Amundi has named Petra Salesny as chief executive of Amundi Alpha Associates, the firm’s private markets multi-management business.
The division manages more than €24bn under management across private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate.
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She will remain chief commercial officer, a position she has held since Amundi bought Alpha Associates in 2024.
Salesny was among the founders of Alpha Associates in 2004.
Before the team separated from Swiss Life Private Equity Partners, she was chief operations officer at SLPEP.
Earlier, she worked as legal adviser to the private equity team at Bank Vontobel in 2001. From 1999 to 2001, she was an M&A consultant at Helbling in Düsseldorf and Zurich, where she worked on structuring and co-ordinating cross-border transactions involving mid-sized companies.
Amundi said it serves 100 million retail, institutional and corporate clients and provides savings and investment products across active and passive strategies in traditional and real assets.
The company, a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole and listed on the stock exchange, manages more than €2.3tn in assets. It has 5,600 employees in 35 countries.
Earlier this year, Amundi disclosed a number of senior management changes covering its real assets and distribution operations, all effective from 1 January 2026.
Under those changes, Alexandre Lefebvre became deputy head of the group’s real and alternative assets division. Pierre-Adrien Domon was appointed chief executive of Sabadell Asset Management, and Michaël Martineau was named chief executive of Fund Channel.
Claire Chabrier was also promoted to head of direct investments – private markets within Amundi’s real and alternative assets division.
In March this year, Amundi SA, KKR, and Temasek Holdings’ Seviora unit made non-binding bids for a stake in United Overseas Bank’s asset management division, reported Bloomberg citing sources.
Those close to the talks say proposals have been submitted as part of UOB’s review of options for its asset management business.
