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Christopher " Kip " Condron

Principal function :

Member of the AXA Management Board
Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of AXA Financial, Inc. (United States)

Born on July 2, 1947

Mandate and number of AXA shares

  • Elected on July 4, 2001 - Term expires on October 11, 2009
  • First elected to the Management Board on July 4, 2001
  • Number of AXA shares held as of December 31, 2007: 198.087 AXA ADR

Positions currently held in the AXA Group

  • Member of the Management Board: AXA
  • Director, President and Chief Executive Officer: AXA Financial, Inc. (United States)
  • Director, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer: AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company (United States), AXA Equitable Life Financial Services, LLC (United States), MONY Life Insurance Company (United States), MONY Life Insurance Company of America (United States), MONY Financial Services, Inc. (United States), AXA Life and Annuity Company (United States), AXA Distribution Holding Corporation (United States)
  • Director and President: AXA America Holdings, Inc. (United States)
  • Director, Chairman and President: ACMC, Inc. (United States)
  • Director: AllianceBernstein Corporation (United States), AXA Art Insurance Corporation (United States), American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) (United States)
  • Director, Vice-Chairman and Member: Financial Services Roundtable (United States)

Positions currently held outside the AXA Group

  • Central Supply Corp (United States), Director
  • KBW, Inc. (United States), Director
  • The American Ireland Fund (United States), Director and Treasurer
  • President's Business Council of the University of Scranton, Chairman

Previous directorships held during the last five years

  • Chairman of the Board, "President" and Chief Executive Officer: MONY Holdings, LLC (United States)
  • Director and Chairman: U.S. Financial Life Insurance Company (United States), Financial Marketing, Inc. (United States)

Education

1970 - The University of Scranton - Bachelor's Degree in Business Management

Professional experience

  • 1989: Head of the Private Client Group of The Boston Company, now Mellon Private Asset Management.
  • 1993: Executive Vice President of Mellon
  • 1994: Vice-Chairman of Mellon
  • 1995: Assumed responsibility for The Dreyfus Corporation as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
  • 1998: President and Chief Operating Officer of Mellon Bank N.A.
  • 1999 - 2001: President & Chief Operating Officer of Mellon Financial Corporation
  • Since May 2001: President and CEO of AXA Financial Inc.
    Chairman of the Board, President (since May 2002) and Chief Executive Officer of AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company
  • Since July 2001 Member of the AXA Management Board