AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Simon Flood as head of AXA IM Asia-Pacific. Based in Hong Kong and effective from August 1 2014, he will report to Laurent Seyer, global head of client group. He will be responsible for the continued development of AXA IM in the Asia-Pacific region including Japan. He will also be a member of AXA IM’s executive committee. Flood succeeds Jean-Pierre Leoni who, after four years in Asia, is returning to France where he will lead AXA IM’s client management group.

 

Flood is a veteran of the investment management industry. Prior to joining AXA IM, he was chief investment officer at Lion Global Investors and before that, held a number of senior investment roles in the asset management industry, covering both the listed, developed and emerging, as well as private, equity markets. He has held a number of senior regional positions including leading the Asia-Pacific ex Japan business for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers.

 

Originally from New Zealand, Flood spent 15 years in London, followed by five years in Hong Kong before moving to Singapore in 2009.