ChannelEngine announced that Ruben Stappers joins its management team as CFO, effective 1 November 2021.
ChannelEngine helps Brands, Retailers & Wholesalers to connect to marketplaces and other sales channels worldwide. Its clients include Bugaboo, Hunkemöller, Brabantia, Bosch, JDE, and Reckitt.
Stappers has 20 years of progressive finance experience, 12 of these at Royal Philips’ Lighting, Corporate, and Consumer Lifestyle divisions. In 2014 he was appointed as the global CFO at the Lifestyle Entertainment division, where he supported the carve-out, sale, and financial management of the business. As the CFO at ZALORA, he had a leading role in scaling the No.1 Fashion Marketplace of Southeast Asia from the startup phase to the IPO.
Most recently he acted as the COO at Supernova, a founder-led beauty and lifestyle D2C business, and CFO at Etaily, an e-commerce enabler in Southeast Asia.
Stappers said he was looking forward to supporting ChannelEngine on this journey and ensuring the company is well-financed in order to fuel this global expansion.
“It’s a very exciting time to join ChannelEngine and be part of laying the foundation towards exponential growth”.
