Jonathan Zrihen

In 1993, after graduating from the Institut Supérieur du Commerce de Paris (with a Master’s in International Business and Marketing), Jonathan joined the International Marketing Division of Clarins. A year later, he left for Australia where he was tasked with developing the Clarins brand. This first experience abroad as Sales Manager showed him the crucial importance of the “field”, where “you can find all the answers”.

This enriching experience opened up the doors to the Export Zone at Clarins head office, and he was appointed Export Director in 1996, working in close collaboration with Christian Courtin-Clarins, one of the company founder’s sons who was at that time President of the International Division. Supported by his teams, he strengthened the position of Clarins in numerous regions of the world including New Zealand, South Africa and of course Asia, a market with great cosmetic potential. It is in this region that he inaugurated and ran the first regional distribution unit based in Singapore. In 1999, he became President of the Asia-Pacific Region and accelerated the presence of the brands over the entire area, opening up the Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese markets. In the field, he continued to put into practice the philosophy of Jacques Courtin-Clarins: “We have millions of customers, but for us, every customer is unique”.

In 2004, Jonathan continued his international progression in the company. He was appointed President of the Canada subsidiary and three years later, became head of the US subsidiary where he faced an important challenge: establish Clarins as the benchmark brands in terms of product quality and the unique relationship it creates and maintains with their clients, and all this in a highly competitive environment.

In 2009, the expertise he successfully acquired on these two markets led to him being made President of North America, then the whole America zone in 2013. Nearly 10 years devoted to managing these subsidiaries gave him a real sense of team spirit, “to succeed, commitment drives performance”. A true team-player and faithful to the Clarins spirit, Jonathan is a strong believer in “people” as a vector of growth and, more and more every day, in Clarins motto, “do more, do better and enjoy doing so”.