Gatien Gillon

Gatien Gillon is the Chief Executive Officer of CWS, a pan-european Leader in Washroom, Hygiene and Environmental Services. He is based in London. Prior to that he was the Group COO of Rubix, Europe's largest distributor of industrial maintenance and repair products. Gatien started his career as a consultant at McKinsey in 2005, before launching his own business process outsourcing company, later sold to ATOS. Following the sale of that company, he joined PE firm Bain Capital as Vice President in 2012, where he was in charge of improving operating performances of portfolio companies. In 2014, Gatien joined one of Bain Capital’s portfolio companies, Verisure, as Group Director in charge of Innovation, Products and Digital.

In his role as Strada Fellow, Gatien will be the go-to person for guidance on operational excellence, business processes and innovation & digitalisation.