AXA : announces its new leadership team, focuses its organization on customers and transformation

AXA announced today a series of appointments to form a new management team that will support Thomas Buberl, incoming CEO*, in the definition and implementation of the Group's strategy and management of its global operations.

The new Management Committee, AXA's senior executive governance body, will notably reflect the strategic importance of the Group's interaction with its customers and its transformation ambition. It will reinforce the role of large countries (Large Markets) and Global Business Lines, while the Group's Regions will be repositioned to focus on the development of emerging and smaller markets (Emerging Markets), in Asia and in the rest of the world.

Effective as of July 1st, AXA's Management Committee will be composed of the following 10 members, including Thomas Buberl:

three members of the current Management Committee, with renewed or confirmed roles and responsibilities:

• Jean-Louis Laurent Josi, Chief Executive Officer of AXA Asia,
• Mark Pearson, Chief Executive Officer of AXA US,
• Véronique Weill is appointed Group Chief Customer Officer and Chief Executive Officer of a newly created business line AXA Global Asset Management,

six internally appointed new members:

• Benoît Claveranne is appointed Group Chief Transformation Officer,
• Paul Evans is appointed Chief Executive Officer of AXA Global Life & Savings and of AXA Global Health,
• Gérald Harlin, Group Chief Financial Officer,
• Gaëlle Olivier is appointed Chief Executive Officer of AXA Global P&C,
• Jacques de Peretti is appointed Chief Executive Officer of AXA France,
• George Stansfield is appointed Group General Secretary, with responsibilities including Human Resources.

Peter Kraus, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AB, will continue to be a resource to Thomas Buberl and executives throughout the Group on a wide variety of strategic matters.