Grégory Boutté Appointed Chief Client and Digital Officer of Kering
December 04 2017 - 1:50AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Kering (Paris:KER) announces the appointment of Grégory Boutté
as Chief Client and Digital Officer, effective today. He will
report directly to Jean-François Palus, Managing director of
Kering, and will be a member of the Group’s Executive
Committee.
His responsabilities as Kering’s Chief Client and Digital
Officer will be to lead the Group’s digital transformation and to
drive the development of e-commerce, CRM and data management.
About Gregory BoutteGrégory Boutté, 45, began
his career in fast-moving consumer goods, working in brand
managerment at Procter & Gamble in Paris before moving to the
tech sector, joining the French online auction start-up iBazar in
2000, which was acquired by eBay in 2001. He then became General
Manager of eBay France, which quickly became one of the most
popular e-commerce platforms in France. He went on to manage eBay
Europe (excl. UK and Germany) in 2007 before moving to eBay Motors
and Electronics divisions in San Jose, California in 2010. In 2013,
Grégory Boutté joined Sidecar, the first short-distance,
peer-to-peer ride-sharing platform which was bought by General
Motors in 2016. In 2015, Gregory joined Udemy, a start-up which
provides 15 million students the opportunity to take online
courses.Grégory Boutté is a graduate of ESCP Europe.
About KeringA global Luxury group, Kering develops an
ensemble of luxury houses in fashion, leather goods, jewelry and
watches: Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen,
Balenciaga, Brioni, Christopher Kane, McQ, Stella McCartney, Tomas
Maier, Boucheron, Dodo, Girard-Perregaux, Pomellato, Qeelin and
Ulysse Nardin. Kering is also developing the Sport & Lifestyle
brands Puma, Volcom and Cobra. By ‘empowering imagination’, Kering
encourages its brands to reach their potential, in the most
sustainable manner.The Group generated revenue of €12.385 billion
in 2016 and had more than 40,000 employees at year end. The Kering
share is listed on Euronext Paris (FR 0000121485, KER.PA,
KER.FP).
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