Nicolas Genest

Nicolas Genest has been Chief Technology Officer of Modcloth and orchestrated the rebirth of the brand alongside a renewed executive team in 2016. The re-platformed retailer was then acquired by Jet.com/Walmart and Nicolas secured the transition.

As CTO of The RealReal from 2013 to 2016, he turned 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-privée.com in Paris, inventor of the Flash Sales model, where he later also launched their American joint venture with American Express in 2011. Under his tenure, the highly profitable pioneer of Flash Sales grew from 170M to 1.2B Euros from 2007 to 2012.

Previously, Nicolas was at Microsoft as a Business Intelligence and Platform Engineer where he worked on Database, BI, and .Net development technologies. He also served at Pfizer as Project Manager leading a team of developers producing critical web-based intranet applications.