AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets has appointed Sébastien Herzog as global chief financial office, chief operations officer and corporate secretary.

AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets has appointed Sébastien Herzog as global chief financial office, chief operations officer and corporate secretary.

Based in Paris, Herzog will look after AXA IM - Real Assets’ performance across all financial, operational, risk and compliance aspects of the business. He will be responsible for contributing to AXA IM - Real Assets development and growth through implementing strategic initiatives in conjunction with the management board.

He will also become a member of the AXA IM - Real Assets’ management board, reporting to Pierre Vaquier.

Herzog has been global head of internal audit at AXA IM since 2012, having originally joined what was then AXA Real Estate in 1998 as corporate finance manager. In 2002 he moved to the corporate finance department of AXA IM, where he was promoted to head of the function in 2004.