Overview

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Nicolas Genest has been part of many highly successful executive teams both as Chief Executive Officer and as Chief Technology Officer. He was named among the Top 30 Business Leaders in Tech in 2019 by Insights Success Magazine as the CEO of CodeBoxx Technology.

As CTO of Modcloth, he orchestrated the rebirth of the brand alongside Matt Kaness and a renewed executive team in 2016. The re-platformed retailer was acquired by Jet.com/Walmart.

As CTO of The RealReal in San Francisco from 2013 to 2016, he turned around their entire technology platform and re-ignited growth by transitioning them out of an outsourced technology model.

As CTO of the European leader vente-privee.com in Paris, the highly profitable pioneer of Flash Sales grew revenue from 170M to 1.2B Euros from 2007 to 2012 under his tenure. He went on to launch their joint venture with American Express in New York in 2011 with CEO Mike Steib.

Previously, Nicolas was at Microsoft as a Business Intelligence and Platform Engineer where he worked on their Database and .Net products. He also served at Pfizer leading a team of developers of critical web-based applications.

- Over 15 years of experience managing technology in all kinds of industries, contexts and cultures in the United States, France and Canada.
- Successful in small and huge projects, within small constrained structures or heavy complex organizations. Experienced in local,off-shore,near-shore and split-team projects.
- Strong track record at building and empowering extraordinary teams leading them to delivering long lasting value within a powerful culture
- Successful in managing annual IT budgets ranging from $1MM to $25MM and in managing teams of 15 or 180 collaborators.
- Engineering for Major-league E-Commerce (Heavy traffic, high-availability, Security) with solutions generating yearly revenue over 1B$ and handling 2.5 million unique daily visitors.
- End to End Business Intelligence Solutions, Advanced Decision-making on Big Data