consulting Projects