Catherine Rénier is a French luxury executive and the president and chief executive of Van Cleef & Arpels. She holds a master of business administration from Boston College, and has spent her whole career, more than 25 years, with Richemont.
She joined the group in 1999 in New York as retail development director of Cartier North America. In 2003 she moved to Paris as deputy marketing manager of Van Cleef & Arpels, which Richemont had recently bought, and contributed to its development. In 2008 she moved to Hong Kong to support its growth in Asia-Pacific, first as commercial director, then from 2011 as managing director for Hong Kong and Macau, and finally as president for Asia-Pacific, a post she held for eight years.
In 2018 she became chief executive of Jaeger-LeCoultre, where, Richemont said, she built a strong leadership team and enriched the manufacture's identity; she has described much of her work there as nurturing and preserving its crafts and making them visible to the public. In 2024, when Nicolas Bos became group chief executive of Richemont, he chose her to succeed him at Van Cleef & Arpels from 1 September 2024, reporting to him, and Jérôme Lambert returned to lead Jaeger-LeCoultre from January 2025. She has said the two houses share a love of heritage, a respect for their past and "a very humble creativity", and has cited Van Cleef & Arpels' enamelling department and its own school for training artisans as examples of protecting craftsmanship.
Casadi has not verified her date of birth. English Wikipedia's Jaeger-LeCoultre article dates her departure to the end of 2024; Richemont gives 1 September 2024 for her Van Cleef & Arpels start.