Question: What position did American financial services director John Hailer recently retire from in an asset management group related to a large French corporate and investment bank?

full_context: Document 1: State Bank of India: State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational, public sector banking and financial services company. It is a government-owned corporation with its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. On 1st April, 2017, State Bank of India, which is India's largest Bank merged with five of its Associate Banks (State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Patiala and State Bank of Travancore) and Bharatiya Mahila Bank with itself. This is the first ever large scale consolidation in the Indian Banking Industry. With the merger, State Bank of India will enter the league of top 50 global banks with a balance sheet size of ₹33 trillion, 278,000 employees, 420 million customers, and more than 24,000 branches and 59,000 ATMs. SBI's market share will increase to 22 percent from 17 per cent. It has 198 offices in 37 countries; 301 correspondents in 72 countries. The company is ranked 232nd on the "Fortune Global 500" list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2016.
Document 2: National &amp; Capital: National & Capital, or N&C as it is more commonly known claims to be "one of the UK's leading mortgage brokers" who specialise in the placement of prime, buy to let and non-conforming mortgages. It was established in 1999 as Fasttrack Finance but later changed its name to Essex & Capital Mortgage Corporation Ltd when it was acquired by the US Investment Bank Bear Stearns. It was taken back into private ownership in 2006 as National & Capital when Bear Stearns took the decision to withdraw completely from the UK mortgage market after a rise in foreclosures in the United States in late 2006 which subsequently triggered a global financial crisis through 2007 and 2008.
Document 3: Union Investment: Union Investment (formal name Union Asset Management Holding AG) is the investment arm of the DZ Bank Group and part of the cooperative financial services network. It was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Frankfurt.
Document 4: Intesa Sanpaolo: Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group resulting from the merger between Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI based in Torre Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin, Italy. It has clear leadership in the Italian market and a minor but growing international presence focused on Central-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (97% of the bank's revenue from Europe and 86% of all loans to customers come from business in Italy). When it was formed in 2007 it overtook Unicredit Group as the largest bank in Italy with 13 million customers and $690 billion worth of assets. By 2010 its assets had grown to $877.66 billion 26th highest among all of the world's companies. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.
Document 5: Natixis: Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created in November 2006 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of "Natexis Banque Populaire" (Banque Populaire group) and "IXIS" (Groupe Caisse d'Epargne).
Document 6: Peter Halloran: Peter M. Halloran is the founder and CEO of Pharos Financial Group, an investment firm active in global markets since 1997. The firm was established with initial investment capital from Credit Suisse and Soros Fund Management. In 2014, Pharos added a Dallas-based investment arm, Titanium Exploration Partners LLC, to invest into U.S. Oil & Gas opportunities. Altogether, Halloran has brought over $10 billion to the markets in which he invests. He was awarded Hedge Fund Manager of the Year in 2010 by Hedge Fund World, and his Pharos Gas Investment Fund and Pharos Russia Fund have been both ranked among top-15 global performers by Bloomberg. He has never gated an investment, suspended an NAV or re-set a high water mark. In 2011, Halloran established the physical oil trading firm, Pharos Energy Ltd., which was then sold in 2014. In 2000, Halloran acquired a stake in Aton Capital Group and subsequently transformed it into a top emerging markets investment bank that was later sold to UniCredit Bank for $424 million.
