Florence Bulte has been working in the luxury business for 19 years in Australia, Singapore and in the Middle East. Before joining the Chalhoub Group, she was VP of business Development for the Wellness Group in Singapore, developing markets for beauty, organic and natural products in the Middle-East and India.
She joined the Group in 2004 to manage the UAE “Art de vivre” retail business. In 2007, she was appointed in Qatar to oversee the Beauty retail business and then the Beauty retail business in the UAE, at this position she was running the expansion of L’Occitane, Molton Brown and the Group Own Beauty concept Faces retail network. In 2012, she took the position of General Manager for the Group “Art de Vivre” retail business, managing the development of the boutiques network in UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Egypt.
She is since 2015 the Head of Sustainable Engagement for the Group, defining and implementing the Group Sustainability Strategy and making sure it is embedded at all levels of the Group and in the 14 countries in which the Group operates;
She has graduated from EM Normandy Business School, Strathclyde University and INSEAD; She is a certified NLP practitioner and a Sustainability practitioner.
Greatly engaged in Humanitarian, she is a member of several associations and board member of “Tchendukua – Ici et Ailleurs” an NGO fighting to give back land to primitive civilization and protecting biodiversity in Columbia.