Luxembourg-based fund platform and super management company (ManCo) Universal Investment has appointed Etienne Rougier as chief operating officer (COO).
Based in Luxembourg, Rougier will head up the firm’s operations, change management and technology divisions.
The newly created role will also see an expansion of the firm’s C-suite, which currently includes chief executive Michael Reinhard, chief customer officer Katja Müller and chief regulatory officer Frank Eggloff.
According to Reinhard, Rougier’s appointment will support both the development of Universal’s Luxembourg subsidiaries as well as international expansion via planned office openings in North America and Asia.
Rougier will also oversee the integration of the European Fund Administration, a Luxembourg-based ManCo acquired in November 2022.
Rougier joins from Alliance Bernstein, where he was most recently head of EMEA & Asia insurance.
He began his career at Axa Investment Management, during which time he oversaw the firm’s operational outsourcing project in Europe, and then he was COO and head of strategy at Architas, a London-based boutique which he set up for Axa IM in 2008.
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