{"id":9232,"date":"2015-06-16T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preprod.gmtmag.com\/?p=9232"},"modified":"2015-06-12T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:58:12","slug":"june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/business-n-en\/buisiness_news-2\/june-2015.html","title":{"rendered":"June 2015 : Jean-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dufour, Riccardo Monfarino, Fabrice Daengeli, Christophe Claret, Sophie Dubuis, Wolfgang Sickenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"contenu_article\">Following his appointment announced a year ago by the prestigious brand with the crown logo, <strong>Jean-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dufour<\/strong> officially took up office as CEO of <strong>Rolex<\/strong> on June 17<sup>th<\/sup> 2015, the day of its annual general assembly, during which his predecessor Gian Riccardo Marini was concurrently appointed to the board.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A watchmaker and goldsmith by training, the Italian executive <strong>RICCARDO MONFARDINO <\/strong>(right) subsequently took on more commercial roles, subsequently for Franck Muller where he contributed for 15 years to the brand development, before being appointed CEO of <strong>MECCANICHE VELOCI<\/strong> in Geneva this April. Pictured here with Cesare Cerrito (left), Executive Chairman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having transferred from Corum one week before Baselworld, <strong>Fabrice Daengeli<\/strong> is the new Marketing &amp; Communication director at <strong>Girard-Perregaux.\u00a0<\/strong>Prior to that he had gained valuable watch industry experience with both Bvlgari and Jaeger-LeCoultre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After having entrusted the reins of the company in 2013 to Wolfgang Sickenberg, who is now moving on to explore other professional horizons, <strong>Christophe Claret<\/strong> is taking back responsibility for his eponymous brand as CEO, and does not plan to appoint another one in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We wish a warm welcome to the watch industry to <strong>Sophie Dubuis,<\/strong> the new Director of <strong>Bucherer Geneva,<\/strong> who has gained substantial experience in the field of hospitality and management over the past years as director of the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) and as Vice-Director of Geneva Palexpo.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Wolfgang Sickenberg<\/strong> sets his course to a brand that is a better match for his broad-scale experience acquired over 20 years at Blancpain and then Audemars Piguet, and will now be serving as Sales Director for <strong>Ulysse Nardin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his appointment announced a year ago by the prestigious brand with the crown logo, <strong>Jean-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dufour<\/strong> officially took up office as CEO of <strong>Rolex<\/strong> on June 17<sup>th<\/sup> 2015, the day of its annual general assembly, during which his predecessor Gian Riccardo Marini was concurrently appointed to the board.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A watchmaker and goldsmith by training, the Italian executive <strong>RICCARDO MONFARDINO <\/strong>(right) subsequently took on more commercial roles, subsequently for Franck Muller where he contributed for 15 years to the brand development, before being appointed CEO of <strong>MECCANICHE VELOCI<\/strong> in Geneva this April. Pictured here with Cesare Cerrito (left), Executive Chairman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having transferred from Corum one week before Baselworld, <strong>Fabrice Daengeli<\/strong> is the new Marketing &amp; Communication director at <strong>Girard-Perregaux.\u00a0<\/strong>Prior to that he had gained valuable watch industry experience with both Bvlgari and Jaeger-LeCoultre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After having entrusted the reins of the company in 2013 to Wolfgang Sickenberg, who is now moving on to explore other professional horizons, <strong>Christophe Claret<\/strong> is taking back responsibility for his eponymous brand as CEO, and does not plan to appoint another one in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We wish a warm welcome to the watch industry to <strong>Sophie Dubuis,<\/strong> the new Director of <strong>Bucherer Geneva,<\/strong> who has gained substantial experience in the field of hospitality and management over the past years as director of the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) and as Vice-Director of Geneva Palexpo.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Wolfgang Sickenberg<\/strong> sets his course to a brand that is a better match for his broad-scale experience acquired over 20 years at Blancpain and then Audemars Piguet, and will now be serving as Sales Director for <strong>Ulysse Nardin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9236,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions\/9236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}