Uche Pézard, CEO of Luxe Corp Group and Founder & Chief Curator of Luxury Connect Africa is a veteran Luxury Business Strategist, Consultant, Author, Entrepreneur & Investor with an impressive 17-year track record in the luxury industry. She is recognized worldwide as a pioneer luxury business strategist and opinion leader and one of a handful of industry experts to have successfully overseen multi-million-dollar business projects in over 50 countries on 6 continents.

Her impressive career achievements include becoming the first female of African descent to head a French luxury company in 2015 when she was named the CEO of Luxe Corp Group, the pioneer luxury business strategy & management company with a footprint in over 50 countries, which she had co-founded in 2007. With insightful business vision, a strong creative talent and a rare capacity to pull brands together, she has collaborated closely with the world’s most renowned luxury companies including Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermes, Gucci, Cartier, Dior, Giorgio Armani, Valentino, Piaget, Chopard, Boucheron, Van Cleef & Arpels, Moet & Chandon, Perrier Jouet etc. Her expertise in taking brands to elevated growth through strategic business & creative solutions is well documented.

Uche’s accolades include the creation of Club e-Luxe in 2007, the pioneer digital luxury hub that congregated hundreds of luxury brands in Paris annually for 8 years, & one of the most important platforms that defined the digital direction of the luxury industry in its first decade. She has addressed industry heavyweights through memorable keynotes at more than 50 events including the Conde Nast International Luxury Conference, International New York Times Luxury Conference, American Express Luxury Summit, Goldman Sachs Luxury Forum, China Luxury Summit, Harvard Business School, ESSEC Paris, London Business School, IE Madrid etc.

Uche has also acted as a Guest Editor & Contributor of the Harvard Business Review & Journal of Brand Management; and has been featured in Vogue, Elle, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Economist, FT etc. She is the Author of two bestselling books, Luxury Fashion Banding (2007); and Luxury Online (2010 & 2011).

A visionary leader & multilingual fluent in 5 languages, she has a rare talent for blending business, creativity, media, innovation & culture. She's on the board of several entities & an Honorary Fellow of American Luxury Marketing Council.