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Monica Vinader<\/p>\n
Picardo is a seasoned luxury executive who\u2019s worked at Holt Renfrew<\/a>, Lane Crawford<\/a>, Burberry<\/a>, Net-A-Porter and Alexander McQueen<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n His most recent role was as president & CEO at Canada\u2019s Holt Renfrew for five years, joining in summer 2020 as the pandemic made it one of the most difficult periods for luxury department stores.<\/p>\n Before that he\u2019d spent six years at one of Asia-Pacific\u2019s key names, Lane Crawford, ending his time there as deputy president. Previously he\u2019s been digital commerce MD at Burberry, head of finance at Net-A-porter, and financial controller at Alexander McQueen.<\/p>\n So he\u2019s clearly an extremely experienced executive and leader with crucial time spent both at the upper end of the luxury segment and also in the more affordable premium space in which Monica Vinader operates. And his knowledge of the international market should also be key.<\/p>\n Its big move for the brand that was founded by siblings Monica and Gabriela Vinader in 2008 and has been profitable for most of its history.<\/p>\n With Picardo as CEO, Monica Vinader remains an executive and also the brand\u2019s artistic director while Gabriela Vinader has become a non-executive director.<\/p>\n They said Picardo is \u201cperfectly placed to guide our next phase of growth\u201d and will work to accelerate the business\u2019s global reach, \u201cscaling innovation, inspiring existing and new audiences, and setting new standards for modern luxury jewellery\u201d.\n <\/p>\n \n Copyright \u00a9 2025 FashionNetwork.com All rights reserved.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 14, 2025 UK-based jeweller Monica Vinader has a new CEO with Sebastian Picardo now at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82173,712,2242,709,59,57,58,86511,86510,711,86509,710,50,713,86508,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-198776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-alexander-mcqueen","9":"tag-beauty","10":"tag-burberry","11":"tag-fashion","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-greatbritain","15":"tag-holt-renfrew","16":"tag-lane-crawford","17":"tag-luxury","18":"tag-net-a-porter","19":"tag-network","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-professionals","22":"tag-sebastian","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}