Founded in the Seventies, when fashion designer and entrepreneur Roberto Cavalli launched the brand, the label has recently seen a rapid growth in the region. Effective from 1st December Ivan Perra reports directly to the CEO regarding the region. Prior to this new role, Ivan Perra was Business Development Director APAC leading both wholesale and retail expansion in the region.
Ivan has spent 12 years in the region. He started his career in Retail for Kartell opening and managing the first 2 stores in HK in 2006; to later move to Lanificio F.lli Cerruti dal 1881 as Regional Sales Manager (APAC and North Asia) with focus on B2B and MtM markets.
After 6 years in Cerruti Ivan took over a new challenge as Area Manager of Cote&Ciel (Parisian premium accessory brand) starting retail and wholesale development for the brand in Asia that now counts more than 10 mono-brand boutiques among Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Japan and China.
Before joining Roberto Cavalli Ivan spent 3 years in charge of Business Development for the French Maison Kenzo (LVMH group) opening over 70 mono-brand stores in the region and in charge of over 120 POS.
Ivan takes up this new role with a series of brand activations in the pipeline to strengthen the brand positioning in the region.