Following his recent appointment as managing director of AXA’s corporate benefits business, effective 1 October, Paul McMahon [1] has today announced the leadership team which will support him in accelerating this area of AXA’s business.
Joining McMahon, as director of sales and marketing is Colin Williams [2], previously executive director of DC Pensions at Fidelity. Williams has a very strong track record of success, achieved over a number of years working in corporate benefits and will bring that depth of knowledge and insight to the new team.
Bryan Hill [3] is moving with McMahon from the AXA Distribution Services business which has been responsible for building the highly successful Elevate wrap proposition. Hill has a long history of achievement in the design, build and delivery of new business models in Australia and the UK. Hill and Williams join commercial director Marcus Gent [4] and operations director Donna Trapnell [5], who will both remain part of the leadership team at AXA.
Paul McMahon commented: “This combination of talented business leaders represents a very able management team who will help define and deliver market leading propositions for our corporate benefits business.
“These appointments signal further development of the corporate benefits business showing the scale of AXA’s ambition in this space and ensures the right people are in place to meet the demands of a fast changing marketplace.”
Note :
[1] Paul McMahon became managing director of AXA corporate benefits on 1 October 2009, having previously been managing director of AXA Distribution Services. Paul’s priority will be to grow AXA’s corporate benefits business, harnessing the existing capabilities of the group and developing upon them to ensure AXA’ delivers a market leading corporate benefits offering in a fast changing market. Paul has been a member of the management board of the AXA Life business since joining the group and previously held the roles of strategy and marketing director for AXA Life in the UK.
[2] Colin Williams joined AXA on 1 October 2009 as sales and marketing director for AXA corporate benefits, responsible for defining, developing and managing the sales and marketing strategy as well as creating innovative market leading propositions to respond to the changing corporate savings market. Prior to working at AXA, Colin held a number of director and change management positions within the corporate benefits market.
[3] Bryan Hill became design and delivery director for AXA corporate benefits on 1 October 2009 with responsibility for the strategic planning, management and end to end delivery of the business change and delivery programmes within AXA corporate benefits. Bryan also has responsibility for product development, organisational change within corporate benefits and will lead the design committees encompassing all systems and services used by the corporate benefits area. Bryan previously held the role of solution design director for AXA distribution services.
[4] Marcus Gent continues as commercial director of AXA corporate benefits He is responsible for all elements of financial, commercial and risk management for the corporate benefits division. Marcus is a qualified actuary with considerable depth of experience in financial and marketing management roles in AXA.
[5] Donna Trapnell continues as client services director. She is responsible for the delivery of exceptional customer service delivery across two strategic administration platforms in multiple locations, together with on-going programmes of process improvement and capability development within the corporate benefits business of AXA.
