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Ardian (other)
Ardian may refer to: * Ardian (company) Ardian (formerly Axa Private Equity) is a France-based, independent private equity investment company, founded and managed by Dominique Senequier. It is one of the largest European-headquartered private equity funds. The company was originally ..., is a private equity investment firm (formerly Axa Private Equity) * Ardian (given name), Albanian given name * Ardian, Iran, a village in Semnan Province, Iran * A proposed rank for Air Marshal in the Royal Air Force {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardian (company)
Ardian (formerly Axa Private Equity) is a France-based, independent private equity investment company, founded and managed by Dominique Senequier. It is one of the largest European-headquartered private equity funds. The company was originally set up by Dominique Senequier in 1996 as the AXA Group's private equity division, but later gained independence in 2013, and rebranded itself as Ardian. The name Ardian (ar・di・an) was inspired by an ancient European language in which 'hardjan' mean strength, durability, and boldness. Ardian manages assets worth US$141 billion in Europe, North America and Asia, and has fifteen offices (Paris, London, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid, Zurich, New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo, Jersey, Luxembourg, Santiago, and Seoul). The firm offers a funds of funds, direct funds, infrastructure, private debt and real estate, and manages a direct portfolio of more than 150 companies, including , Luton Airport and SPIE. Its fund of funds segme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardian (given Name)
Ardian is an Albanian name. Although similar to Adrian, a name of Latin origin, the Albanian name Ardian ( Ardjan and Ardijan being other variants) is a derivation of Ardiaei, the name of an ancient Illyrian people. Their original inland residence was along the Naro River (modern river Neretva, also known as Narenta in ancient times) up to the Konjic region, in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. Etymology Both the name of the ancient Illyrian people 'Ardiaei', and the personal name 'Ardian' have the same root - ''ardia''. The Albanian word that corresponds most closely to the root-word 'ardia' is ''ardhja'', meaning the future, ''arrival'' or ''descent'', by which ''Ardian'' would therefore be "the one that arrives or descends from...", or simply ''the descendant/offspring''. However, one certainly ought to consider all other possible etymologies for ''Ardiaei'', which in this form certainly belongs to Latin transliteration, in order to reach any tangible conclusion. When i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardian, Iran
Ardian ( fa, ارديان, also Romanized as Ardīān) is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Shahrud County, Semnan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 329, in 94 families. References Populated places in Shahrud County {{Shahrud-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |