Robert Gentz

Robert Gentz possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply elite background in advanced business administration, complex e-commerce logistics, and massive-scale digital venture building. Having successfully graduated from the incredibly prestigious WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and operating as a fiercely capable entrepreneur who had previously survived a failed social network startup in Latin America, this intensely resilient foundation provided the exact commercial mastery required to successfully pioneer the incredibly massive Zalando platform.

Robert Gentz is a fiercely visionary German e-commerce entrepreneur, highly strategic digital architect, and the profoundly influential Co-CEO and co-founder fundamentally responsible for architecting the massively dominant Zalando fashion empire. Operating as an incredibly talented WHU graduate alongside David Schneider, Gentz aggressively recognized the massive, completely untapped potential of aggressively replicating the Zappos online shoe-retail model across the highly fragmented European market. In 2008, heavily backed by the highly aggressive Samwer brothers (Rocket Internet), he relentlessly launched Zalando from an apartment in Berlin. By fiercely pioneering incredibly advanced, highly automated logistics pipelines and offering unprecedented free shipping and returns, his absolutely rigorous strategic leadership completely revolutionized European fashion retail. His massive corporate execution permanently established Zalando as an absolute multi-billion dollar e-commerce monopoly.