Dominique Senequier joined AXA Group early in 1996 and is the founder of AXA Private Equity, the investment buyout arm of the Group. She has $27 billion in assets under her control, and makes direct investments in companies and among various AXA funds or funds. She’s been highly successful at AXA, growing the AXA Private Equity from a single $140 million fund in 1997 to 50 plus funds today. Senequier was one of the first women to study at France’s prestigious École Polytechnique, and has been listed by Forbes magazine as #53 of The 100 Most Powerful Women in the world in 2008, and as #32 in Fortune’s International Power 50 for the same year. She’s a forward thinking idealist, who believes in sharing the wealth at private equity firms with all members of the staff. Her suggestion that there ought to be a law to that effect stirred up a bit of controversy, but she’s rethought that position, and believes that private equity firms can establish fair and equitable splits of profits among staff without government interference, something she’s taken steps to do herself at AXA, leading the industry by example.
Dominique Senequier joined AXA Group early in 1996 and is the founder of AXA Private Equity, the investment buyout arm of the Group. She has $27 billion in assets under her control, and makes direct investments in companies and among various AXA funds or funds. She’s been highly successful at AXA, growing the AXA Private Equity from a single $140 million fund in 1997 to 50 plus funds today. Senequier was one of the first women to study at France’s prestigious École Polytechnique, and has been listed by Forbes magazine as #53 of The 100 Most Powerful Women in the world in 2008, and as #32 in Fortune’s International Power 50 for the same year. She’s a forward thinking idealist, who believes in sharing the wealth at private equity firms with all members of the staff. Her suggestion that there ought to be a law to that effect stirred up a bit of controversy, but she’s rethought that position, and believes that private equity firms can establish fair and equitable splits of profits among staff without government interference, something she’s taken steps to do herself at AXA, leading the industry by example.