MBA from INSEAD and Telecom Engineering degree from ESO, France.
Ivan Bernard-Brunel joined AXA Private Equity in March 2005.
Prior to joining AXA Private Equity, he was a Principal in the London office of a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm, responsible for investment opportunities in the communications and semiconductor markets in Europe. Before that, he was director of M&A and business development with Lucent Technologies, NJ, USA.
He started his career as manager of turn-key projects with Alcatel in South East Asia and ran the Indonesian operations of Alcatel CIT.
Master's degree in Financial Engineering from ESF Cergy-Pontoise.
Olivier Decannière joined AXA Private Equity in early 2001.
He began his career at Société Générale in the M&A division (1996). He subsequently joined the French American Chamber of Commerce in New York as Head of Business Development and Investor Relations from 1997-1998, before becoming Investment Manager for the Renaissance Investissements fund specialising in Recovery operations (1999-2000).
Master’s degree in Financial Engineering from ESLSCA Paris and ESGF Paris (School of Management and Finance).
Franck Nguyen joined AXA Private Equity in 1997.
He began his career at GAN in 1995 as a Financial Analyst in the department specialised in investments in unlisted companies.
DESS from the University of Paris Nanterre - Master’s degree from ESSEC.
Xavier Belloir joined AXA Private Equity in 2001 after completing an internship at Natexis Banques Populaires in 2000 as Assistant Consultant.
ESSEC, member of the French CFA Society.
Grégoire Guinot joined AXA Private Equity in 2005.
Previously, he had been an Asset Allocation Specialist in the investment department of AXA France since 2001. He also completed internships at Arthur Andersen, BNP Paribas and Société Générale.
DESS in Financial Instruments and a master's degree in Financial Engineering from ESF (engineering school in Cergy-Pontoise).
After gaining initial experience in international financing in industry, Glenn Richard joined AXA Private Equity in 2000.
ESSEC and Master in Finance from Graduate School of Management
Cyril Auger joined AXA Private Equity in Paris in May 2007 as Investment Manager within the Fund of Funds team.
Prior to joining AXA Private Equity, he has been since 2004 with BNP Paribas as Senior Associate in charge of mergers and acquisitions. He previously worked with Calyon as Manager in Mergers and Acquisitions.
ESSEC (Master of Finance) and DESS Management from University Panthéon Sorbonne
Jérémie thierry joined AXA Private Equity in Paris on November 2005 as Investment Analyst within the Funds of Funds team.
He has been with the Paris funds of funds team as intern from May 2003 to August 2004 and from May 2005 to November 2005. Previously, he was intern with the Finance department of AC Nielsen.
HEC
Mathieu Lebrun joined AXA Private Equity on november 2004 as Analyst within the Fund of Funds Team.
Previously,he has achieved several internships, in audit at Mazars & Guérard (2003), in finance at Vivendi Universal (2004) and the Socially Responsible Investment within AXA Investment Managers (2004).
Master’s degree in International Business from ESSEC Business School (France) and Thunderbird University (US), and a graduate degree from ISTM (Management of Biotechnology, major in Finance).
Ingmar Vallano joined AXA Private Equity in March 2006 as Investment Analyst in the Venture Team, after a 9 months internship in this same team.
Ingmar did several internships in the finance, strategy and biotech fields: Corporate Consulting Group (US), Xerfi (France), UNAM and Laboratorios Silanes (Mexico).
Ecole de Management de Lyon - Master in Entrepreneurship and Ecole des Mines (Engineering in Thermal, Fluid and Energy Sciences).
Arnaud Mercier joined AXA Private Equity on July 2006 in Paris as Analyst within the Fund of Fund team.
He has been working since October 2005 on the e-front project within the Administration & Finance team and in particular on the cash-flow projections.He previously held various internships with N-GHY, Solelec Caraibes, Chantiers de l’Atlantique.
ESSEC, graduate in Business and Management. Licence in Finance and Tax from the University Paris Dauphine and exchange programmes at St John’s University – New York and at the Cordoba University (Argentina).
Benjamin Saulnier joined AXA Private Equity on December 2007 as Analyst in the Fund of Fund team where he had been intern with the team since July 2006.
He has held various internships in finance and private equity: PAI Partners, BNP Paribas.
ESSEC
Caroline Letellier joined AXA Private Equity in Paris in September 2007 as Analyst, within the Funds of Funds team, after a six-month internship in 2006 and another internship in the Singapore team.
Before joining AXA Private Equity, she carried out internships within IPAC Sydney (3 months).
Before joining AXA Private Equity, Kévin spent one year within the Trading and Investment Banking department in HSBC.
He joined AXA Private Equity in Paris on November 12th 2007 as an Analyst, within the Funds of Funds team, after a six-month internship.
HEC Montreal and Institut Universitaire de Technologie in Montpellier.
Alain Berdugo joined AXA Private Equity Asia in 2006 where he was seconded from the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec for a period of three years.
He was also Director of Fondinvest Capital in Paris from 2003 to 2005. He established the Asia Equity Infrastructure Fund in Bangkok from 1996 to 2003.
