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AXA — Board/Management Information 2022
Feb 3, 2022
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Board/Management Information
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Paris, February 3,2022
Andrew Wallace-Barnett isappointed Chief ComplianceOfficerof AXA Anu Venkataramanjoins the Group as Head of Investor Relations
AXA announces the appointment of Andrew Wallace-Barnett, currently Head of Investor Relations, as Group Chief Compliance Officer. He will succeed Ian Johnson who has decided to retire after a successful 30-year career in the Group. Andrew will report to George Stansfield, Group Deputy CEO, General Secretary, and a Member of the AXA Group Management Committee.
Andrew Wallace-Barnett will be replaced by Anu Venkataraman, who joins from AllianceBernstein L.P. where she has built a very rich and successful career. She is currently Portfolio Manager as well as Senior Research Analyst covering financial stocks in the US and International Markets. She will take her new role on March 1st. In addition, she will take on a senior role within the Group Strategy Department, with a double reporting line to Alban de Mailly Nesle, Group Chief Financial Officer, and Georges Desvaux, Group Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, both members of AXA's Management Committee.
Biographies
Andrew Wallace-Barnett has a BSc in Mathematics and Information Science from the University of Tasmania. He joined AXA in 1988 as a Corporate Actuary at AXA Australia (previously National Mutual), where he qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. He pursued these functions as he joined AXA's headquarters in Paris in 1998. In 2005, he became Chief Risk Officer of AXA France and, in 2008, he moved to the United States as Chief Risk Officer of AXA US. Andrew has been Head of Investor Relations for the Group since 2014.
Anu Venkataraman has a Master of Business Administration, Finance and Accounting from the University of Rochester, NY. Anu then joined AllianceBernstein as an analyst covering International and Emerging market financials, in 1993. She then assumed coverage of the global insurance sector and pursued on to work on European Banks and Insurance and finally overseeing US Large-cap Financials, US Small & Mid-cap Insurance and European Insurance until today. She remains today Co-Portfolio Manager of the International Strategic Equities portfolio, Senior Research Analyst and Sector Leader for Global Financials and research coordinator for the International Strategic Core portfolio.
ABOUT THE AXA GROUP
The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 153,000 employees serving 105 million clients in 54 countries. In 2020, IFRS revenues amounted to Euro 96.7 billion and underlying earnings to Euro 4.3 billion. AXA had Euro 1,032 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2020.
The AXA ordinary share is listed on compartment A of Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol CS (ISN FR 0000120628 – Bloomberg: CS FP – Reuters: AXAF.PA). AXA's American Depository Share is also quoted on the OTC QX platform under the ticker symbol AXAHY.
The AXA Group is included in the main international SRI indexes, such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and FTSE4GOOD.
It is a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.
This press release and the regulated information made public by AXA pursuant to article L. 451-1-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code and articles 222-1 et seq. of the Autorité des marchés financiers' General Regulation are available on the AXA Group website (axa.com).
THIS PRESS RELEASE IS AVAILABLE ON THE AXA GROUP WEBSITE axa.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Investor Relations: +33.1.40.75.48.42 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Individual Shareholder Relations: +33.1.40.75.48.43
Media Relations:
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Corporate Responsibility strategy: axa.com/en/about-us/strategy-commitments SRI ratings: axa.com/en/investor/sri-ratings-ethical-indexes