Document 7: Mehraj Mattoo: Mehraj Mattoo (महराज मट्टू ) is a British investment banker, economist and author; currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Asset Management. According to the UK and Cayman Islands company records, Commonwealth Asset Management is majority owned by NR Investments, the investment vehicle of the Rothschild Family. Before co-founding Commonwealth, Dr. Mattoo was Global Head of Asset Management at Commerzbank AG, leading one of the largest hedge fund and private equity groups globally (Investhedge 2009; The Billion Dollar Club). Prior to Commerzbank, Dr. Mattoo was the Managing Director of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank AG, the second largest bank in Germany. In the mid-1990s, Dr. Mattoo co-founded the first fund derivatives group in the City at BNP Paribas, the largest French/global bank by assets. He is widely credited for pioneering the use of structured products on alternative investments, especially hedge funds, that helped attract institutional assets to the hedge fund industry and contributed to its explosive growth over the following decade. In the early 1990s, Dr. Mattoo established and led the Structured Products business at NatWest Markets, the investment banking arm of Britain's largest bank, National Westminster Bank, now part of RBS Group and led an educational effort aimed at promoting responsible use of derivatives by corporations and institutional investors.
Document 8: Johnson Financial Group: Johnson Financial Group, Inc is the holding company of Johnson Bank, Johnson Insurance, as well as Swiss banking company; Banque Franck, Galland & Cie. It has an estimated AUM of $4 billion and is the financial services subsidiary of the larger Johnson Family Enterprises Group of Companies. The company was founded in 1970 but wasn't incorporated until 1989 and has grown from a single bank holding company to a global organization providing a full range of financial services to businesses and individuals. Johnson Financial Group employs 1100 people and has over 40 locations in Wisconsin and Arizona. Helen Johnson-Leipold, one of Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr.'s 4 children, serves as chairman of the company. The company also had equity in Cayman Island-based TransOcean Bank & Trust, Ltd.
Document 9: John Thain: John Alexander Thain (born May 26, 1955) is an American businessman, investment banker, and former chairman and CEO of the CIT Group.
Document 10: Saxo Bank: Saxo Bank is a Danish investment bank specializing in online trading and investment. It was founded as a brokerage firm in 1992, under the name Midas Fondsmæglerselskab, by Lars Seier Christensen, Kim Fournais and Marc Hauschildt. The name was changed to Saxo when the company obtained a banking license in 2001. Saxo offers trading through its online platforms in Forex, stocks, CFDs, futures, funds, bonds and futures spreads. The company functions as an online broker with a bank license, without offering traditional banking products. According to Saxo, roughly half of its activities are derived from partnerships with institutional trading partners. More than 100 financial institutions globally service their end clients with Saxo Bank's platforms on White Label basis
Document 11: John Hailer: John Thomas Hailer (born 1960) is an American financial services executive, who recently retired in April 2017 as President and Chief Executive Officer of Natixis Global Asset Management – The Americas & Asia. Natixis Global Asset Management, also known as NGAM, is a subsidiary of Natixis, a French bank.
Document 12: NYSE Euronext: NYSE Euronext, Inc. was a Euro-American multinational financial services corporation that operated multiple securities exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext and NYSE Arca (formerly known as ArcaEx). NYSE merged with Archipelago Holdings on March 7, 2006, forming NYSE Group, Inc. On April 4, 2007, NYSE Group, Inc. merged with Euronext N.V. to form the first global equities exchange, with its headquarters in Lower Manhattan. The components were then part of IntercontinentalExchange, although it has now spun off Euronext.
Document 13: American Bank of Investments (Albania): American Bank of Investments operates in the Albanian market since 1999. Original known as Emporiki Bank, a local branch of Greece's Emporiki Bank Group in March 2010 it became part of France's Crédit Agricole Group when it acquired 100% stake at the Greek parent company. In December 2015 Crédit Agricole Albania Bank SHA changed its name to American Bank of Investments and became a subsidiary of NCH Capital. The bank provides products and services to individuals and small enterprises in Albania.
Document 14: Sean Healey: Sean Michael Healey (born 1961) is the chairman and chief executive officer of Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG), a global asset management firm whose affiliates in aggregate managed approximately $638 billion as of March 31, 2015.
Document 15: Ralph Hamers: Ralph A. J. G. Hamers (born 1966) is a Dutch businessman, the chief executive officer (CEO) of ING Group, a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation, and a Fortune Global 500 company.
ground_truth: President and Chief Executive Officer