AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets appoints new global head of business development

AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets has appointed Florence Dard as global head of business development.

Dard will lead a newly created business development department, which will bring relevant internal teams together as a single business unit. Based in Paris, Dard will report to Isabelle Scemama, CEO of AXA IM - Real Assets and join the management board.

The newly created business development department, which Dard will lead, has been created to drive the business development and strategic development initiatives of AXA IM - Real Assets in a comprehensive and fully integrated manner globally. It will comprise the client capital group, research and strategy, marketing and communication and product development teams.

Dard has an extensive experience of working within AXA Group, having spent more than 18 years in various positions including 13 years within AXA Investment Managers as relationship manager for AXA France, head of corporate sales for pension and savings schemes and institutional sales manager. In her latest role as head of France within client group, Florence led the French sales, marketing and client services teams and contributed to the strategic development of AXA IM across all client segments in France. In her role, she notably contributed to the capital raising efforts from French institutional clients for AXA IM - Real Assets’ real estate and infrastructure equity and debt funds as well as the successful development of unit-linked products.

Dard has also strong international sales experience, consolidated during the five years she spent between 2010 and 2015 at Edmond de Rothschild AM where she held several positions including Head of European Institutional Sales and Sovereign Wealth Funds.