What Happened?
San Francisco, PA-based ModCloth Appointed Nicolas Genest as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
ModCloth is a leading online fashion and décor retailer specializing in unique styles from hundreds of independent designers in a full range of sizes. We offer a remarkable assortment that is sourced and styled in close collaboration with our passionate community of customers. We’re committed to inspiring personal style and helping our community of customers feel like the best version of themselves. Founded in a college dorm room by high school sweethearts Susan Gregg Koger and Eric Koger in 2002, ModCloth has since grown to over 350 employees across offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh. We`re a team-oriented company with shared goals achieved through rewarding, challenging, meaningful work. From Engineering to Experience, Creative to Customer Care, we work together to get things done. Our employees are helping to fulfill the company’s mission to change the way fashion is discovered, developed, delivered, and defined.
About the Person
Nicolas Genest is Chief Technology Officer at ModCloth. He is responsible for ensuring the successful execution of their revolutionary business mission through development and deployment of the company’s mobile and web presence as well as the entire underlying information system. Nicolas has also been CTO of The RealReal turning around their entire technology platform and re-ignited growth by transitioning them out of an outsourced technology model. He has also officiated as CTO of the European leader vente-privee.com in Paris, inventor of the Flash Sales model and he later launched the American joint venture with American Express in 2011. Under his tenure the pioneer of Flash Sales went from 170M to 1.2B Euros from 2007 to 2012. Previously, Nicolas was at Microsoft as a Business Intelligence and Development Platform Engineer where he worked on Database and .Net development technologies. He also served at Pfizer as Project Manager leading a team of developers producing critical web-based intranet applications.
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