With over 30 years experience, François Arpels has acquired unique expertise in the luxury goods
and jewellery industry, helping to define global strategies and execute projects for numerous brands
over the years in the United States, India, Italy and France, where he has lived.
François Arpels has been CEO of Korloff since October 2023, an independent French jewellery house
to which he brings invaluable expertise, which he has already repositioned and modernized,
enabling it to accelerate its development.
François Arpels began his career in 1988 with Van Cleef & Arpels in Paris and New York, the jewellery
house owned by his family. Following its sale to Richemont in 2000, he turned his professional career
towards defining and then executing global strategies in a shadow management model for
companies in the luxury goods and retail sectors, particularly in jewellery, which led him to
implement equity transactions with private equity funds and family offices. In this part of his career,
he advised several luxury companies and brands like Mattioli, Naga Brands, Cindy Chao, Ivar, Skin Inc,
L.Capital, and many others.