Meet Cyrille Vigneron, the CEO of luxury jeweler Cartier who personally approves all of its designs

Talia LakritzFeb 21, 2024, 02:51 IST

Cyrille Vigneron speaks at the Cartier Glory To The Filmmaker Award Ceremony in 2023 in Venice, Italy.Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

Cyrille Vigneron has served as president and CEO of Cartier since 2016.
He helped build the brand, known for its jewelry, into the second-largest watchmaker behind Rolex.

Founded in Paris in 1847, jeweler and watchmaker Cartier caters to a high-end clientele of royals, celebrities, and anyone seeking a quiet status symbol.

As the president and CEO of Cartier International, Cyrille Vigneron helped transform the once-struggling brand into the second-largest Swiss watchmaker in the world.

Here are seven things you might not have known about the CEO of Cartier.

Vigneron earned a degree in business administration from ESCP Paris in 1982.

Cyrille Vigneron, CEO of Cartier, in 2019.Gisela Schober/Getty Images for Cartier

He began working for Cartier's parent company, Richemont, in 1988.

Cyrille Vigneron (center) at a Cartier event in 2006.Serge Benhamou/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

As president and CEO of Cartier, he helped reinvigorate the brand with new strategies.

Cyrille Vigneron speaks onstage during at a press conference in Milan, Italy, in 2020.Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Cartier

Vigneron has also spearheaded social responsibility initiatives.

Cyrille Vigneron presents the launch of the first worldwide itinerant competition for women orchestra conductors, known as MAWOMA, in 2019 in Paris, France.Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images for Mawoma

He personally approves all of Cartier's designs.

Cartier watches on display.Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Vigneron is active on LinkedIn with over 111,000 followers.

Cyrille Vigneron speaks onstage in 2021.Daniele Venturelli/WireImage/Getty Images

He is married and has four children.

Cyrille Vigneron and his family at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2023.Daniele Venturelli/WireImage/Getty Images

I visited Aéropostale as an adult. Not much has changed since I was a teen, but I'm not sure that's a good thing.

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