Stephane Aknin

Vice President, Creative & Content

Prudential Financial

Stephane Aknin leads the Creative & Content teams within Prudential Communications to bring content strategies and communication campaigns to life through a multimedia storytelling lens. He collaborates closely with communications partners to conceptualize and create internal companywide cross-platform engagement campaigns, video production, event staging and experiences, as well as supports collateral materials and other design-related projects, to ensure reaching strategic outcomes. Previously, Aknin led the AXA Event & Production Center business unit in charge of video content projects and events. He  co-founded 35 mai Productions, one of the first French digital content agencies to introduce rich media concepts and video technologies in 1998, and sold the company to Angie, later joining this independent French corporate communications agency as partner in charge of digital and video. In December 2013, Aknin moved to AXA in the US to lead Strategic Communications and Multimedia initiatives and develop AXA Event & Production Center into a video Global Center of Excellence internally and externally.