Talents team

The Talents team members have chosen to adopt the same principles they ask entrepreneurs to follow:

- pro-active,

- highly independent,

- Involved and responsible: all the team members have their own money invested in the Talents funds.

We are looking for an ability to understand what drives entrepreneurs and the capacity to trust them. To get insight from various region of the globe, the team is in contact with local people, including friends and former Talents team members.

The Talents team members are :

- Charles Firmin Didot
- Guillaume de Corbiac
- Nils Meinefeld

Charles Firmin Didot
Founder - Fund Manager

Charles joined AXA IM in December 2003, bringing with him the Talents fund he had created. He has traded in financial markets since 1986 and developed the Talents strategy in December 2000. Before that, he spent 12 years at JP Morgan where he held various positions in the M&A and asset management departments in Paris, London and New York.

He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris in 1988. Charles Firmin-Didot is directly responsible for managing the range of Talents funds. Charles lives between the United States and Europe, and also travels extensively in Asia to meet entrepreneurs.

Guillaume de Corbiac
Fund Manager Talents Emerging Markets fund

Guillaume joined Talents in March 2004 after two years work experience in Paris and Singapore. Since then he has participated in every step of Talents’ development within AXA IM and has travelled extensively to meet with entrepreneurs in Southern Europe and numerous emerging countries, including eight months in Latin America. Since early 2009, he has been managing AXA WF Framlington Emerging Markets Talents’ stock picking, a fund he has been working on since its inception in September 2005. He graduated from ESSEC Business School in 2002.

Early 2009 Guillaume has been nominated as a co-fund manager for Talents emerging markets fund.

Nils Meinefeld

Nils is the newest member of the Talents Team. He has always been inspired by the long-term thinking of family businesses. His family built an environmentally friendly house 20 years ago - long before it became fashionable. This is one of the reasons why sustainability is at the core of his interests. Nils gained professional experience through working with multinationals such as Volkswagen in China and Kraft Foods. Though he enjoyed his work there, he wanted to be in a position where he could have more impact on good corporate behaviour. Talents gives him this opportunity.

Nils is German and has spent many years abroad living in China, the US, the UK, Sweden and France. Prior to his post graduate business studies at ESCP-EAP European School of Management in London and Paris, he received a bachelor degree in political sciences.