Congratulations to Dana Gers, Laura Walsh, and the entire Lumens.com team! We're so excited about this CMO placement.
Lumens, the premier online destination for luxury home design, announces the appointment of Dana Gers as Chief Marketing Officer. Reporting to CEO Laura Walsh, Gers brings extensive experience leading DTC, luxury fashion, and retail to the position and will oversee the company’s growing e-commerce and full-stack marketing as it expands its North American presence. “Dana’s extensive background in luxury retail makes her an exceptional fit as our CMO, especially as we continue to pursue our strategy of becoming the preferred resource for luxury design aficionados and the architecture and design trade,” says CEO Laura Walsh of Gers’ hiring. “Her strength in brand strategy, digital marketing, and team leadership, combined with in-depth experience developing marketing programs to drive sales, customer acquisition, and retention, will be pivotal as we continue to elevate our brand and scale our business.” Gers, a marketing veteran of online luxury fashion retailer Net-A-Porter, will apply her experience to Lumens’ marketplace model, where more than 425 high-end home design brands are sold. In addition to Net-A-Porter, Gers’ storied career includes marketing leadership positions at Aritzia, Jimmy Choo, Ferragamo, and Baccarat. “I’m delighted to be joining the exceptional team at Lumens,” says Gers. “I’ve always harbored a passion for home design and interiors, and I look forward to bringing my experience leading digital-first marketing and brand building to the design sector. This couldn’t be a more exciting time to join the company and collaborate with such inspiring leadership.” Gers has been named the most powerful luxury communications professional in the UK by PRWeek magazine three times. She has also served as a featured speaker at the Harvard Business School Retail and Luxury Goods Conference, the Forbes Magazine Luxury Conference, the Yale Center for Customer Insights School of Management Luxury Marketing Conference, and DLD Women. A design and interiors superfan, Gers has pursued certificate programs at the New York School of Interior Design and the UCLA School of Architecture and Interior Design. Welcome, Dana!
💙 We loved working with the team at Lumens (shout out to Laura Walsh and Suzan Davis). Between their unwavering attention to the candidate experience and partnership with us, hiring Dana Gers was a dream. 💙 Congratulations to both!
Congrats Team Bolster and Lumens!
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