AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets (AXA IMRA) has strengthened its global management team with two senior appointments having hired John O’Driscoll as European head of transactions, replacing Laurent Jacquemin (pictured), who has been promoted to head of Asia Pacific.
Both appointments are expected to be effective by 1 January 2018.
As European head of Transactions, John O’Driscoll, will report directly to AXA IMRA’s CEO, Isabelle Scemama, and will oversee the sourcing, selection and execution of the acquisitions that AXA IMRA undertakes each year on behalf of clients.
Based in London, O’Driscoll will manage AXA IMRA’s 30-strong European transactions team which has completed around €15 bn of transactions over the past three years. As part of his role, he will contribute to the investment strategies for both AXA IMRA and its clients and will be a member of its Investment Committee.
He has over 15-years’ experience in international real estate investment banking and investment advisory and joins from global real estate advisory services firm JLL, where he has been CEO of Corporate Finance and head of Mergers & Acquisitions for the EMEA region since 2014.
Prior to JLL, O’Driscoll spent eight years at Deutsche Bank where, having joined as an associate in 2006, he was promoted through to EMEA head of Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging M&A. He joined Deutsche after four years in the EMEA Real Estate Investment Banking team at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Jacquemin is appointed as head of Asia Pacific and will be based at AXA IMRA’s newly relocated Asian hub in Tokyo, Japan, reporting directly to Laurent Lavergne, head of Separate Accounts and responsible for international development in the U.S. and Asia. Jacquemin will be responsible for all of AXA IM - Real Assets’ operations in the Asia Pacific region including overseeing investment, asset management and capital raising activities from the offices in Japan, South Korea and Australia. His promotion also sees him join AXA IMRA’s extended Management Board, alongside Steve McCarthy, head of North America.
He has around 18 years of experience in the real estate industry and joined AXA IMRA in 2001. Prior to his current role as European head of Transactions, Jacquemin was respectively global head of Corporate Finance and head of Corporate Finance UK. He started his career at Ernst & Young working both in Paris and Brussels.
