Jérôme Cochet was born in Hanover in 1978. He studied business administration at the University of Bayreuth and at the ESCP-EAP Business School in Paris, Oxford and Berlin and graduated in 2003 with a diploma in business administration, Master of Science and Diplôme de Grande Ecole. In 2007, he also completed his MBA at the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD). He started his career in 2004 at Bombardier. From 2007 to 2011 he worked for McKinsey & Company. In 2011, Jérôme Cochet joined Zalando. In 2015 he founded Zalando Marketing Services which he ran as its Managing Director. Since 2018, he works at dunnhumby, a customer data science and consulting company, as Chief Solutions Officer. Jérôme Cochet has been a member of the Supervisory Board since the establishment of SHOP APOTHEKE EUROPE in 2016.