Anna Albu
Head of Private Equity Finance and AI, Aztec Group.
Finance leadership, AI in the workflow, people in the lead.
- At Aztec Group
- €300m+ portfolio
- Independent
- AI solutions, end to end
- ALBU Studio
- Founder, seventeen years
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Next Speaking at the LPEA AI Lab panel on rethinking intelligence, 24 September 2026, Luxembourg.
One person, three lines of work.
A €300m+ portfolio across six jurisdictions, and the AI stream across group functions.
About the roleEnd to end. From the first use case through build, deployment and the team that runs it.
How an engagement runsFounded and running it for seventeen years, held alongside the finance career.
About the studioPractice, and the schools that made it.
A finance executive who has put AI into the operating model.
Anna leads finance for the Private Equity and Fund of Funds asset classes at Aztec Group and is the AI lead across group functions. The day-to-day is the operating reality of fund administration at scale; the second shift is the practical engineering of AI inside a regulated finance function.
In practice the remit runs across three tracks: a company-wide AI literacy programme designed by function; coaching teams at internal hackathons; and leading an AI Council focused on operational automation and optimisation.
In a room of finance executives, she speaks AI. In a room of AI builders, she speaks finance. Most rooms need both fluencies. The work runs across her own function and the advisory engagements where boards and CFOs are taking on the same.
What she leads is change management under AI. AI arrives in a quarter. Teams rewire over years.
AI that fits the business you actually run.
Most small companies know AI matters and have no idea where to start in their own line of work. Anna starts with the market the business operates in, then two questions. What is the goal? Who is the target? Everything else follows from the answers.
From there she develops the solution. Sometimes that means a business case built around tools that already exist. Sometimes it means something tailored, built from the ground up. Which one depends on the company, and she says so early.
She has built systems from scratch for small consultancies, end to end. Use case, design, build, deployment, and then the part most projects skip. Education of the people who will run it afterwards, because a system nobody understands is a system nobody uses.
If that sounds like your company, write with a line about what you do.
A business of her own, begun at twelve.
ALBU Studio is a bespoke wedding photography practice Anna founded in 2009, at twelve, and has run as sole principal ever since, carrying it across every country she has lived in. It works now from Luxembourg City and internationally.
Seventeen consecutive years of trading, held alongside the finance career rather than instead of it. A single principal on the day, film and digital depending on the light, and a calendar deliberately kept small.
Founded 2009 Founder and principal photographer anna-albu.com
A line of contact.
- /in/anna-albu
- Based
- Luxembourg, CET / CEST
For AI-enabled solutions in a small enterprise, CFO and Head of Finance roles, AI advisory engagements, or board work, and the occasional question worth answering.