Déborah Shire

Deborah was appointed in 2020 Deputy Head of AXA IM Alts, AXA IM’s €190bn+ alternative business unit, AXA IM Alts, which employs over 980 people located in 17 offices, serving the needs of more than 640 clients globally.

AXA IM Alts is a global leader in alternatives asset management, putting ESG at the heart of its investment approach, with an established position in real estate (#1 real estate investment manager in Europe, #10 worldwide)[1], infrastructure (#3 global infrastructure debt capital raiser),[2] private debt (#1 CRE debt capital raiser globally)[3], alternative credit and private equity. 

Between 2014 and 2020 Deborah acted as the Global Head of Alternative Credit business and also had the responsibility of the Impact and Private Equity business. She joined the Management Board of CAPZA, a leading European Private Debt and Private Equity firm, in 2019, where she successfully guided the partnership through various stages until the full acquisition was completed in 2024.

Between 2011 to 2014, Deborah served as a Global Head of Business Development within the Real Assets team at AXA IM, in this role she was responsible for Corporate Finance, Investor Relations, Market-ing & Communication and Business Development. Deborah was also a member of the Management Board of AXA IM – Real Assets and was instrumental in the creation of the CRE debt platform, now firm-ly established as a global leader in its field today.

In 2000, Deborah founded the Alternative Credit platform, growing it from a €3.5bn business to one of the largest managers of alternative credit assets in Europe today. In her role, Deborah led the development and launch of a performing and diversified product range including leveraged loans, ABS, CLOs, ILS, Mortgages, Regulatory Capital and Impact investment.

Deborah has extensive experience working for AXA group and held various positions both in the AXA Group Corporate Finance, in charge of AXA Group M&A and Treasury and AXA IM Quantative Manage-ment departments before moving to AXA IM Structured Finance in 2000.

Deborah joined AXA in 1996 and has had over 29 years of experience.

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