Deborah Shire

Deborah Shire has been appointed Deputy Head of AXA IM Alts in charge of Corporate Development in April 2020, in addition to her role as Global Head of Structured Finance. She is a member of AXA IM's Management Board.

From 2011 to 2014, she was Global Head of Business Development at AXA Real Estate, Member of the Management Board of AXA Real Estate, in charge of Corporate Finance, Investor Relations, and Marketing & Communications. She was then appointed Head of Structured Finance in 2014.

Deborah Shire joined the AXA Group in 1996 in the corporate finance department, doing M&A. She then joined AXA IM in 1998 as Quantitative Portfolio Manager, where she worked to establish AXA IM’s Structured Finance Division as a founding member of the team in 2000. She then became the Head of Structured Finance Engineering team, in charge of product development and structuring. In 2007, she became Deputy Head of Structured Finance, heading up the Business Development (including Sales and Structuring, Strategy and Finance) teams.

Deborah is a graduate from SUPAERO (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace) and holds a diploma of Financial Analyst from the SFAF (French Society of Financial Analysts).