Christine Nigro has been promoted to president of AXA Advisors, the retail distribution channel of AXA Equitable Life Insurance. Based in New York, Ms Nigro will report to Nick Lane, head of Retail Distribution Business Platforms. Ms Nigro is responsible for overseeing AXA Advisors' 6,000 financial professionals in respect of business development and operations, supervision and suitability, sales and marketing support, and commission processing. Ms Nigro joined AXA Advisors in May last year as chief operating officer. Previously she was director of Personal Financial Services, Investment Operations and Customer Service for JP Morgan Chase and, earlier, a vice president of the International Private Client Group for Merrill Lynch, where she was responsible for creating new products and developing local markets in the UK and Australia. AXA Advisors operates throughout the continental US, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, serving over three million individual and business clients. It is a member of French insurer and wealth manager, the AXA Group.