Lavinia Borcia joined Comgest in 2014 and is Global Head of Finance for the Comgest Group as well as a member of the Group's Executive Committee. 

Lavinia works with the finance teams across Comgest's entities, oversees the consolidated financial reporting of the Group and its transfer pricing policy. She supervises the Group’s dividend distribution and cash management, and assists in facilitating access to the shareholder structure. She began her career in 2006 as a Financial Auditor at Mazars, covering the asset management sector. Lavinia moved to AXA Investment Managers in 2011 where she was CFO of the Group’s structured finance division. 

Lavinia holds a Master’s degree in Accounting, Auditing and Control from the Paris-Sorbonne University (France) and is a Chartered Accountant.

Lisa Bruot joined Comgest in 1999 and is Head of Investor Services as well as a non-executive member of the Board of Partners.

Lisa manages the Investor Services team, which consists of separate Client Reporting and RFP teams. Since she joined, Lisa has been responsible for the development of Comgest’s Investor Services team, which previously encompassed Comgest’s marketing, investment communications and press relations activities in addition to providing support to Investor Relations across Comgest’s global offices. Lisa is also a former member of Comgest's Capital and Compensation Committee (CCC) Working Group.

Lisa holds a Bachelor’s degree in French from the University of Reading (United Kingdom).

Jean-François Canton, a non-voting member (“Censor”) of the Board of Partners, is one of the two co-founders of Comgest and remained the CEO until his retirement in 2010.

With a strong background in Asian investments, Jean-François launched Comgest’s first Asian equity strategy in 1989, before developing the Global Equity strategy in 1991. Prior to Comgest, he started his career managing foreign equity investments at the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in Paris and then joined Banque Indosuez as a senior fund manager, investing in the Pacific Basin markets.

Jean-François holds a Master's degree in Law from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France).

Monique Cohen is an independent member of the Supervisory Board of Hermès International (Vice-Chair), Lead Director of the Safran Group and was appointed to the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas on February 12, 2014. Since July 2020, Monique has been a Senior Advisor at Apax Partners.

Prior to her current role, she was a partner in charge of investments in the business services and financial services sectors at Apax Partners from 2000 to 2020. Until September 2014, Monique was a member of the Board of the French Financial Markets Authority, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers. She began her career in 1979 at Paribas, where she was Senior Banker, then Global Head of Equities.

Monique is a graduate of École Polytechnique (X76) in France, holding a Master's degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor's degree in Business Law.

Jan-Peter Dolff joined Comgest in 1997 and is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Comgest Group. He is a member of the Group's Board of Partners, Executive Committee (Chair) and Sustainability Committee.

Upon joining Comgest, Jan-Peter held fund management responsibilities for the European and US equity strategies for eight years. Following this experience, he founded Comgest Deutschland in 2006, which he managed until returning to Paris in 2011. Jan-Peter then held the role of Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Comgest Group.

He holds a Master’s degree (Diplom-Kaufmann) in Business Administration from Heinrich-Heine-Universität (Germany).

Eva Fornadi joined Comgest in 2005 and is an Analyst and Portfolio Manager specialising in European equities. She is also a non-executive member of the Board of Partners.

She co-leads the Europe Smaller Companies and Europe Opportunities strategies.

Eva graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Business Studies issued by the Oxford Brookes University in the UK and a BA in Business Studies at the International Business School in Budapest, Hungary.

Jean-Pierre Hellebuyck joined the AXA Group in 1977 where he held several roles including portfolio manager, Chief Investment Officer and currently, non-executive Vice-Chairman and Board Director of AXA Investment Managers.

Mr. Hellebuyck is member of several organisations, including the Collège de l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).

Monique Jozeau joined Comgest in 2016 and is Group Corporate Secretary as well as a member of the Group’s Executive and Sustainability Committees.

As Group Corporate Secretary for Comgest S.A. and Comgest Global Investors in Paris, she is also responsible for Comgest Shareholder Services and advising the Board of Partners. Monique started her career in 2002 as a Certified Business Attorney in Brazil, working for a state judge and state attorney. Relocating to France in 2008, she joined the legal department of BNP Paribas in 2009. Monique joined TAIB Securities in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2011, working first as Head of Legal and Compliance and then as General Counsel and Company Secretary of TAIB Bank Group.

Monique holds Master’s degrees in International Business Law, Common Law and Comparative Law from University of Paris V (France), as well as Brazilian Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). She is a Bar-qualified attorney in Brazil.

Jasmine Kang joined Comgest in 2014 and is a Hong Kong-based Analyst and Portfolio Manager specialising in Greater China equities as well as a non-executive member of the Board of Partners and a Managing Director of Comgest Far East Limited.

Jasmine co-manages Comgest’s China strategy. Before joining Comgest, she worked at China Everbright Asset Management as Investment Director responsible for China onshore and offshore equity research and investment. Jasmine began her career in 2005 at BNP Paribas Investment Partners where she focused on Asian equities as a research analyst and portfolio manager.

A native Mandarin speaker, Jasmine has a Master’s degree in International Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and completed Harvard Business School’s Senior Executive Leadership Program. She is a CFA^® charterholder.

Philippe Lebeau joined Comgest in 2009 and is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Comgest S.A., as well as a member of the Comgest Group's Executive Committee.

Philippe sits on a number of Group governance bodies and contributes to strategic projects.  He previously held the position of Global Head of Marketing & Investor Relations from 2009-2021. He began his career at the chartered surveyor Insignia Bourdais (now CBRE), providing real estate advisory services to French institutional investors, before moving to Banque du Louvre where he held various asset management advisory and marketing roles. He was later appointed Managing Director of LGI, the Luxembourg subsidiary of HSBC Private Bank France, where he was Head of Business Development and Multi-management activities. Philippe held the position of CEO of Louvre Gestion (now HSBC Private Wealth Managers) before joining Comgest.

Philippe graduated from the HEC School of Management and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France).