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Global Fashion Group appoints Romain Voog as Chief Executive Officer and Nils Chrestin as Chief Financial Officer
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Merger of the five leading emerging markets fashion e-commerce companies to create Global Fashion Group completed
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Global Fashion Group raises additional EUR 32 million of primary capital from Tengelmann Ventures and Verlinvest at the merger valuation.
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Global Fashion Group continues to focus on its significant growth opportunities in fashion e-commerce across 27 emerging markets in four continents
Kinnevik today announced the completion of the merger to create Global Fashion Group ("GFG", the "Company"), the world`s leading emerging markets fashion e-commerce group, an additional EUR 32 million funding round and the appointment of Romain Voog (43) as CEO and Nils Chrestin (34) as CFO.
Romain and Nils will be responsible for the overall strategic and operational development of GFG as well as the various group functions, with the Dafiti, Lamoda, Jabong, Zalora and Namshi management teams continuing to lead the strong regional fashion e-commerce platforms. Furthermore, GFG, under the lead of Romain and Nils, will develop solutions to leverage know-how across the group even better, scale operations and hone its global infrastructure to strengthen its position as the #1 fashion destination for emerging markets.
Romain Voog joins GFG with 13 years of online and offline retail experience and a background as a strategy consultant. He spent the last seven years at Amazon, most recently as the company`s President and Managing Director for France. Prior to Amazon, he spent 6 years at Carrefour in various leadership roles and is a former strategy consultant from Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company in Europe and in Asia. Romain holds a General Engineering Diploma from École Centrale Paris.
Nils Chrestin has spent the last two years as Managing Director and CFO of Lamoda in Moscow prior to becoming GFG`s CFO in January 2015. Prior to his role at Lamoda, Nils was a private equity investor at Morgan Stanley Private Equity. Nils has over 10 years of experience and graduated from Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich with a Mathematics Diploma.
"We are delighted to announce the appointment of Romain as GFG`s new CEO. He brings most valuable additional e-commerce expertise to complement the outstanding work performed by our regional leaders. He and Nils will be a great team to drive operational excellence across the various business units", says Lorenzo Grabau, Chairman of GFG and CEO of Kinnevik.
"I am thrilled to join GFG as CEO. I look forward to working with our outstanding teams on the next stage of developments of our five regional businesses and to building the leading fashion e-tailer of emerging countries", says Romain Voog, CEO of Global Fashion Group.