Servion, Vaud, Switzerland
Global CDO / CIO / CTO with over 25 years of cross-industry experience leading Digital, Technology, and Data Transformation across Media, Finance, Luxury Retail, Fashion, and Apparel. Demonstrated track record of delivering measurable commercial impact by expanding D2C share, accelerating revenue growth, and optimizing ERP, Supply Chain, and CRM ecosystems. A commercially driven leader who seamlessly aligns Technology with business growth, Customer Experience, and EBITDA performance. Brings a strong and versatile foundation across Technology, Digital, General Management, Sales, and Finance — with experience spanning multinational corporations, family-owned enterprises, and private equity-backed organizations. Visionary, innovative, and energetic executive — a strategic thinker and empowering leader with a deep passion for people. Recognized as a global digital business and technology team builder with a proven record of transforming and scaling brands and organizations across Europe, the Americas, APAC, China, and Japan. Deep skills in: - Leadership. Team building and talent growth. Built and managed global teams +350 people, budget +m€100 - Strategy. Innovation, Transformation (large Programs) and Value Creation. Drove the shift from product centric to customer centric and platform culture. Improved technology and operations capabilities. Augmented team/people efficiency - Technology. Agile, SecDevOps, Architectures (MACH), Integration, mobile first, CI/CD chains, API and REST, Product Development. Built proprietary omnichannel multi-tenant platforms based on micro services and packages integrations (Adobe, Salesforce, Magento, Saleor, FluentCommerce). Cloud (Microsoft Azure, Google GCP and AWS), ERP (SAP R3 and S/4HANA), PLM/PIM/DAM, CMS, OMS, CRM and Clienteling (Salesforce and SAP), Data, Analytics, AI and ML (K-means clustering for customer data and sales forecasting). Blockchain activation, Wallet and NFT development - e-Commerce. P&L management, operations, logistics and Contact Center activation/internalization. Platform and Data strategy. Marketplaces activation – Tmall/Luxury Pavilion. Digital Marketing SEO/SEM/DMP/DSP/CDP, MROI and advanced MarTech - OmniChannel. Digital capabilities in store for Sales Staff, CRM and customer data unification, advanced Clienteling, 121 communication, mobile focus, real time inventory
Executive Board Member with dual responsibilities, serving as General Manager for EMEA and Global Chief Digital & Information Officer, reporting directly to the CEO. Accountable for driving Fossil Group’s commercial turnaround in EMEA and leading the company’s global Digital/Technology strategy and execution.