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David Raymond

David’s career journey has spanned a broad range of organisations including start-ups, family owned businesses, privately held multi-nationals and publicly listed group companies. His experience is global, initially based out of Europe and the past two decades located within Greater China and Asia Pacific regions. Senior leadership roles include CHANEL (1999-2017) and LVMH (2018-2020). He was Managing Director at Christian Dior Couture, South Korea (2018-2020). Prior to which he was Managing Director at CHANEL, Taiwan (2007-2017) having previously been Marketing Director - Fragrance & Beauty at CHANEL, South Korea (2003-2007). Deep sector expertise in luxury goods, branding, clienteling and brings outstanding generic and visionary capability in delivering sustainable brand equity and business growth across multiple geographies and cultures. Passionate about growing the next generation of businessleaders and continuous learning; having transformed leadership teams and empowered organisations to be more innovative, adaptive and collaborative in pursuit of their purpose. Most recently David founded Luxe Advisory and is engaged in advising Institutional Investors and large Management Consultancies, leveraging his expertise, industry know-how and network. His mature relationships also allows him to facilitate discreet, yet insightful market visits to help investors and clients discover on the ground trends in the US, Europe & Asia. David is building his NED and Board Advisory portfolio, supporting and inspiring owner managed businesses on their journey to scale. He has recently been appointed Senior Board Advisor to Kaiku.