Lanciaux quits LVMH

Concetta Lanciaux, LVMH's long term director of human resources, will quit the luxury group to set up her own consultancy firm in March. The group announced that Chantal Gaemperlé will take over from her. She will also become a member of LVMH's executive committee. Gaemperlé was former head of corporate management development and sourcing at Nestlé, and prior to that, she was HR director for investment bank Merrill Lynch in Switzerland .

LVMH chairman and chief executive Bermard Arnault heralded the arrival of Gaemperlé and also spoke of Lanciaux's "exceptional" work over the past 20 years and wished her success with her new firm. Although details of that enterprise are not yet known, Groupe Arnault will be one of its clients.

At LVMH, Lanciaux was a key adviser to Arnault as executive vice president of synergies. She was responsible for internal communications and was the founder and head of the group's internal university LVMH House. With a PhD in philosophy and and an MBA in industrial administration, Lanciaux was instrumental in the hiring of designers like Michael Kors at Celine and Antonio Marras at Kenzo and of executives like Sidney Toledano at Christian Dior and Yves Carcelle at Louis Vuitton.