Meet the board

Here you will find who is on the UK Board. A short biography for each board member is also included.

Anthony Hamilton - Chairman

Born 1941, joined the Board as a Non-executive Director in 1997 and was appointed Chairman in September 2000.

He has been Chairman of AXA Equity & Law plc since 1993. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of AXA and a director of AXA Financial Inc.(USA).

Formerly Chief Executive of the investment bank Fox-Pitt, Kelton.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Investment (Chairman)
• Remuneration and Nomination (Chairman)

 

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Nicolas Moreau - Group Chief Executive

Born 1965, was appointed to the Board in July 2006. He is Group Chief Executive of AXA UK and Ireland, and a member of the AXA Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Board of the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

Nicolas joined AXA in 1991 as Vice-President of the Finance Department and was appointed Senior Vice-President of the AXA Group Finance Department in 1994. In 1997 Nicolas joined AXA Investment Managers and in March 2000 he became Chief Operating Officer of AXA Investment Managers, and Vice-Chairman of AXA Rosenberg in January 2001. He also co-ordinated the private equity business as well as the relationship between AXA Investment Managers and the insurance companies of the AXA Group. In April 2002, he was promoted to Chief Executive of AXA Investment Managers and, following his appointment as Group Chief Executive of AXA UK, Nicolas became Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of AXA Investment Managers.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Investment

 

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Jonathan Asquith - Non-executive Director

Born 1956, he was appointed to the Board as a Non-executive Director in March 2009. He is a member of the Investment Committee. Before joining the Board, he spent thirty years in financial services in investment banking and asset management with Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank and Schroders, where he served as CFO and later Vice Chairman until 2008.

He is also a Non-executive director of Ashmore Group plc, the emerging market fund manager.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Investment

 

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Ian Brimecome - Non-executive Director

Born 1953, was appointed Non-executive Director in March 2007. He was a Non-executive Director of Winterthur UK Financial Services Group Ltd until December 2006. He has over 30 years' experience of the financial services industry in a wide variety of roles. He has advised on more than eighty merger and acquisition transactions in the insurance and asset management industries in more than twenty countries. He is an Associate of the Institute of Financial Services and a Member of the Institute of Management. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of Fox-Pitt Kelton Ltd and a non-executive director of The Equitable Life Assurance Society.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Investment
• With Profits

 

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Henri de Castries - Non-executive Director

Born 1954, graduated from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and Ecole National d'Administration and was appointed a Non-executive Director in 1997.

He is Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of AXA.

 

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Bob Dench - Non-executive Director

Born in 1950, was appointed Non-executive Director in September 2004. He was line Managing Director of Barclays General Insurance, Life and Mortgage businesses before leaving the organisation at the end of 2003.

He is also a Non-executive Director of Paragon Group plc.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Audit and Compliance
• Remuneration and Nomination

 

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Denis Duverne - Non-executive Director

Born 1953, graduated from the Ecole des Hautes Commerciales and Ecole Nationale d'Administration.

He was appointed an Alternate Director in 1997 and a Non-executive Director in his own right in September 2000. He is also a member of the Management Board of AXA.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Remuneration and Nomination

 

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Paul Evans - Executive Director

Born 1965, was appointed Chief Executive of AXA Life in May 2003. Previously he was the Group Finance Director of AXA UK, responsible for finance, strategy, treasury and taxation.

Paul joined AXA in January 2000 from PricewaterhouseCoopers and was appointed to the Board in November 2001. He is also a member of the AXA UK Executive Committee. Paul is a member of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Life Insurance Committee and Chairman of the West of England leadership team for Business in the Community.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Investment

 

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Keith Gibbs - Executive Director

Born 1958, was appointed to the AXA UK Board in February 2004. He is Chief Executive of AXA PPP healthcare being appointed in November 2001 and also has responsibility for the direct life business (AXA Sun Life Direct). He is also a member of the AXA UK Executive Committee.

He formerly held a wide range of senior positions at Sun Life of Canada, Sentinel Life, Citibank and Lloyds TSB.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Investment

 

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Philippe Maso y Guell Rivet - Executive Director

Born 1966, was appointed to the Board in May 2003 and was Group Finance Director of AXA UK from May 2003 to April 2008, responsible for finance, strategy, risk management and asset management. He was appointed Chief Executive of AXA Insurance in April 2008.

Previously, Philippe was head of Group Corporate Finance and Risk Management for AXA in Paris. He joined the Group in 1997 following the merger with UAP.

He is a member of the Financial Regulation and Taxation Committee for the Association of British Insurers.  

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Investment

 

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François de Méneval - Alternate Director

Born 1963, has been an Alternate Director of the Company (alternate to Mr. de Castries and Mr. Duverne) since December 2004. Mr de Méneval is a Senior Vice President of AXA within the Business Support & Development team.

He is responsible for AXA's relationship with AXA UK and Ireland, AXA France, AXA Canada, AXA Corporate Solutions and AXA Assistance. He was previously General Manager, Group Strategy of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited, and has been a Board Member of AXA Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and of various AXA companies in Asia.

Prior to joining AXA in 1994 Mr de Méneval was an auditor with KPMG and worked for the French investment bank BGP.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Audit and Compliance

 

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Robin Monro-Davies - Non-executive Director

Born 1940, was appointed to the Board as a Non-executive Director in May 2002.

He was formerly Chief Executive Officer of Fitch Ratings. He is Chairman of Mergermarket and North American Banks Fund, and a Director of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited, HSBC Bank plc and Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Audit and Compliance Committee (Chairman)
• With Profits

 

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John O'Neill

Born 1954, was appointed to the Board in February 2004 and is Chief Executive of AXA Ireland (previously Guardian PMPA Insurance) and a member of the AXA UK Executive Committee.

He has worked for Guardian PMPA Insurance since 1990. His career also includes several years with Guardian Royal Exchange (GRE), Coyle Hamilton and AIB Insurance Services.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Investment

 

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Ian Robinson

Born 1969, was appointed to the AXA UK Board in March 2008. He joined AXA in November 2007 as AXA UK Group Business Risk Director and became Group Finance and Risk Director in April 2008.

Ian joined from HSBC where he was Global Chief Operating Officer, Insurance; having previously worked for Deloitte & Touche. During his 12 years at HSBC he also spent a year on secondment with the UK Financial Services Authority.

Membership of AXA UK Committees:

• Investment