Executive leadership team
  • Alexander Lacik
    Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
    Alexander Lacik
    Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
    Alexander Lacik has been CEO of Pandora since April 2019. He is a member of the Executive Management and Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

    Alexander has more than 25 years of leadership experience from large global consumer goods companies. Before joining Pandora, he was the CEO at childcare company Britax. Prior to that, he headed Reckitt Benckiser’s North American business and held international leadership positions at Procter & Gamble.

    He has worked in the US, Europe and Scandinavia and led strategic international expansions delivering strong revenue gains.

    Alexander is Swedish and has a Bachelor in Business Administration from Växjo University, Sweden.

  • Anders Boyer
    Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
    Anders Boyer
    Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
    Anders Boyer has been the CFO of Pandora since August 2018. He is a member of the Executive Management and Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

    Anders has 20 years’ experience as CFO of large global companies across among others retail (Pandora), chemicals (Hempel) and medtech (GN Store Nord). His focus throughout the career has been turnarounds and transformations.

    Anders is Danish and has a Master of Science in Finance and Accounting from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

  • Byron Clayton
    Chief HR Officer (CHRO)
    Byron Clayton
    Chief HR Officer (CHRO)
    Byron Clayton has been the CHRO of Pandora since February 2023. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

    Byron has an extensive global track record and operational experience from some of Pandora’s key markets. He joined Pandora from a position as Deputy Chief People Officer at IKEA, supporting their global retail workforce and has held HR leadership positions at Nokia, Microsoft, Maersk, AstraZeneca, and Mercer.

    Byron is a US citizen whose career has taken him around the world. He has lived and worked in the US, Singapore, Thailand, Finland, Denmark and the UK.

    He holds a master’s degree in strategy and leadership from London Business School and bachelor’s degrees in human resources and psychology from the University of North Texas.

  • Mary Carmen Gasco-Buisson
    Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
    Mary Carmen Gasco-Buisson
    Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
    Mary Carmen Gasco-Buisson has been the CMO of Pandora since October 2022. She is a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

    Mary Carmen has more than 25 years of experience in leadership and in building and expanding global brands across FMCG and Prestige Beauty categories. Before joining Pandora, she led the turnaround of the iconic Axe / Lynx brand at Unilever and held several international positions at Procter & Gamble across North America and Europe.

    Mary Carmen has a strong track record of delivering successful business transformations, accelerating global brand growth, and building winning team cultures.

    Mary Carmen is a Dominican Republic-born United States and Spanish national. She has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the Williams College of Business.

     
  • David Walmsley
    Chief Digital & Technology Officer (CDTO)
    David Walmsley
    Chief Digital & Technology Officer (CDTO)
    David Walmsley joined Pandora in April 2019 and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

    David has 25 years’ experience building and scaling digital consumer businesses in publishing and retail, including House of Fraser, John Lewis and Marks and Spencer.

    He has led digital marketing teams, engineering and product teams, and world-class data and analytics functions, always putting the customer at the heart of the digital story. At Pandora, David is leading the global digital transformation of the business.

    David is English and has a Master’s Degree in History from University of Cambridge, England. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

  • Stephen Fairchild
    Chief Product Officer (CPO)
    Stephen Fairchild
    Chief Product Officer (CPO)
    Stephen Fairchild has been the CPO of Pandora since November 2011. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

    Stephen has 35 years’ experience from a variety of globally-known retail and fashion companies, including Mexx, Valentino, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, where he has held design leadership roles.

    He is the passionate creator behind Pandora’s innovative product design, and with the creative team he finds inspiration in art, nature, music, films and cultural trends around the world.

    Stephen is American and has a Bachelor of Arts from Wake Forest University, North Carolina.

  • Jeerasage Puranasamriddhi
    Chief Supply Officer (CSO)
    Jeerasage Puranasamriddhi
    Chief Supply Officer (CSO)
    Jeerasage Puranasamriddhi has been the CSO of Pandora since June 2020. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

    Jeerasage has been leading, for over 12 years, the manufacturing operations of one of the world’s leading fashion jewelry brands both in Thailand and Vietnam.

    Prior joining the jewelry industry, for over twenty years, he has been leading supply chain and large mass production operations, in the watch industry for various multi-national companies across Switzerland, USA, Hong Kong SAR, China and Thailand.

    Jeerasage is Thai and has a Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering, Chulalongkorn University of Thailand and an Ex-MBA, Thammasat University of Thailand.

  • Massimo Basei
    Chief of Retail Operations (CRO)
    Massimo Basei
    Chief of Retail Operations (CRO)
    Massimo Basei is the Chief of Retail Operations (CRO) and has been with Pandora since July 2010.

    Massimo joined Pandora as country manager for Italy in 2010. Since then, he has successfully taken on additional responsibility to lead commercial operations across all Pandora’s markets in Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa (SEMEA). As CRO, Massimo is responsible for global retail operations which encompasses network expansion, franchise relations, omni-channel experience, store development, and global merchandising.

     

    Massimo is Italian and holds an M.Sc. in economics from Università degli Studi di Trieste.