Maëlle Gavet

Maëlle Gavet (born May 22, 1978) is a French businesswoman, author, and entrepreneur.[1][2]

Maelle Gavet
Born (1978-05-22) May 22, 1978
Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
OccupationCEO of Techstars
Known forOzon.ru, Priceline,
Compass, Inc.
Board member ofEdenred

Birth and education

Gavet was born in the Paris region of Boulogne-Billancourt, France in a “lower middle class” home.[2] She started her first business organizing children's birthday parties in the Paris suburbs when she was 16.[3] She studied Russian language in school in order to increase her chance to get into an elite college.[3]

In 2000 she graduated from the Sorbonne, in 2002, from the Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris, and in 2003, from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lettres et Sciences humaines. Gavet speaks French, Russian and English.[3]

Career

After college, Gavet joined the Boston Consulting Group and worked there from 2003 to 2009.[2] She left there as a principal, having lived in France, UK, India and South Africa.

In 2009, Gavet joined OZON.ru, "The Amazon.com of Russia," as Sales and Marketing Director. She was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of OZON Holdings in July 2011, Russia's e-commerce business.[2] Gavet led the company through two rounds of funding, 2011 ($100 Million) and 2014 ($150 Million). In February 2012 Gavet led OZON to acquire Sapato.ru, Russia's online shoe and accessory retailer. In May 2014, OZON acquired a stake in the Russian eBook distribution platform, LitRes.ru.

Gavet then joined The Priceline Group in June 2015 as executive vice president of Global Operations.[4]

In 2017, following the abrupt departure of CEO Darren Houston, Gavet joined Compass Inc in January 2017 as COO.[5] In September 2019, Gavet publicly announced she will leave Compass Inc in October 2019.[6] She left due to strategic differences with CEO Robert Reffkin.[1]

After leaving Compass, Gavet wrote a book about technology and empathy that was published in 2020.[2] She is also raising money from investors to buy a technology company.[2]

Mentions

Gavet entered into several international ratings, including one called "The world’s most powerful women — Women to watch", made by Forbes.[7] She also took 10th place out of 100 in a list of "Most creative people in business" by Fast Company[8] and 26th place in rating 40 under 40 by Fortune.

She has been ranked as one of the top 100 French young leaders by Le Figaro and Choiseul 100:

  • In 2014 she was ranked #96
  • In 2015 she was ranked #39 [9]
  • In 2016 she was ranked #4 [10]

In 2014 she was listed fifth among Times Magazine's List of The Top 25 Female Techpreneurs.

In 2015 she was listed as one of 50 most powerful tech women in Europe by Inspiring 50 and the European Commission.[11]

In 2016 she was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.[12]

References
  1. Kusisto, Katherine Clarke and Laura. "SoftBank-Backed Real Estate Broker Compass Hit by High-Level Exits". WSJ. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  2. Weinberg, Cory (2019-11-25). "On the Market: Veterans of Airbnb, SoftBank, Facebook and Microsoft". The Information. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  3. Chafkin, Max (2012-08-08). "Is This The Jeff Bezos Of Russia?". Fast Company. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  4. "Why This Top Priceline Executive Just Quit Her Job". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  5. "Maelle Gavet is the new COO at real estate startup Compass". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  6. "Compass' COO Maëlle Gavet set to leave company next week". Inman. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  7. Women to watch. Forbes. forbes.com. (2012)
  8. 100 most creative people in business. Fast Company.. fastcompany.com (2012)
  9. Les 100 nouveaux leaders de l'économie française
  10. "Choiseul-Le Figaro 100 2016". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  11. Meet The Fifty Most Inspiring Women In European Tech Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
  12. YGL 2016
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