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GoodwillFinds.comChief Technology Officer
Oct. 2022Greater Tampa Bay Area · RemoteGoodwillFinds — the new resale marketplace from nonprofit thrift store chain Goodwill — has added online marketplace veteran Nicolas Genest its C-suite and onboarded 14 new Goodwill member organizations representing more than 50 retail stores to the platform. It reached $30MM in sales in its very first year of existence. Launched in October 2022, GoodwillFinds aims to bring the 120-year-old Goodwill mission and thrifting experience to digital shoppers. In a little over 12 months, the platform already has sold nearly 1 million items, and with more Goodwill member organizations coming on board, it plans to scale the number of items available.
CodeBoxxPresident
Jan. 2022 - Mar. 2024Sausalito, California, United States
Full HarvestChief Technology Officer
Dec. 2021 - Feb. 2024San Francisco Bay Area · HybridGoing full circle as the oldest sibling of a sixth-generation family farm after opting for a career in technology, Nicolas joins Full Harvest at the critical time technology will power the next phase of their growth. Nicolas owns digital product and technology and leverages the latest and greatest in the cloud to plan, build and run the digital experiences of all current and future customers of the marketplace. The Full Harvest marketplace helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market. The B2B platform is connecting farms to various food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste. Approx. 20 billion pounds of produce go to waste in the U.S. annually simply because they are not perfectly shaped for strict retailer standards. Full Harvest aims to solve this problem with the marketplace for this unutilized edible and valuable produce. The vision is three-fold: bring additional revenue stream to farmers, lower the cost of healthy food production, while significantly reducing wasted food and resources.
ZELIGChief Technology Officer
May. 2021 - Sep. 2022Los Angeles, California, United States · HybridAs Co-Founder and CTO of stealth startup Zelig, Nicolas conceived an entire ecosystem to stream fashion in the Metaverse. He led a team of 21 high profile developers, technologists and researchers in the design and implementation of a platform relying on three main pillars allowing to create, distribute and monetize content across a multiplicity of experiences leveraging dematerialized luxury and fashion assets. Among the tree pillars of the proposed ecosystem the digital identity management was revolutionary because it allowed for the most realistic and data-driven representation of individuals online called the digital twin. The dematerialized catalog was also a groundbreaking innovation allowing to collect, store and stream all the necessary metadata defining a luxury item to power 2D as well as 3D experiences in virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality settings.
CodeBoxxChief Executive Officer - Founder
Apr. 2018 - Apr. 2022Sausalito, California, United StatesCodeBoxx Technology has campuses deployed in Tampa Bay, Philadelphia, Montreal and Quebec City all turning individuals from various backgrounds into Digital Age developers. Our technology fellowship produces truly skilled and trained individuals to be hired by enterprises that are members of our Partner Circle. CodeBoxx guarantees employment to graduates and the ecosystem built around our community is there way beyond the end of the boot camp to assist its members at clutch time in their careers. CodeBoxx through the Digital Workshop realized digital transformation projects for a multitude of customers in the United States, France and Canada. CodeBoxx is specialized in the fields of Data Science, Commerce and has developed an expertise in delivering time-sensitive or budget-constrained digital transformations.
Walmart eCommerceChief Technology Officer - Digitally Native Vertical Brands
Mar. 2017 - Jul. 2018San Francisco, CaliforniaWithin Walmart's Altitude Division (Regrouping all Digitally Native Vertical Brands owned by Walmart) Nicolas secured the transition from Modcloth as an independent company to Modcloth as a subsidiary of Walmart eCommerce. Successfully led the Acceleration project and went on as an advisor to Altitude across various strategic assignments. Authored a Global eCommerce Blueprint destined to serve as a platform to preserve vertical brands' DNA while leveraging the competitive advantage tied to Walmart's ability to scale. The platform is meant to streamline integration of newly acquired brands or streamline the inception of new ones created out of thin air.
ModClothChief Technology Officer
May. 2016 - Jul. 2018San FranciscoDigitally-native lifestyle brand ModCloth announced the appointment of Nicolas Genest as chief technology officer (CTO). Mr. Genest joins ModCloth with over 15 years' experience building and leading engineering, product and data organizations across consumer, tech and online retail industries. Mr. Genest will be based in the company's San Francisco headquarters and report directly to ModCloth CEO Matthew A. Kaness. "Nicolas is an innovator and an accomplished technologist at creating revolutionary platforms that enable and quickly scale new business models. As ModCloth reimagines social commerce - online and offline - in the women's lifestyle retail industry, I'm confident his leadership will be an accelerant to our growth. I'm eager to partner with him," said Mr. Kaness. ModCloth is a digitally-native lifestyle brand committed to inspiring personal style and helping its community feel like the best version of themselves. ModCloth designs and sells its own exclusive line of apparel in a full range of sizes, and carries a unique assortment of fashion, accessories, shoes and home decor from hundreds of independent designers. Founded in a college dorm room by high school sweethearts Susan Gregg Koger and Eric Koger in 2002, ModCloth has since grown to over 350 employees across offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh. ModCloth investors include Accel Partners, First Round Capital, Floodgate, StubHub founder Jeff Fluhr, and Norwest Venture Partners.
