Delano’s sister publication Paperjam reports that the former head of local and international partnerships at Axa, Sonia Franck, will take up the post vacated by Philip Grother, who left after just 9 months in the job.

Franck had also been in charge of the Axa Art branch and consumer relations management at the insurance company. Previously Franck, who played basketball in the Belgian league and has studied in the US, Sweden, Denmark and France, has garnered 25 years of experience in business development, change management, product management, innovation and business growth in banking and at Maison Moderne, the publisher of Delano, where she was a senior account manager. More recently she was product and business manager insurance at Motion S.

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