The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
LONDON, United Kingdom — Mr Porter managing director Toby Bateman is exiting Yoox Net-a-Porter Group (YNAP), BoF has learned.
The well-regarded executive joined the group’s luxury menswear site as its buying director when it launched in 2010 and was promoted to managing director in 2015. A spokesperson for YNAP did not respond to requests for comment regarding his departure.
Bateman is the latest in a string of executives to exit YNAP in the past year. Most recently, Stephanie Haywood — who was director of personal shopping at the Yoox Net-a-Porter Group — left the company. Chief people officer Deborah Lee, Chief Financial Officer Enrico Cavatorta, Net-a-Porter Managing Director Matthew Woolsey and Porter Editor-in-Chief Lucy Yeomans have also departed in the past year. In 2018, top-management exits included Chief Information Officer Alex Alexander, Off-Price President Alessandra Rossi, Global Chief Operating Officer Alberto Grignolo and Group Communications Director Bruno-Roland Bernard.
While Yeomans was never officially replaced, the group has also made a number of new hires to bolster the team. YNAP announced last week that former Giuseppe Zanotti Chief Executive Nicola Brandolese would succeed Woolsey, who is now president of Mousse Partners-backed outerwear brand 66˚North. Other recent hires include LVMH veteran Thierry Pichon — in the newly created role of vice president of global sales and customer experience at Net-a-Porter and Mr Porter — and Chief Technology Officer Pete Marsden, who joined from insurance company Aviva. Marsden has experience in technology replatforming, a process the Richemont-owned group has struggled with for the past three years. Mr Porter is in the midst of the replatforming process.
Bateman’s next move is unknown.
Related Articles:
[ Kering to Take Control of E-Commerce, Ending YNAP Partnership ]
Bottega Veneta designer Matthieu Blazy, Gap Inc CEO Richard Dickson, Brunello Cuccinelli and others discussed craft, culture, brand building and more, while a panel of sustainability stakeholders examined the colonial dynamics embedded in fashion’s climate crisis.
BoF’s Imran Amed and McKinsey’s Achim Berg unpack what opportunities and challenges businesses should look out for in the year ahead.
The eighth annual State of Fashion report by The Business of Fashion and McKinsey & Company reveals an industry navigating deep uncertainty. Download the full report to understand the 10 themes that will define the industry and the opportunities for growth in the year ahead.
Artificial intelligence, preserving a sense of humanity and the power of representation were just a few of the topics covered by speakers including Chanel CEO Leena Nair.