GLOBAL LUXURY BUSINESS EXPERT

Uche Pézard is a pioneer Global Luxury Business Expert, Consultant, Strategist & Advisor with a 20-year career track-record in the business of luxury. A veteran professional who has contributed to shaping the landscape of the modern luxury industry in the last two decades, she has consulted for and advised some of the world’s most prominent global luxury brands, groups and institutions on projects and ventures spanning over 70 countries on 6 continents. Her impressive portfolio features a roll-call of some of the world’s most renowned global brands whose market value and cultural impact have fundamentally shaped our modern world including Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermès, Gucci, Cartier, Dior, Giorgio Armani, Valentino, Van Cleef & Arpels, Boucheron, Chopard, Moët & Chandon, Perrier Jouët, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg etc. 

She is one of a minority of women to helm a French luxury company, and the first female of African descent to do so, when she became the Chief Executive Officer of Luxe Corp (later renamed Luxe Strategy) in 2015, the pioneer luxury business strategy consulting & advisory company, which she co-founded. She subsequently engineered the company’s consolidation across Europe, North America, Asia and Middle East, notably in the pivotal markets of China, Japan and USA. Subsequently in 2017, she created Luxury Connect Africa, a business resource platform dedicated to reviving and accelerating luxury’s growth in Africa and Afrocentric markets, considered as the last frontier for the expansion of the luxury business. 

Earlier in her career, Uche’s vision for the modern consolidation of the luxury business through technology and innovation led her to create Club e-Luxe in 2007, the industry’s first digital luxury business platform that defined the digital & tech direction of the leading luxury houses in the industry’s first digital decade, congregating over 2,000 senior executives annually in Paris for nearly a decade, and establishing a central destination for digital strategy, operational best practices and access to tech solutions adapted to for creative businesses.

She is the author of two bestselling books: Luxury Fashion Branding (2007), the first book to address the business of luxury from a strategic perspective; and Luxury Online (2010), the first book to analyse digital media and tech innovation in luxury. She has also acted as a Guest Editor and Contributor of several publications including the Journal of Brand Management and Harvard Business Review; and has been featured in global press & media including New York Times, Forbes, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Economist, Bloomberg, Financial Times etc. A highly sought-after engaging speaker, she has addressed business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and scholars at over 150 conferences and professional gatherings including Condé Nast Luxury Conference, New York Times Luxury Conference, American Express Luxury Summit, Goldman Sachs Luxury Forum, China Luxury Summit, and prominent institutions including Harvard Business School, ESSEC Paris, London Business School, IE Madrid, MIT Boston among others. 

A polyglot fluent in four languages, Uche Pézard sits on the boards of several companies and institutions; and has been an Honorary Fellow of the American Luxury Marketing Council since 2009. In addition to the luxury and media businesses, she is an ardent of contemporary art, design and cuisine, as well as tech innovation and aerospace. Her ultimate lifetime devotion is to social equity for a just world.