Carole Pretty

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Carole Hübscher Clements (born April 16, 1967 ; resident in Thayngen ) is a Swiss entrepreneur . She has been the managing director of the Geneva colored pencil and stationery manufacturer Caran d'Ache since 2012 and is the fourth generation to manage the company. She also holds board mandates at Mobiliar and the precious metals specialist Cendres + Métaux. Hübscher is married and has three children.

career

Hübscher graduated from the hotel management school in Geneva and initially worked in a hotel. In order to gain international experience, she then worked for the Caran d'Ache wholesaler in the USA for two years . After returning to Switzerland, she started working in the international sales department of Caran d'Ache.

In 1997, Hübscher went back to the USA and studied at Harvard Business School . She said about this training in 2012: “The work was very specific. We regularly had to work out solutions for specific cases from one day to the other. It was very intense, six days a week, but thrilling. Above all, there were encounters with people from all over the world, from different industries, often of very different kinds, with diverse experiences from which we could all learn. "

After returning to Switzerland, she was involved in building up the Calvin Klein watch brand . She later worked for the Swiss watch company Swatch for several years and was in charge of international marketing for the Calvin Klein watch brand.

Hübscher had been on the Board of Directors of Caran d'Ache since 2002 , and her father had prepared her to take over management since 2007. When asked whether it would be difficult for a woman to succeed as the successor to three men, she said no in an interview in 2012: “When I was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors a few months ago, I received a touching message from the women in the company : You are so proud to see one of them on the management board. " Hübscher claims to be involved in promoting women in business, but is an opponent of women's quotas.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caran d'Ache appoints Carole Hubscher as boss. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 31, 2012, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Florence Vuichard: Caran d'Ache: Everything in hand. In: Balance . June 26, 2018, accessed November 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b In Conversation with: Carole Hübscher. In: Perspectives Pictet. August 19, 2016, accessed November 16, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b Marie-France Rigataux: Carole Hubscher à la tête de Caran d'Ache. In: femina.ch. September 12, 2012, accessed November 16, 2018 (French).
  5. ^ Gary Engelbrecht: Caran d'Ache's director Carole Hubscher. In: Geneva Business News. January 9, 2018, accessed November 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pretty, Carole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pretty Clements, Carole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1967