MD - Head of Distribution - France, Geneva, Monaco & Israel at Natixis Investment Managers Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Babak Abrar
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MD - Head of Distribution - France, Geneva, Monaco & Israel at Natixis Investment Managers
Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

> Leading a team of 12 sales and 7 supports covering Wholesale & Retail intermediaries in France, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, Monaco and Israel
-> 17 years’ experience in the financial industry with 12 years of relationship-building across the Swiss, French and Monegasque Financial Intermediaries (wholesale, retail and institutional)
-> Directly responsible for the firm’s institutional investors (pension funds and consultants), private banks and family offices in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
-> Former “Solution Provider” Sales… until I discovered I was actually a CHALLENGER Sales
-> Expertise across long only and alternative (liquid and illiquid) investment management processes

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Natixis Investment Managers
Company NameNatixis Investment Managers
Total Duration10 yrs 7 mos
TitleMD - Head of Distribution - France, Geneva, Monaco & Israel
Dates EmployedMar 2016 – Present
Employment Duration2 yrs 7 mos
LocationGeneva Area, Switzerland
TitleSVP - Head of Wholesale France, Geneva, Monaco & Israel
Dates EmployedMar 2014 – Present
Employment Duration4 yrs 7 mos
Location Geneva & Paris
TitleSVP - Sales Manager - Switzerland & Israel
Dates EmployedOct 2013 – Present
Employment Duration5 yrs
LocationGeneva Area, Switzerland
TitleSVP - Sales Manager - Switzerland
Dates EmployedMar 2013 – Present
Employment Duration5 yrs 7 mos
LocationGeneva
TitleVP - Sales Manager - Switzerland
Dates EmployedMar 2008 – Present
Employment Duration10 yrs 7 mos
LocationGeneva Area, Switzerland
Establishment in 2008 the Swiss office of the distribution arm of Natixis Global Asset Management, one of the largest asset management companies in the world with more than 20 investment managers in the U.S., Europe and Asia.


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Education
HEC Lausanne - School of Business
HEC Lausanne - School of Business
Degree NameMaster of Science in Business and Management Field Of StudyMajor in Finance and Marketing
Dates attended or expected graduation 1999 – 2004

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