Dominique Senequier
Dominique Senequier is a French businesswoman. She is president of Ardian, a private equity firm she founded in 1996.
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.
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.
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. In 2013, she announced that the firm was separating from Axa Group; it became Ardian.
Senequier has more than 410 employees running more than 50 active funds in 12 offices around the world.
Other activities
Corporate boards
- Hermès, Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board
- Hewlett-Packard, Member of the Board of Directors
- Compagnie Industriali Riunite, former Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors
Non-profit organizations
Recognition
Senequier was ranked 66th on FortuneIn 2012, Senequier was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
In October 2013, she was named in the Bloomberg Top 50 Most Influential People in the world in Money Managers category.