The outdoor brand has named Pierre Boccon-Liaudet and José Cledera to the posts of director of finance and director of operations for Europe. This follows the departure of vice-president of finance and operations, Sébastien Leroux.

Pierre Boccon-Liaudet

Pierre Boccon-Liaudet joined Quiksilver five years ago after having occupied various roles in finance at KPMG and Schlumberger in both Europe and Asia. At forty years old, he takes the lead of all the financial teams of Quiksilver Europe, as well as customer service and administration of sales.

José Cledera

José Cledera for his part will direct the teams for operations and IT for Quiksilver Europe. Before he arrived at the group as director of information systems in May 2007, he held positions for Motorola and Freescale in their departments of information technology and manufacturing.

By Jonathan Fulwell (Source: Matthieu Guinebault)