Vestiaire Collective Appoints New CPO and CTO to Drive AI Growth

Vestiaire Collective has named Thomas Hézard as chief product officer and Rémi Bouchez as chief technology officer, marking the first major leadership moves by CEO Bernard Osta since he took over the Paris-based luxury resale platform in October 2025. The appointments signal where Osta is placing his bets: deeper AI integration, a sharper user experience, and a hard push toward profitability before the year is out.

The dual hire is less a routine org-chart reshuffle than a declaration of strategic direction. Hézard steps into the CPO role to lead product development and own the consumer-facing experience on a marketplace that processed more than 2.3 million orders in 2023. Bouchez takes the CTO seat with a mandate to accelerate engineering and expand how artificial intelligence is deployed across Vestiaire's global infrastructure. Together, the two are expected to drive the platform's expansion into underpenetrated markets, with the United States identified as a priority.

Osta came to the CEO role from inside the company. He joined Vestiaire Collective as chief strategy officer in May 2021, moved to chief financial officer in September 2023, and took the top job in October 2025 following the departure of Maximilian Bittner, who had led the company for seven years. Bittner's exit was framed around strategic disagreement: he "had different views on the strategic path forward." Before Vestiaire, Osta spent fifteen years in investment banking, at Lazard from 2006 to 2011 and then Goldman Sachs through 2021, working out of New York and Paris.

His stated vision for the company leans hard into the resale-as-sustainability narrative. "Vestiaire Collective has secured a unique position as the ultimate trusted marketplace in the highly attractive pre-loved luxury fashion industry," Osta said at the time of his promotion. "Together, we will continue to transform fashion by giving a second life to the most desirable pieces, at the service of a more sustainable model."

The platform was founded in Paris in 2009 by two female entrepreneurs and has grown into one of the most recognized names in authenticated pre-owned luxury fashion. That reputation for authentication is precisely the kind of infrastructure that AI can strengthen, whether through smarter fraud detection, personalized discovery, or more efficient pricing signals. The specific AI initiatives Hézard and Bouchez will prioritize have not been publicly detailed, but the structural logic is clear: a CFO-turned-CEO who spent two decades pricing risk at Lazard and Goldman is not making these hires for optics. The 2026 profitability target is the operating constraint everything else runs through.