MBA from INSEAD and degree from Cornell University, USA.
Before joining AXA Private Equity Asia in 2006, Jenhao Han acquired professional experience in companies such as Arthur Andersen (US), Deloitte, Management Solutions Group (USA/Japan) and H Cube Consulting (HK/Japan/China).
National University of Singapore
Ian Wee joined AXA Private Equity in Singapore in January 2008 as an Analyst within the Funds of Funds team.
Prior to joining AXA Private Equity, he worked within Fortis Bank in Rotterdam and in Singapore between August 2006 and November 2007. He also worked at Hudson Global Resources for 5 months and at Citi Markets & Banking in Singapore for 3 months.
MBA ESSEC and Cornell University
Alexandre Monteux joined AXA Private Equity in 2005 within the LBO Small Cap team.He then moved into the Fund of Funds team, in Paris, London and Singapore. He has also participated to the Valuation Department expertise.
Bachelor of Commerce, Finance Major, from McGill University and Accounting Major from Ryerson University (Toronto), Chartered Accountant.
Mark Benedetti joined AXA Private Equity in 2006.
He previously worked as an Associate with KPMG Corporate Finance, where he focused on mergers, acquisitions, and capital raising advisory. Before Corporate Finance, he worked as a Senior Accountant with KPMG. Previously, he joined KPMG in 2002. While attending university, he interned with Bell Canada Enterprises’ Finance and Treasury Department.
ESSEC business school
Charles Goulet joined AXA Private Equity in September 2008 as an Analyst within the Fund of Funds team in London where he already achieved a six-month internship.
Prior to joining AXA Private Equity, he carried out a six-month internship within Neo Capital Private Equity in London and a four-month internship within HSBC Asset Management in India.
Bocconi University of MilanNew York University & University of Southern California
Before joining AXA Private Equity, Luca Sigismondi worked since 2006 within the investment bank, Bank of America in London and Milan. He also spent one year within L.E.K. Consulting.
He has joined AXA Private Equity on September, 2008 as an Analyst within the Fund of Funds team in Milan.
Master’s degree from ESSEC - DESS in Banking and Finance.
Before joining AXA Private Equity in 1999, Benoît Verbrugghe began his career in 1998 working in M&A at a consulting firm.
ESCP-EAP (MS Fiinance) and Masters in Business Law from Paris Assas II University, International Exchange program at the St. Johns University (New York).
Marie-Victoire Rozé joined AXA Private Equity as Investment Analyst in Paris on October 2005 after a 8 month internship within the Fund of Funds team.
She held various internships in Paris: JP. Morgan (Investment Banking) M&A Department, Banque pour le Développement des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises, Keolis and in New York: Merrill Lynch (private banking) & Nike Communications.
Degree in Business Administration from the University of Frankfurt
Jan Philipp Schmitz joined AXA Private Equity Germany in 2005.
Previously, he worked at Ernst & Young (transaction advisory services) and Arthur Andersen, specializing in financial institutions.
Exchange term at the Schulich School of Business of York University, Toronto and B.A. in Business Administration (Finance – Marketing) from University of St Gallen (Switzerland)
Manuel Häusler joined AXA Private Equity Germany in 2007 after a 5 month internship in the Funds of Funds team.
He has held internships in marketing in St-Gallen with Helvetia Patria and Festland.
Master of Management from Université Paris IX-Dauphine and post-graduate MS in Finance from ESSEC.
Vladimir Colas joined AXA Private Equity in 2003.
He previously worked in Exane BNP Paribas’ sell-side equity research department and completed internships with Hertz France’s corporate finance department and Divento.com, where he was Assistant to the CFO. Vladimir holds a
MBA from Wharton School, MA from the Institut Lauder
Luigi Tommasini joined AXA Private Equity UK in 2004 from Apax Partners, where he was Senior Associate.
He started his career as a Consultant at McKinsey & Company in Italy, Brazil and the US.
Master’s degree in Modern Languages, Edinburgh University.
Sebastien Bowen joined AXA Private Equity UK in 2002, after completing an internship at AXA Private Equity Paris in 2000-2001 in the secondary Fund of Funds team.
Reims Management School, IUT University of Cachan.
Armelle Goury joined AXA Private Equity UK in 2005 after completing various internships at Latin American Asset Manager Advisors, Givenchy, Peugeot and Bit Formacion Informatica.
MBA from Wharton School and Luigi Bocconi University of Milan.
Before joining AXA Private Equity in 2007, Stefano Mion worked at Merrill Lynch as an Associate in the European Leveraged Finance Team in London, UBS Investment Bank in Milan in the Corporate Finance Team after 3 years spent at JP Morgan in London.
He performed several internships with Lazard Frères & Co. in New York and Goldman Sachs in London.
University of Fribourg - Master of LawAccredited Swiss attorney-at-law
Martin Kessi joined AXA Private Equity as a Senior Investment Manager in 2008 and is based in Zurich.
Prior to joining AXA Private Equity, he had been working for four years as an Investment Advisor within Nanodimension in Zurich.
