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AXA Group is an important global player whose ambition is to attain leadership in its core Financial Protection business.
Financial Protection involves offering our customers - individuals as well as small, mid-size and large businesses - a wide range of products and services that meet their insurance, protection, savings, retirement and financial planning needs throughout their lives. AXA's strategy is to combine organic and external growth to meet the challenge of operational excellence in all of the following areas:

Product innovation
Core business expertise
Distribution
Quality of service
Productivity

Leveraging the resources of AXA Group, and in accordance with AXA's values and commitments, 174 935 people are working daily to execute this strategy and to serve 67 million clients.
In order to fully meet all the financial protection customer needs of European clients,AXA has a retail banking activity as part of the AXA Bank Europe structure.
This activity is fully integrated within the group as it is a key element for the life & savings business.
You can learn more about the group by visiting www.axa.com

A little history of AXA Bank Europe

2010	Launch of commercial activity of AXA Bank in Czech Republic
2009	Launch of commercial activity of AXA Bank in Switzerland
2009	Ella Bank in Hungary, acquired in 2007, becomes a branch of AXA Bank Europe
2008	AXA Life Europe Hedging Services joined AXA Bank Europe to provide financial engineering competencies to insurance companies of the Group and AXA Bank Europe
2007	Creation of the European bank platform AXA Bank Europe on December 3rd.
2002	AXA Royale Belge becomes AXA Belgium on the 1st of March. The bank side remains AXA Bank Belgium, abbreviated AXA Bank.
2000	Creation of AXA Bank Belgium (resulting from the merger between Ippa and Anhyp) on January 1st.
1999	AXA takes over Anhyp.
1999	Merger between Royale Belge and AXA Belgium.
1990	AXA Belgium is created.
1986	Royale Belge takes over Ippa.
1903	Foundation of “Société hypothécaire belge et Caisse d’épargne” (later renamed Ippa).
1881	Foundation of “Caisse hypothécaire anversoise” (becoming Anhyp later on).

Governance:
AXA Bank Europe has a governance structure consisting of a Supervisory Board, with a pure supervisory function and a Management Board with exclusive responsibility of effective management. This structure illustrates and clearly organizes the split between supervisory and management accountabilities.

AXA Bank Europe Management Board members:

Jef Van In François Robinet Patrick Vaneeckhout Irina Buchmann Philippe Eyben

AXA banks' CEO's across Europe:

Belgium
Patrick Vaneeckhout
Czech Republic
Petr Skok
France
Pierre Janin
Germany
Martin Vogl
Hungary

Switzerland
Urs Widmer


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Jef van In CEO AXA Bank Europe and Executive Member of the Board of Directors

Born on May 9th 1967

Training: Jef holds a Master degree in Commercial engineering from KULeuven and an Executive MBA from the Flanders Business School in Antwerp.

Working experience: Jef has a background of more than 17 years in retail and corporate banking, both in Belgium and in Eastern Europe. He spent the early part of his career in Corporate Banking at Bank Brussel Lambert (1993) and Sumitomo Bank Brussels (1995) where he was responsible for marketing Corporates, Institutional clients and SME’s in the Benelux.
During the past 10 years, Jef has been a retail banker at ING, first as head of retail and private banking operations of the Brussels North Region before taking up national responsibilities for savings and investments, branch design and roll out.
From 2006 to 2009, in the capacity of CEO ING Retail Banking Ukraine, he led the ING retail start-up in Ukraine, its further development and later on the closing of the retail bank.
Back in Belgium in 2009, Jef became responsible for the strategic vision and implementation of the ING Belgium online corporate distribution platform redesign

Vice-Chairman of the Management Board, AXA Bank Europe
Chief Investment Officer, AXA Bank Europe

Born on January 30st, 1967 in France

Training:
- Master’s degree at Ecole Nationale de la statistique et de l’Administration Economique (section Finance et Actuariat), Paris, France
- Graduated member of Institut des Actuaires Français et de la Fédération française des Actuaires
- Master of Science «Economic Engineering and Financial Management » at Stanford University, Ca, USA
Working experience: François Robinet started his career as Consultant for Coopers & Lybrand and joined AXA Group in 1994 as assistant vice-president for Treasury & Finance at Group level and later on successively became Vice President and Director of this entity. In 1999, François was appointed Director of planning in the AXA Rosenberg Group and became CEO in 2001. He eventually became Group Chief Risk Officer in 2003 before joining the AXA Bank Europe structure.

Patrick Vaneeckhout Vice-Chairman of the Management Board, AXA Bank Europe
Chairman of the Management Committee, AXA Bank Belgium

Born on January 1st, 1956 in Belgium

Training: Master’s degree in Business administration, with a major in Finance

Working experience: Patrick Vaneeckhout has a huge banking experience more specifically in credits in Artesia group (Bacob) as head of credits, responsible for the credit policy and for various credit-related projects. Patrick joined AXA Group in 2000 as Director of Credits and became Chief Executive Officer of AXA Bank Belgium in 2005.

