Dominique Senequier
{{short description|French businesswoman (born 1953)}}
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École polytechnique
| occupation = Businesswoman
| known for = Founder and president of Ardian
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Dominique Senequier (born 1953) is a French businesswoman. She is president of Ardian (formerly Axa Private Equity), a private equity firm she founded in 1996.{{cite web|url=https://www.ardian-investment.com/en/team|title=website of Ardian, "Management"|website=ardian-investment.com|accessdate=16 August 2018}}
Early life and education
Senequier attended high school at Lycée Thiers in Marseille. She holds a postgraduate degree in Banking and Monetary Economics from the University of Sorbonne.
She was one of the first seven women admitted to the École polytechnique in 1972, the year of its first female intake.Knowledge@Wharton: [http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2976 Axa's Dominque Senequier], published 6 April 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
Career
Senequier began her career as insurance commissioner for the French Ministry of Finance, where she worked from 1975 until 1980.
She worked in reinsurance, international development, and private equity at GAN, a subsidiary of Groupama from 1980 to 1996. She also created and developed the subsidiary GAN Participations.{{cite web|url=http://www.europeanpwn.net/index.php?article_id=1186|title=Home|website=europeanpwn.net|accessdate=16 August 2018}}
In 1996, she joined the Axa Group and founded Axa Private Equity, which became the largest private equity company in Europe with $50 billion of assets under management in 2014.[https://www.altassets.net/private-equity-news/by-news-type/firm-news/ardian-celebrates-first-year-of-independence-by-hitting-50bn-aum.html Alt Assets, Ardian celebrates first year of independence by hitting $50bn AUM, 2 October 2014] In 2013, she announced that the firm was separating from Axa Group; it became Ardian.{{cite web|url=https://www.pehub.com/2013/09/axa-private-equity-completes-spin-out-now-renamed-ardian/|title=Axa Private Equity completes spin-out, now renamed Ardian – PE Hub|date=30 September 2013|website=pehub.com|accessdate=16 August 2018}}
Senequier has more than 410 employees running more than 50 active funds in 12 offices around the world.Business week: [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=99862 Dominique Senequier]{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. Retrieved 18 August 2012.Hymowitz, Carol: [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-22/hewlett-packard-director-senequier-will-depart-amid-turmoil-over-strategy.html Hewlett-Packard Director Senequier Will Depart Amid Turmoil Over Strategy], Bloomberg L.P., published 22 September 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2012.Chassany, Anne-Sylvaine: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110418102422/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_29/b4187042974799.htm Axa's Senequier Prepares to Go Shopping], Business Week, published 8 July 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2012.{{Cite web|title = Ardian opens second U.S. office in San Francisco|url = https://www.pehub.com/2015/10/ardian-opens-second-u-s-office-in-san-francisco/|website = pehub.com|accessdate = 2015-12-03}}
Other activities
=Corporate boards=
- Hermès, Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board (since 2013){{cite web|url=http://finance.hermes.com/en/Corporate-Governance/Management-Bodies/The-Supervisory-Board|title=The Supervisory Board – Management Bodies – Corporate Governance – Hermès financial information|website=finance.hermes.com|accessdate=16 August 2018}}Anne-Sylvaine Chassany (14 December 2014), [https://www.ft.com/content/de8abd2a-73be-11e4-92bc-00144feabdc0 Dominique Senequier: A French financier’s burden] Financial Times.
- Hewlett-Packard, Member of the Board of Directors (–2012)
- Compagnie Industriali Riunite, former Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors{{cite web|url=http://www.cirgroup.com/governance/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/biography/dominique-senequier.html|title=CIR Compagnie Industriali Riunite: Board of Directors|website=cirgroup.com|accessdate=16 August 2018}}
=Non-profit organizations=
Recognition
Senequier was ranked 66th on Fortune
In 2012, Senequier was made a chevalier (knight) of the Legion of Honour.Forbes: [https://www.forbes.com/profile/dominique-senequier/ Dominique Senequier]. Retrieved 18 August 2012.Forbes: [https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/11/power-women-09_Dominique-Senequier_YKD0.html Power Women 2009: Dominique Senequier]. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
In October 2013, she was named in the Bloomberg Top 50 Most Influential People in the world in Money Managers category.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-03/most-influential-50-s-new-names-show-shakeup-bloomberg-markets.html|title=Bloomberg, Most Influential 50s New Names Show Shakeup in Finance, 4 September 2013|publisher=Bloomberg News|accessdate=16 August 2018}}
Personal life
She is a concert-standard pianist who enjoys opera, sometimes travelling to Venice and Salzburg to hear it.Hodkinson, Paul: [http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2010-09-06/axa-chief-dominique-senequier-talks-tough Axa Chief Dominique Senequier talks tough], efinancial news, published 6 September 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
References
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= External links =
- [http://www.ardian-investment.com/ ARDIAN]
- [https://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2013/10/10/international-50-most-powerful-women.fortune/16.html CNN Money Most Powerful Women: The International Power 50]
- [http://topics.wsj.com/person/S/dominique-senequier/5778 The Wall Street Journal Dominique Senequier]
- [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e688f686-a0af-11df-badd-00144feabdc0.html Financial Times 20 questions: Dominique Senequier]
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Category:French businesspeople