Cloud Body CorporationFounder - CEO
Jul. 2015San Francisco Bay AreaCloud Body was founded to bring simplicity for people in their quest for a longer and healthier life. In the past eight years, technology unlocked tremendous possibilities to gather data and obtain better views into one's individual condition. As data started piling up coming from wearables and other connected devices, it is getting more and more complicated to understand what this data means for a unique individual. Strong with 20 years of advanced and rigorous research in the fields of weight loss and high perfromance training, CloudBody proposes algorithms developed to correct and interpret measurments captured by a vast range of devices and it transforms the raw data provided by major health and fitness partners into actionable insights into its member's health and general condition.
The RealRealChief Technology Officer
May. 2013 - May. 2016San Francisco Bay AreaAs Chief Technology Officer of The RealReal, the leader in online luxury consignment, a complete turnaround of the technology strategy has been performed as the company moved away from an outsourced model in 2013 to a fully-own custom-built platform that now powers all business units from leads generation and management to Inbound items processing to merchandising to commerce to outbound operations. Through the release and the several subsequent iterations of this integrated commerce and operations platform, Revenue grew from $12M in 2013 to $400M in 2016. - Owner of all Product, Engineering and IT Operations
- Led a team of 40 collaborators located on both the East and West Coasts
- Built a tailor-made information system on an Ruby on Rails Open Source Stack hosted in the Amazon Cloud
- Introduced a micro-services approach to deliver consistent product value across multiple experiences
- Re-designed, re-engineered and re-launched the entire mobile experience
- Built a team from zero transitioning out of an outsourced model
- Completed an re-launched an entire platform in two months re-enabling growth for the company
- Grew talented leaders now making a daily difference for the company The company also benefited from extensive Business Intelligence expertise and is now operating through a fully data-driven decision-making process powered by a powerful Data Warehouse and several analytics tool from Looker and Microsoft. Growth at The RealReal is fueled by operational and strategic reports allowing to pinpoint where the next area of improvement is and what product initiatives need to be considered in priority. The RealReal is changing the way people buy and sell luxury items. The leader in luxury resale, the company is a full service retailer offering customers authenticated, pre-owned, designer brands including Chanel, Hermes, Louis Vuitton , Gucci and Cartier.
vente-privee USAChief Technology Officer
Jan. 2012 - May. 2013New York CityNicolas Genest is Vice President of Technology and joined vente-privee USA from vente-privee.com where he was the CTO. He is responsible for ensuring the successful execution of vente-privee USA’s business mission through development and deployment of the company’s mobile and web presence.
vente-privee.comChief Technology Officer
Feb. 2011 - Jan. 2012Technology and software development at the IT department of vente-privee.com. 120 collaborators, $25MM IT Budget. - Technology and development for all vente-privee.com business models and solutions
- Engineering solutions for e-Commerce and Productivity Software Edition - Vendor Software integration and Partner Ecosystem management
- Enterprise Architecture and Information Systems Engineering
- Lead in Innovation through Technical and Business Research & Development teams
- Leader in Industrialized development platforms, Agile methodologies and Quality Assurance
vente-privee.comArchitecture, Quality & Innovation Director
Oct. 2007 - May. 2011Head of a service at the Information Systems Direction in charge of handling Architecture Services, Research and Development initiatives, Methodology and processes as well as Quality Assurance.
MicrosoftIT Engineer - BI and Development Platform
Oct. 2005 - Oct. 2007Business Intelligence and Data Specialized consulting
Pfizer FranceIT Consultant / Project Manager
Jun. 2004 - Sep. 2005Delivering strategic and critical internal web applications based on .NET technologies. In charge of the relationship with Pfizer EMEA subsidiaries.
Accor Services.NET Architect
Mar. 2002 - Jun. 2004.NET Architecture for Intranet Application
OpenlinksCo-Founder and Executive Partner
Jul. 1999 - Mar. 2003Quebec, CanadaFounder and co-owner of the enterprise providing business intelligence services to mid-sized enterprises in Quebec, Canada.
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