Irina Buchmann Chief Financial Officer AXA Bank Europe

Born on November 22, 1977 in Austin Texas USA

Training:
- Master of Business Administration at European Business School
- International University, Oestrich-Winkel, Buenos Aires, Göteborg
Working experience: Irina Buchmann has largely built her experience within the AXA Group, successively in Cologne, Paris, Belgium and Switzerland, focusing essentially in Finance and Risk management. She started her career in Cologne as executive assistant to the CFO, before moving to the AXA Group in Paris in 2004. She joined the Northern, Central and Eastern Europe as Deputy Director of the Finance office in 2006. In 2008, she became Chief Financial Officer of AXA Bank Europe, Winterthur Branch, and member of the Management Board before joining AXA Bank Europe head-office in March 2010.

Philippe Eyben Vice-Chairman of the Management committee, AXA Bank Belgium

Born on March 26th, 1956, in Belgium

Training: Master’s degree in Law

Working experience: Very early on his career, Philippe joined Royale Belge where he filled various positions in the insurance business. In 1994, Philippe set up the regional district of Charleroi for Retail customers and took the lead of it. In 1996, he becomes Regional Director for Brabant. After the merger with AXA in 1999, Philippe took the lead of the operational management of the P& C business. In 2002, Philippe moved to the Netherlands where he was appointed CEO of AXA Schade, the P&C branch of AXA Netherlands. Philippe switched from the insurance to the bank business in 2004 and became Director of bank operations and a member of the executive committee of AXA Bank Belgium.

Patrick Vaneeckhout Chief Executive Officer of AXA Bank Belgium

Born on January 1st, 1956 in Belgium

Training: Master’s degree in Business administration, with a specialization in finance

Working experience: Patrick Vaneeckhout has a huge banking experience more specifically in credits in de Artesia group (Bacob) as head of credits, responsible for the credit policy and for various credit related projects. Patrick joined the AXA Group in 2000 as Director of Credits and became Chief Executive Officer of AXA Bank Belgium in 2005.

Born on February 7th 1967 in the Czech Republic

Training:
- Czech Technical University – Electrical Engineering Faculty – Cybernetics, Prague
- Graduate school of Banking, Colorado, USA
- Société générale Top Management Development Program, Paris, Prague

Working experience:
Petr Skok has accomplished his entire career at Kommercni banka before joining AXA Bank Europe in 2009. At Kommercni banka, he occupied several positions and gained experience especially in the Cards business and in Payment operations. Moreover, as Deputy Executive Director of Project Organization and Management, he has managed large strategic projects in all their dimensions.

Pierre Janin Born on April 13th, 1966 in France

Training:
- Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) - Option : Corporate Finance
- Centre des Hautes Etudes d’Assurance (CHEA)

Working experience:
- 1991-1995: Manager in charge of international operations and Reinsurance Team, AXA Holding, Group Central Finance Team
- 1995-1998: Assistant to Regional Manager, AXA Holding, Pacific Asia Life Entity
- 1998-2002: Deputy Director Paris-North-East Region, Deputy Director of the S network, Sales Manager North Region, AXA Conseil, Sales Networks
- 2002- : AXA Banque France Development & Distribution Manager then Customer Relations & Network Manager
- since 2007: Chief Executive Officer AXA Banque France and Chairman AXA Banque Financement

Martin Vogl Born on September 12th, 1973 in Germany

Training:
- 1993-1996: degree in economics, university of cooperative education Heidenheim, Germany
- 1997-1998: Master´s degree in business administration with a major in international banking, Temple University Paris, Philadelphia, Tokio

Working experience:
- 1996-1997: Investment adviser, Dresdner Bank AG
- 1998-2001: Consultant and Senior Consultant, Arthur Andersen
- 2001-2004: Consultant and Head of corporate development, AXA Service AG
- 2005-2007: Head of AXA Private Management, AXA Service AG
- 2008-2009: Head of investments and At Retirement, AXA Bank AG
- since October 2009: Chief Executive Officer, AXA Bank AG in Germany

Born on May 5th, 1961

Training:
- Kuwait State University, Kuwait City
- Institute of International Relations, Moscow, Russia

Working experience:
- 1999-2003 ELLA First Mortgage Commercial Bank, Managing Director
- since 2003 ELLA First Mortgage Commercial Bank, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

Born in Switzerland

Training:
- Master's degree in Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Master of Business Administration, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France

Working experience:
- 1996-2000 Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2001 Head Intermediaries Products & Services, UBS, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2002 Head Business Development Intermediaries Business Asia and Americas International, UBS, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2003-2006 Head Wealth Planning Life Insurance Sales, UBS, Zurich, Switzerland - CEO of UBS Life, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2007 Member of the Management Board of AXA Winterthur - Head of Financial Services
- June 2008 CEO of AXA Bank in Switzerland and Member of the Management Board of AXA Winterthur